Izdebski, Krzysztof M.A., PhD. CCC. FASHA
		Dr. Izdebski, a founder and Chairman of Pacific Voice Conference, a yearly gathering of voice experts is an internationally recognized scientist and a voice-speech pathologist with interests in voice and head and neck pathophysiology leading to communicative and swallowing dysfunctions. He is also a founder and a Director of Pacific Voice and Speech Foundation a non-profit organization dedicated to voice and speech dysfunctions. (www.pvsf.org) He is a graduate of the University of Lund, Sweden; UCLA, and UCSF in the USA, where he was also a post-doctoral scholar. He was an invited visiting scholar at numerous European, Asian and South American leering institutions. For his contribution to the field of voice, Dr. Izdebski received numerous prestigious awards. Currently he in private practice and is also an Associate Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the University of California . He has authored close to 100 publications on voice and restoration of head and neck functions including Swallowing, prosthetics, etc. Dr. Izdebski also serves on ASHA Committees on Advanced Practices in Speech Pathology, and on Medical Speech Devices. He is on editorial boards of many professional journals and is an international Editor-in-Chief of the Phonoscope and an Editor-in-chief of online Journal of Occupational Voice and Speech Disorders. In 1994 he co-founded World Voice Consortium, Recently he was elected a Fellow of ASHA. He is also a publisher of traditional and electronic materials on voice and speech subjects. (www.bluetreepublishing.com) His current interests continue to involve phonatory movement disorders, occupational voice and speech disorders and medico-legal assessment and documentation of voice and speech. As a hobby he studies languages, collects cartographic material and works as a radio disc jockey on a California radio station. He is married with two children. 1975 - 1976 Principal Investigator, Neuromechanical Studies of Laryngeal Reaction Times. Earl C. Anthony Trust Fund for Graduate Research, U.C.S.F., and Chancellor’s Patent Fund, U.C.S.F. 1977 - 1982 Co-Principal Investigator, Acoustic and Physiologic Factors in Spastic Dysphonia, NIH. 1978 - 1979 Principal Investigator, Voice Fundamental Frequency Targeting and Control, REAC, U.C.S.F. 1977 - Present Chairman of the International Liaison of the International Association of Experimental Research in Singing.