Faculty By Division

Laryngology

Division Chief: Dr. Edward Damrose, MD, FACS

Edward J. Damrose, MD, FACS
Professor of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery and, by courtesy, of Anesthesiology

Chief of Laryngology, Stanford Hospital Chief of Staff (2017–2020), Immediate Past Chief of Staff, Clinical Instructorship Director of Laryngology/Bronchoesophagology

Elizabeth DiRenzo, PhD
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery and, by courtesy, of Music
Brian Anthony Nuyen, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery
C. Kwang Sung, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery and, by courtesy, of Music
Philip Doyle, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery

Dr. Edward DamroseDr. C. Kwang SungDr. Elizabeth DiRenzo, and Brian Nuyen offer comprehensive evaluation and management of voice, breathing, and swallowing disorders at the Stanford Voice and Swallowing Center.

The Center specializes in the treatment of the following conditions and offer a full range of services and procedures:

  • Acoustic and aerodynamic analyses of voice
  • Airway reconstruction
  • Botulinum toxin injections
  • Cricotracheal resection
  • Cricopharyngeal muscle dysfunction
  • Cricopharyngeal myotomy – endoscopic and open
  • Dysphagia
  • Dysphonia
  • Electromyography
  • Endoscopic surgery for Zenker's diverticulum
  • Esophagoscopy
  • Flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing
  • Hoarseness
  • KTP laser treatment, in-office
  • Laryngeal cancer
  • Laryngoceles/saccular cysts
  • Laryngoscopy
  • Laryngotracheal stenosis
  • Professional voice
  • Paradoxical vocal fold motion
  • Professional voice care
  • Selective Laryngeal Adductor Denervation and Reinnervation (SLAD-R)
  • Speech-language pathology evaluation and voice therapy
  • Spasmodic dysphonia –botulinum toxin injections and surgery
  • Stroboscopy
  • Swallowing disorders
  • Thyroplasty
  • Tracheostomy
  • Tracheal resection
  • Transnasal esophagoscopy
  • Videofluoroscopic evaluation of swallowing (modified barium swallow study)
  • Videolaryngoscopy
  • Vocal cord cysts, nodules and polyps
  • Vocal cord or fold injection
  • Vocal cord or fold paralysis surgery
  • Vocal cord scarring
  • Vocal tremor
  • Voice and swallowing therapeutic exercises
  • Voice disorders, including behavioral and neurological disorders
  • Zenker's diverticulum