Jörg Edgar Bohlender is otolaryngologist and phoniatrician, subspecializing in laryngology, phonosurgery, disorders in professional voice users and swallowing disorders. Since 2008 he is Head of Phoniatrics and Speech Pathology, Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. Studies in history of arts, literature and dramatic theory in Berlin, Germany. He graduated from University Medical Schools in Münster, Erlangen and Charité Berlin, Germany. Since 12 years, he established annual multidisciplinary meetings with international speakers focusing on voice and swallowing disorders in Zurich. National and international publications.

Main focuses:

• Voice disorder diagnostics
• Phonosurgery
• Functional voice problems
• Elite vocal performers (singers, speakers, actors)
• History of Vocology

Activities:

• President of the Swiss Society of Dysphagie (SGD)
• President of the Swiss Society of Phoniatrics (SGP)
• Founder of the "Zurich Voice Conferences", "Zurich Dysphagia Conferences" and FEES courses
• Member of advisory board of journal “Sprache. Stimme. Gehör”