Program Highlights
50th Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice
June 2 – June 6, 2021
All Symposium Presentations will be virtual.

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Evolving Program 2021
- Wednesday, June 2:
- Tutorials: Anatomy and Physiology of Phonation, Production and Perception of Voice: An Overview
Linda Carroll, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow
David Eddins, PhD
Chuck Larson, PhD
Robert T. Sataloff, MD, DMA, FACS
Ronald Scherer, PhD, ASHA-F
Johan Sundberg, PhD
Sten Ternström, PhD
- Tutorials: Anatomy and Physiology of Phonation, Production and Perception of Voice: An Overview
- Thursday, June 3
- *Basic Science Sessions*
- Keynote Speech: On Vocal Loudness, Ingo Titze, PhD
- Quintana Award Lecture: The Modeling of Vocal Fold Vibration For A Few Clinically-Related Conditions, Jack Jiang, MD, PhD
- *Poster Sessions*: Medical, Basic Science, Speech-Language Pathology, Voice Pedagogy
- Special Session: Speech-Language Pathology
- Friday, June 4
- Special Session: Personality and the Voice
Moderator, Nancy Pearl Solomon, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA-F- Personality: Voice Patients Are Full of It – Nancy Pearl Solomon
- Models and Measures of Personality for Predicting Performance – Chris Patrick
- What’s Personality Got To Do with Voice Disorders? Uncovering Neurobiological Mechanisms – Miriam van Mersbergen
- Just Relax!? Negotiating Stress for Vocal Well-Being – Maria Dietrich
- Coffee Break – Exhibit Hall
- Personality in Children with Vocal Nodules: Why It Matters – Nelson Roy
- Both Speakers and Listeners Bring Personality to the Communication Table – Leah Helou
- Panel Discussion: Chris Patrick, Miriam van Mersbergen, Maria Dietrich, Nelson Roy, Leah Helou
- Van Lawrence Prize
- Young Laryngologists Study Group (Moderator, Thomas Carroll, MD)
- Vocal Workshops List | Abstract-Descriptions | Directions to Workshop Location
- Voices of Summer NOT-A-Gala, but something fun
- Special Session: Personality and the Voice
- Saturday, June 6
- *Medical Sessions*
- *Speech-Language Pathology Sessions*
- Award Announcements
- G. Paul Moore Lecture – Charles Larson, PhD
- Vocal Master Class – View here with Vladimir Chernov, baritone
- Sunday, June 7
- Medical Sessions
- Panel: The Art of the Medicine: MD Performers Caring for the Singing Voice
- Moderator: Thomas Carroll, MD, Paul Kwak, MD
Panelists: Thomas Carroll, MD, Lesley Childs, MD, Isabel Garcia-Lopez, MD, C. Kwang Sung, MD, David Young, MD - Panel: The Amateur Choral Singer as Patient
Brenda Smith, DMA, Moderator
Panelists: Karen Brunssen, BA, Linda Carroll, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA-F, Allen Henderson, DMA, Robert T. Sataloff, MD, DMA, FACS
- Panel: From Undergrad to DMA: The Path to Informed Voice Pedagogy
- Moderator, Allen Henderson, DMA (NATS)
- Panel: Lynn Helding, MM, Ian Howell, DMA, Kari Ragan, DMA
- *Voice Pedagogy Sessions*
SYMPOSIUM INDEX: ←All you need to know is found here