MD, ScD, Prof.
Los Angeles, California
Education
Medical: Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
Specialty: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Professor of Biocommunications, University of Southern California
(Emeritus)
Medical Director, Institute of Laryngology and Voice Disorders
Consultant: United States Navy
Juilliard School of Music, New York
Federal Republic of Germany, etc.
Honorary Staff, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York
Curador, Universidade Moderna, Portugal
Scientific Contributions
Author or contributing author of 21 medical and legal textbooks and the
Encyclopedia Britannica
Author of 149 original scientific articles
Producer of 13 scientific motion pictures
Visiting Professor and Lecturer at Universities in the United States and
26 foreign countries
Scientific Awards and Honors
Recipient of 36 national and international awards for contributions to
medicine and science, including
Scientific Achievement Award, American Medical Association
Casselberry Award, American Laryngological Association
Gold Medal, Red Cross
Award of Honor, American Academy of Otolaryngology
Golden Award, International Federation of ORL Societies
Outstanding Civilian Consultant Award, U.S. Navy
Doctor honoris causa - Curador, Universidade Moderna, Portugal
Honorary member of 18 medical and scientific associations
Professional Societies
Past President, U.S. Section, International College of Surgeons
Past President, PanAmerican Association of Otorhinolaryngology
Past President & Chairman, Los Angeles County Medical Association
Honorary President, Collegium Medicorum Theatri
Decorations and Awards
United States, The Holy See, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland,
Portugal, Mexico, New Zealand, etc.
Revised: March, 2000
Essential Publications – Books
Revised: September 1997
Tracheotomy - Chapter VII of Ficarra’s Emergency Surgery, Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Go., 1953.
Preventitive Laryngology and Broncho-Esophagology - Chapter XXXI of Givner and Bruger’s The Prevention of Disease in Everyday Practice, St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Company, 1955.
Part 3 - The Pharynx, and Part 4 - the Larynx, of Ryan - Thornell - von Leden’s Synopsis of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Company, 1959.
The Pharynx - Chapter VII of part 5, Ear, Nose and Throat, in Vol. III of Cantor’s Traumatic Medicine and Surgery for the Attorney, London: Butterworth and Co., 1960.
Cryosurgery, by Rand, Rinfret, and von Leden, Springfield Ill.: Charles C. Thomas Co., 1968.
Cryogenics in Surgery, by von Led en and Cahan, Flushing, New York: Medical Examination Publishing Co., 1971.
Encyclopedia Britannica: Contributions.
Examenes Funcionales para El Estudio de La Patologia Vocal (Capitulo 6) and Fonocirugia (Capitulo 7), of Segre’s La Comunicacion Oral - Normal y_ Patologica, Buenos Aires, Paris and Barcelona: Torray y Masson, 1973.
The Throat - Chapter XB of Gray’s Attorney’s Textbook of Medicine, Vol. IA, New York: Matthew Bender, 1974.
Larynx - Measurement of Function, Chapter 41 in Harrison & Hinchcliffe’s Scientific Foundations of Otolaryngology, London: William Heinemann, 1976.
Kryochirurgie in der Otorhinolaryngologie, Chapter in Berendes, Link and Zollner’s Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde, Stuttgart: Thieme, .977.
Mucocele - Section Fifteen in Fraunfelder & Roy’s Current Ocular Therapy,, Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., 1.980.
The Singer and Actor as Patients of the Otolaryngologist, Chapter 25 in Instructional Courses, Johnson, Blitzer, Ossoff & Thomas (Editors), St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Co., 19$8.
The History of Phonosurgery - Chapter 2 in Phonosurgery, Ford and Bless (Editors), New York: Raven Press, 1991
The Cultural History of the Larynx and Voice - Chapter 2 in Voice Surgery, Gould, Sataloff and Spiegel (Editors), St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book, 1993
The History of Phonosurgery - Chapter 3 in Voice Surgery. Gould, Sataloff & Spiegel (Editors), St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book, 1993
The Aging Voice, with David M. Alessi, MD - Chapter 17 in Vocal Arts Medicine, Benninger, Jacobson & Johnson (Editors),
New York: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., 1994
The Discipline of Voice - A Historical. Perspective - with Donald S. Cooper, PhD - Chapter 1 of Organic Voice Disorders: Assessment and Treatment, Brown, Crary, Vinson (Editors), San Diego: Singular Publishing Group, Inc., 1955
A Cultural History of the Larynx and Voice - Chapter 2 and The History of Phonosurgery - Chapter 47 in Professional _Voice: The Science and Art of Clinical Care, Robert Thayer Sataloff (Editor), San Diego: Singular Publishing Group, Inc., 1997
A Cultural History of the Human Voice - Chapter 2 in Voice Perspectives, Robert Thayer Sataloff (Editor), San Diego: Singular Publishing Group, 1998