Main topics:

• Voice as Medically Integrated and Transdisciplinary Phenomenon
• Spastic Dysphonia
  

Symposium President:  Santa Večerina Volić, Full ENT Professor, Zagreb School of Medicine, Chairman of Phoniatric Center, Zagreb, Croatia

Course directors:
Santa Večerina Volić, Irena Hočevar Boltežar, Krzysztof Izdebski and Ronald Ward

International faculty

• Krzysztof Izdebski: Department of Otololaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Voice and Swallowing Center, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, Chairman of Pacific Voice and Speech Foundation, San Francisco, California, USA
• Ronald Ward: Pacific Voice and Speech Foundation, San Francisco, California, USA
• Irena Hočevar Boltežar: Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Medical School, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Raul Cruz: Pacific Voice and Speech Foundation, Oakland, California, USA
  

10.00-11.00 Registration
11.00 –13.00 Opening Ceremony and Academy (Musical and Drama Program)
                     Promotion of DVD: Endoscopy of Singing Voice
13.00-14.00 Reception in the Lobby of Sheraton Hotel
14.30-15.15 Krzysztof Izdebski (San Francisico): Recent Advances in Voice Care
15.15-16.00 Ronald Ward and Krzysztof Izdebski (San Francisico): 
                      Phonosurgery and Beyond
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break, Commercial Exhibition
16.30 -17.15   Irena Hočevar Boltežar (Ljubljana): Professional Dysphonia
17.15- 18.00 Večerina Volić Santa (Zagreb): Degeneration and Regeneration of
                     Vocal Folds (Conservative Treatment and Phonosurgery)

8.00-8.30 Registration
8.30 – 9.15 Krzysztof Izdebski: Differential Diagnosis of Focal Laryngeal Movement
                   Disorders: Spasmodic Dysphonia vs Vocal Tremor vs Muscular Tension
                   Dysphonia
9.15-10.00 Ronald Ward and Krzysztof Izdebski: Techniques and Dosage of
                      Botox injections for Diverse Head and Neck Focal Dystonia
10.00-10.15 Coffee Break, Commercial Exibition

10.15-10.25 Krzysztof  Izdebski and Raul Cruz: Treatment of Tardive Dyskinesia- 
                      Video Presentation
10.25-11.15 Irena Hočevar Boltežar: Treatment Modalities, Voice Quality and Quality
                     of Life in Patients with Laryngeal Dystonia
11.15-11.30 Zlatko Papeš, Žarko Nikin, Krunoslav Troha, Slavko Kuljanac:
                      Development Possibility of Voice Diagnostics and Therapy with Software
                      Based Telemedicine’s Approach (Skype, Isabel, Polycom…)
11.30- 12.00 Coffee Break, Commercial Exhibition

12.00-14.00  Round Table: Complicated and Difficult Vocal System Impairment
                        (On Site Video-Stroboscopic Presentation- Exera Olympus, Kay)
Moderator: Santa Večerina Volić
Panelists: Krzysztof Izdebski, Ronald Ward, Irena Hočevar Boltežar, Smiljana Steiner Katušić, Đurđa Kovač, Lidija Horvat Dunjko, Behlul Brestovci, Baldo Mikulić, Neda Čurčić, Ana Dembitz, Tamara Živković Ivanović, Damir Torokić, Vesna Kirinić Papeš

Case Presentors: Ratko Prstačić, Tin Znaor, Tihana Ibrahimpašić 

14.00 Closing Ceremony