Annie Elias FRCSLT, Consultant SLT

Annie has spent a long career working with adults and children with voice disorders, first at The Royal London Hospital and then in Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. She leads the speech and language therapy voice team for KCHFT. Annie set up the Joint Voice Clinic in East Kent in the 1990’s and continues to lead this clinic with ENT Consultant colleagues. Early in her career Annie developed an interest in working psychologically with patients and collaborated with Peter Butcher then Clinical Psychologist at the Royal London and Lesley Cavalli, Speech and Language Therapist. Together they have presented and published in the area of psychogenic voice. Annie continues to support and supervise students and speech and language therapists specialising in voice. She enjoys sharing her skills and learning from others. She has contributed for many years to the voice teaching programmes at University College London and at Canterbury Christ Church and Greenwich Universities in Kent

Mr Nicholas Gibbins, ENT Consultant and Laryngologist

Nick Gibbins is a Consultant Otolaryngologist and Voice Surgeon at University Hospital Lewisham, London. He graduated from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, London in 1998 and was awarded the Registrar’s Gold Medal for research by the ENT Masterclass in 2011. He has been head and neck cancer lead and Clinical Director.He is a laryngologist and has a specialist interest in the diagnosis and treatment of all types of voice disorders, the management of the professional voice, vocal fold scars and sulci, and the biomechanics of the body that can affect both voice and swallow. He is Secretary of the British Laryngological Association and previous Vice-President of the European Laryngological Society.He has published widely, written many text-book chapters regarding the management of voice disorders and is editor for the Chapter about the Larynx for 43rd edition of Grays Anatomy. He is always in demand as a speaker, having given lectures to the Royal College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music and the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine to name a few. His passions include the evolution of the larynx, ensuring professional voice users know how to manage their voice, and what to do when it goes wrong.

Tori Burnay, Clinical Lead SLT

Tori is the Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist of the voice service at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals in London. Tori has a particular interest in the management of complex voice issues including neuro-laryngology and in working with professional voice users. She has been running an SLT-Led endoscopy clinic since 2005 and is an expert-level practitioner working with professional voice users of all genres, working collaboratively with BAPAM Vocal Rehabilitation Coaches and the wider MDT in the medical field and the arts. Tori is a guest lecturer on the MSc course at UCL. She chairs the Vocal Health Committee for The British Association for Performing Arts Medicine and was an integral member of the British Voice Association’s Education Working Party for 9 years. She is a BAPAM registered practitioner and runs a busy independent practice where she works with recording artists and West End performers alongside a general voice caseload.

Thanh Thi Tran, Physiotherapist

Thanh graduated from The University of Melbourne, Australia in 2011 and has since worked with a wide range of clients. She was the lead physiotherapist for The Ladies European Tour (LET) and Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA, Asia Swing) tour 2016 season. In 2017 -18 she was a contracted sports physiotherapist for the International Tennis Federation (ITF). In 2019, she covered a maternity leave as a leading physiotherapist at the English National Ballet School alongside managing a London based performing arts physiotherapy clinic.

Thanh is also a specialist Performing Arts physiotherapist. She has worked with performers in Westend shows (including Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Matilda and many more), TV- Strictly Come Dancing, circus, pole and singers. Her training in laryngeal, or better known as vocal physiotherapy, has brought her to work with singers across genres from pop to classical . As well as working with professional voice users and students from institutions such as the Royal Academy of Music, and Guildhall. She currently works in private practice having founded Sông Physiotherapy in 2023.

Dr Luke Aldridge-Waddon, Clinical Psychology Trainee

Dr Luke Aldridge-Waddon (he/him) is a Clinical Psychology Trainee at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Oxford. His current role is within Psychological Medicine, focusing on supporting people experiencing persistent physical health conditions such as chronic pain and ME/CFS. Prior to clinical training, Luke completed a PhD in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience with Professor Veena Kumari, investigating associations between social reward processing and dimensional psychopathology. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at Brunel University London and is a Chartered Psychologist as listed with the British Psychological Society. Luke is a recipient of prizes from the British Voice Association (Van Lawrence Prize, 2023) and Dysphonia International (Travel Award) in recognition of his recent research on clinical psychology and voice disorders.

Tom Butler, Senior Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Trained and qualifying at UCL in 2011, Tom has been working in the area of voice disorders for over 10 years, and prior to that complex neuro rehab and head and neck cancer. Tom currently works at Guy’s Hospital in London at the voice disorders service. He has a special interest in psychogenic voice disorders and development of specific vocal support for fitness instructors. Tom runs a monthly SLT-led voice clinic and has strong relationships with ENT laryngology, assessing and advising patients in the MDT voice clinics multiple times a week. Tom is also involved in case study and research projects. Tom is also Chair of the London Voice Clinical Excellence Network @voicecenlondon

Sally Dennis, Clinical Lead SLT

Sally Dennis, BMedSci, is a Voice Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) who has been supporting patients in the management of dysphonia and voice issues for over 19 years. She has an in-depth experience of assessment and treatment approaches for this client group, including the use of laryngoscopic visual biofeedback to facilitate the achievement of optimal patient outcomes, a positive patient experience and for CPD for developing SLT’s. She is Clinical Lead for Voice Disorders at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where she has been instrumental in setting up and running an SLT led voice clinic parallel to ENT clinics, in addition to regular joint voice clinics and a BAPAM registered monthly specialist voice clinic for performers. She has had the benefit of working jointly with many ENT and SLT colleagues in various specialist voice clinics in the North West, including in her current sessions as a Consultant SLT at Manchester Foundation Trust. She is an approved SLT practitioner at Spire Manchester and has influenced opportunities for patients to access visual biofeedback and an MDT approach in private practice, where indicated.