M.D., Ph.D., Prof.
Pieter Helbert Damsté, born 30 January 1925 at Bandung (Indonesia), from parents both of whom were outstanding amateur musicians as well as classical philologists. The first six weeks of his life he was called Piet subsequently his first name has been Helbert. Excelling in languages, but more interested in biology, Helbert decided to study medicine or rather human biology. Co-founder of the Student Humanist Movement at Utrecht in 1947. As a medical officer in the Dutch Air Force held his first lecture on a subject in aviation medicine. His interest in voice, speech and language pathology resulted in a dissertation, supervised by JW Van den Berg and E.Huizinga, on Oesophageal Voice in 1958, at the conclusion of his training in the specialty of ENT at Groningen.
As a co-founder of the first Cleft Palate team in the Netherlands, contributed to a series of tutorial articles on the management of short palate and related facial defects. Encouraged logopedists to team up with orthodontists for combined behavioural treatment of oral habits: thumb sucking, habitual mouth breathing, tongue thrust swallowing, and to engage in more intensive, body-oriented psychotherapy of stutterers. Chairman and advisor to support- and self-help groups of the laryngectomized and the stutterers.
Board member in scientific and professional societies, editor of national and international journals. Active on the Internet since five years, as author and publisher of an e-book, titled Concentric man: human systems of communication, adaptation and defence at www.damste.com. Nominated Officer in the Order of the Crown, Belgium and Officer in the Order of Oranje Nassau, the Netherlands.
1958. Larynx-stroboscopie. Ned Tijdschr. v. Geneesk. 102, p 1020-1022
11. 1959. Écueils de la restoration vocale des laryngectomisés. Annales d’Oto-Laryngologie 76, p 1083-109
32a 1964 De pathologie van spraak en stem. Film, 16 mm, color, duration 20 min. With W. de Vogel (producer) Stichting Film en Wetenschap; original tape on Ampex
36 1962 Congenital short palate without cleft. Proceed. XIIth Internat. Speech and Voice Therapy Conf. IALP Padua p. 496-502
45. 1966 Les vibrations des cordes vocales comparées aux vibrations des lèvres d’ un tromboniste. J. Franç. Otolar.et Chir Maxill., 1966 XV 395- 396 Video sur demande
49 1968 DAMSTE P. H., ZWAAN E. J. and SCHOENAKER Th. J. learning principles applied to the stuttering problem. - Folia Phoniatrica, 1968, XX, 327-341.
1968 WAAR C.H., DAMSTE PH.. Het Fonetogram. Logopedie en Foniatrie, 1968 XL 198-201
69 1970 The Phonetogram. Pract. Otolaryngol. 1970 XXXII 185-187
84 1972 Changes in the voice caused by drugs. Chapter 23 in Meyler: Drug-Induced Diseases. Excerpta Medica, Amsterdam
85 1972 - 1990 Book: Stotteren, een studie van onvrijwillig en vrijwillig gedrag. Bohn, Scheltema en Holkema,Haarlem 4th edition
108 1975 Book: with J Lerman. An Introduction to voice pathology. Charles Thomas, Springfield Illinois
179 1986 - 1994 Obstacles in learning oesophageal speech. A rehabilitation score-list of speech proficiency. Laryngectomy Rehabilitation. Edit.: RL Keith and FL Darley 2d edition, College Hill Press San Diego; Pro-Ed Austin Texas
193 1987-1997 Disorders of the voice. In: Scott Brown Handbook of Otolaryngology, John Hibbert edit. 6th edition. Vol V, Laryngology Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford
226 1999 CD ROM / Diskette: Concentric Man. The genetic, lymphoid, neural and linguistic systems of adaptation and defence. The complete book is published on the Internet and can be downloaded:
www.damste.com