RESTORING VOICES, TRANSFORMING LIVES
Voice Health Institute (VHI) is an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit public charity founded in 2003 by patients who suffered voice loss and struggled to find effective treatment.
Our mission is to raise charitable funds to support research, education, and outreach programs that will improve the standard of care for voice and upper airway conditions.
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The Voice Health Institute is thrilled to share the forthcoming release of Voice Journeys: A Surgeon’s Story by Dr. Steven M. Zeitels
For decades, Dr. Zeitels has dedicated his career to helping patients preserve and restore one of the most essential elements of human identity — the voice. In Voice Journeys, he invites readers into the remarkable world of caring for human voices through an all-encompassing exploration of the field he helped transform.
Blending his own personal journey with history, medical discovery, surgical innovation, and deeply human patient and surgeon experiences, the book examines the evolution of laryngology over the last two centuries, and the advanced treatments pioneered by Dr. Zeitels for benign and malignant laryngeal disease.
The Voice Health Institute is profoundly grateful for Dr. Zeitels’ extraordinary generosity in dedicating all proceeds from Voice Journeys to support VHI’s mission to advance voice health through research, education, and public awareness.
Research
Voice is the foundation of normal human communication. Unfortunately many millions of people suffer from the devastating personal and social-economic consequences associated with voice loss caused by disease or trauma.
This includes vocal cord cancer, precancerous dysplasia, paralysis, bleeding, polyps, nodules, infectious diseases such as HPV (Human Papilloma Virus), Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis (RRP), and airway obstruction.
Much of VHI’s funding goes to support the research of Drs. Steven Zeitels and Robert Hillman, and their interdisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians at the Massachusetts General. This has produced many new surgical techniques, instruments, laser-based surgical approaches and targeted drug therapies for treating vocal cord disease and trauma while preserving the voice.
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Education
DR. JOSEPH MARTIN, DEAN OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, WITH DR. STEVEN ZEITELS
One of the most important contributions to the field of laryngology, made by the VHI, was to establish and endow the Eugene B. Casey Professorship in Laryngeal Surgery at Harvard Medical School, in the Department of Surgery of the Massachusetts General Hospital.
This was made possible through the gracious and generous philanthropy of the Eugene B. Casey Foundation of Gaithersburg, Maryland. In establishing this professorship, the VHI has ensured that the highest quality clinical care in Laryngeal Surgery will be maintained.
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In The News
Dr. Steven Zeitels featured on “Voices” episode of WCVB’s Chronicle.
The Broadcasters Foundation of America has teamed up with Dr. Steven M. Zeitels from the patient nonprofit Voice Health Institute to offer broadcast industry professionals information about laryngeal and voice care.
Sportscaster Dick Vitale shares his cancer recovery journey with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America, with a special thanks to Dr. Steven Zeitels.
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The Voice Health Institute (VHI) is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity founded in 2003. The VHI is dedicated to advancing laryngology and voice restoration through sponsoring innovative basic and translational research as well as promoting education and outreach programs.
The VHI works in cooperation with Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other institutions.
