Sweden Peer Åke Lindestad Professional state . independent specialty of its own standing yes . official subspecialty to ENT no . official subspecialty to others no . number of university departments 6 . number of doctors working in the field around 15 10 full positions at hospitals among those “about 15” active and 4 retired, 10 have produced doctoral dissertations and two more are well on the way. . relevant web sites for links Under development Education and training . program and examination for specialization All present members are specialists also in ENT. There is a specified program for education in phoniatrics, independent of other specialties and approved of by the authorities. . phoniatrics in the frame of ENT, program and examination No formal requirement . postgraduate programs are not many but we are working on it. Mostly international courses. Research, main topics Voice, Cleft Palate Speech are the main areas. A full description requires too much time but basically, in the Voice area there are Roland Rydell and Lucyna Schalen in Lund, Hans Dotevall in Gothenburg, Stellan Hertegård, Per-Åke Lindestad and Riitta Ylitalo in Huddinge and Gunnar Björck at Karolinska, Stockholm. In cleft palate there are Hans Dotevall in Gothenburg and Stellan Hertegård in Huddinge who are engaged in research. . relevant web sites for links are none Associations . Scientific name: Swedish Association of Phoniatricians contact address: c/o dr Stellan Hertegard, Department of Logopedics and Phonatrics, Huddinge University Hospital, 14186 Huddinge, Sweden. . Professional name: Swedish Association of Phoniatricians contact address: See above . relevant web sites for links under development