Congresses
Congresses have been organized regularly all over Europe since 1971 to enforce scientific relations and promote the speciality of phoniatrics and the professional conditions of phoniatricians.
2018 XXIX
Helsinki, Finland
Congress president: Prof. Ahmed Geneid
Main topics:
- Phoniatrics: The medical specialty of communication and swallowing
2016 XXVIII
Bilbao, Spain
Congress president: Susana Ruiz and Ana Martínez - In cooperation with the annual meeting of the Spanish Medical Association of Phoniatrics (SOMEF)
Main topics:
- Phoniatrics and Communication
2014 XXVII
Moscow, Russia
Congress president: Ekaterina Osipenko - In cooperation with the annual meeting of the Phoniatricians Sections of the Russian Otorhinolaryngological Society
Main topics:
- Phoniatrics - An interdisciplinary speciality
2011 XXVI
Lund, Sweden
Congress president: Lucyna Schalen - In cooperation with the annual meeting of the Swedish Phoniatric Society
Main topics:
- Examination and treatment in phoniatrics, today and tomorrow
2008 XXV
Poznan, Poland
Congress president: Prof. Andrzej Obrebowski - In cooperation with the 3rd Conference of Phoniatric Section and Audiologic Section of the Polish Society of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and the 7th Conference Acoustics in Audiology and Phoniatrics
Main topics:
- Acoustics in Phoniatrics and Audiology
- Professional voice and hearing disorders
- Phonosurgery
2005 XXIV
Berlin, Germany
Congress president: M. Gross - In cooperation with the annual congress of the German Society of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology
Main topics:
- Genetics of communication
2003 XXIII
Toulouse, France
Congress president: Virginie Woisard - In cooperation with the European Study Group for Dysphagia and Globus, organized by the "Société Francaise de Phoniatrie"
Main topics:
- Around dysphagia dysarthria dysphonia
2001 XXII
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Congress president: W.Behrendt - In cooperation with the annual congress of the German Society of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology
Main topics:
- Language acquisition
- Sleep medicine
1999 XXI
Lucerne, Switzerland
Congress president: L. Giger
Main topics:
- Technical aids in phoniatrics
1997 XX
Budapest, Hungary
Congress president: L. Pataki
Main topics:
- Voice, speech and swallowing after surgery
- Hearing loss and its management including cochlear implant
- Singing voice
1996 IXX
Kreischa/Dresden, Germany
Congress president: J.-G. Heidelbach
Main topics:
- Postoperative dysphonia
- In cooperation with the annual congress of the German Society of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology
1993 XVIII
Prague, Czechia
Congress president: A. Novák
Main topics:
- Disfluency speech disorders
- Post-graduate Course
- Phoniatrics and linguistics
1991 XVII
Kiev, Ukrainia
Congress president: Y. St. Wasilenko
Main topics:
- Present-day aspects of phoniatric therapy
- Post-graduate Course
- Cooperation between Singing pedagogics and phoniatricians
1990 XVI
Salsomaggiore, Italy
Congress president: O. Schindler
Main topics:
- Aging and communication
- Post-graduate Course
- Non-verbal communication
1988 XV
Erlangen, Germany (FRG)
Congress president: G. Kittel
Main topics:
- Objective and semiobjective methods of examination
- Post-graduate Course
- Vibratory patterns of the vocal folds under pathological conditions
- Proposals for the 10th revision of the International Classification of
- Diseases and Injuries (ICD 10, WHO)
1987 XIV
Dresden, Germany (GDR)
Congress president: J.-G. Heidelbach
Main topics:
- Mistakes and risks of medical interventions with phoniatric consequences
- Post-graduate Course
- Morbidity, epidemiology and systematics in phoniatrics
1986 XIII
Vienna, Austria
Congress president: F. Frank
Main topics:
- Current essentials of endocrinology related to phoniatrics
- Post-graduate Course
- Optics in phoniatrics
1985 XII
Poznan, Poland
Congress president: A. Pruszewicz
Main topics:
- Phoniatric aspects in neurological and psychiatrc diagnoses
- Post-graduate Course
- The present state and developmental prospects of child audiology
1984 XI
Salamanca, Spain
Congress president: J. Perelló
Main topics:
- Relation between rehabilitation and phoniatrics
- Boundaries between psychology and phoniatrics
- Standardization of documentation of voice examination
1982 X
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Congress president: K. Sedlácek
Main topics:
- Speech development and its disorders
- Compensatory voice mechanism
- Post-graduate Course
- Speech development and its disorders
1981 IX
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Congress president: C.I.E. Jansen
Main topics:
- Phoneme discrimination, development and pathology in the child
- Aerodynamic measures in voice production
- Acute deterioration of the professional voice: phoniatric aspects
- Post-graduate Course
- Phonology
1979 VIII
Köszeg, Hungary
Congress president: J. Hirschberg
Main topics:
- Prevention, prophylaxis in phoniatrics
- Documentation in practice (endeavor to standardization)
- Hoarseness (definition, pathomechanism, classification, diagnosis, acoustic parameters)
- Phoniatric tasks in the complex care of cleft palate patients
1978 VII
Jyväskylä, Finland
Congress president: A. Sonninen
Main topics:
- Motor coordination of speech
- Baby cry
- Expert opinions in phoniatrics
- Audio-phoniatric centers
- Training in phoniatrics
1977 VI
Weimar, Germany (GDR)
Congress president: J. Wendler
Main topics:
- Phoniatrics in medical care
- The application of instruments in phoniatrics (a critical review)
- Expert opinions in phoniatrics
1976 V
Paris, France
Congress president: M. Yana
Main topics:
- After five years, results of our association
- Rehabilitation after accident or surgical treatment concerning the voice
- Promotion of phoniatrics
- Relations of the UEP with the societies concerned with audiophonology
1975 IV
Wroclaw, Poland
Congress president: L. Handzel
Main topics:
- Nature of phoniatrics
- Education of the phoniatrician
- Parameters of spectral analysis
- Informatics in phoniatrics
- Terminology of phoniatrics
- Acoustics of the perception process
- Acoustic of the expression process
1974 III
Padova, Italy
Congress president: L. Croatto
Main topics:
- Definition and present situation of logopedics
- Terminology of phoniatrics
- The training of the phoniatrician
- Definition and characteristics of phoniatrics
- The phoniatric team and its part in the rehabilitation of deaf children
1973 II
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Congress president: E. Sedlácková
Main topics:
- Terminology in phoniatrics
- Minimal staff and instrument equipment of a phoniatric department
- The education of the phoniatrician
- The parameters of apparatuses used in phoniatrics
- The historical development of phoniatrics
1972 I
Mainz, Germany (FRG)
Congress president: P. Biesalski
Main topics:
- Terminology in phoniatrics
- Definition, position, and developments of logopedics
- Instruments of the phoniatrician
- The education of the phoniatrician
- By-laws of the Union
- The audiological sphere of action of the phoniatrician
1971
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Congress president: D. Cvejic
Main topics:
- Foundation
- Definition of phoniatrics
- Board election