Talk Voice 2025: Associate Professor Anne Vertigan

Laryngeal symptoms and laryngopharyngeal reflux disease

Online

Sunday 19 October 09:30-11am GMT

This Talk Voice event will discuss recent developments in evaluation  and management of laryngeal symptoms including cough, voice change, throat clearing, excess throat phlegm and throat pain, and laryngopharyngeal reflux disease, or LPRD. The contribution of laryngeal hyperresponsiveness and laryngeal hypervigilance which commonly contribute to LPS and LPRD will be discussed.

TALK VOICE is an online lecture series about the speaking voice – how it works and what to do when it doesn’t: how it communicates, how to take care of it, how to enhance its performance and effectiveness. The Talk Voice series offers a range of presenters – providers of specialist therapy, treatment and surgery, vocal coaches, professional voice users and those who’ve suffered voice issues. Our speakers so far have included Mark Mardell, Polly Evans, Dr. Nikos Spantideas, Dr. Tom Harris, Barbara Houseman, D’Arcy Smith and many more.”

A/Prof Anne Vertigan is the manager of speech pathology for John Hunter Hospital in

Newcastle Australia, and Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle Australia. Anne’s clinical and research interests include voice disorders, chronic cough/VCD, laryngectomy and dysphagia. She is a researcher in the Asthma and Breathing program through the Hunter Medical Research Institute.