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For diagnostics and treatment of 'professional voice disorders', the voice team in Hamburg includes logopedists, trainers for classical singers and for contemporary commercial music, with a principal focus on musical theatre, acting voice therapists, singing voice therapists, psychologists, engineers, and healthcare professionals as required by the individual patient's needs.
Dr Markus Hess is Professor and Director of the Department of Voice, Speech and Hearing Disorders at the UKE Hamburg. He is a dedicated otolaryngologist and phoniatrician (a combination of speech-language pathologist and physician in one person), subspecializing in laryngology and disorders of professional voice users.
Voice Clinic
With his dedicated team and multidisciplinary approach, he has helped many top-level international singers, actors, public speakers and other performing artists.
Dr Hess is a recognized expert on care of the professional voice and is active in the regional, national and international field of voice diagnostics and treatment, including his speciality of phonosurgery.
A major feature of the Hamburg clinic is voice surgery in an office-based setting, i.e., so-called indirect surgery without general anesthesia.
The Department of Voice, Speech and Hearing disorders at UKE Hamburg has created a centre of excellence, including laryngeal microsurgery with cutting-edge, minimally invasive techniques.
As a specialist in laryngology, Dr. Hess holds a patent in LED illumination stroboscopy. His research focuses on assessment of laryngeal biomechanics, improvement of objective voice diagnostics and implementation of newest phonosurgical techniques.
He has also designed and developed phonosurgical instruments with a major medical instrument company.
Specialities
Treatments for singers, actors, public speaker and performing artists
| ■ | Phonosurgery (all techniques including thyroplasty and arytenoid adduction). |
| ■ | Office-based phonosurgery |
| ■ | Digital videostroboscopy |
| ■ | Computer-aided voice analysis |
| ■ | Spectrography |
| ■ | High speed imaging |
| ■ | Electroglottography |
| ■ | Voice range profile |
| ■ | Electromyography |
| ■ | Botulinum toxin injections |
| ■ | Laser technology (CO2, KTP) |
He has pioneered techniques to improve visualisation of vocal fold vibration, facilitate office-based laryngeal morphometry, establish objective voice assessment tools and intraoperative measurement of visco-elastic properties of the vocal folds.
For information on the University Medical Centre, Hamburg-Eppendorf, visit the UKE page.
University Medical Centre, Hamburg, Germany
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
International patients
All patients and their families are supported with translation service, airport shuttle, driver service and many other administrative services provided by the International Office of the UKE.
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Make an enquiry to UKE Hamburg. Your enquiry will be passed automatically to UKE, who will respond to you directly.
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