Guest speaker: Dr. Linda Carroll PhD CCC-SLP

Dr. Linda M Carroll, speech-language pathologist and voice trainer, is an internationally-recognized voice clinician with over 40 year experience as a rehabilitation specialist, treating patients who have high voice use demands, complicated voice issues, or severe dysphonia.

Prior to Dr. Carroll’s career as a voice clinician and researcher, she was a coloratura soprano, performing regionally to critical acclaim. Raised near the coast of Maine, she began as an accomplished classical singer, expanded to the realm of voice teaching, and then expanded to the field of voice laboratory instrumentation before embarking on degrees in Speech-language pathology and voice science. She began her laboratory and rehabilitation experience with Dr. Robert Sataloff (Philadelphia, PA), and then was mentored in NYC by Dr. Wilbur James Gould, Dr. RJ Baken, and Dr. Peak Woo during her PhD.  Dr. Carroll continues to have close collaborations with laryngologists in the USA and abroad.

She has over 325 invited lectures, and 50 publications on use of clinical voice measures, management of the injured and/or post-operative voice, and assessment of dysphonia. Dr. Carroll is a frequent guest speaker at national and international conferences, and mentor to many clinicians. She has been invited speaker for The World Voice Congress, The Voice Foundation, American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, American Osteopathic Colleges of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Canadian Voice Care Foundation, British Performing Arts Medicine Conference,  Physiology and Acoustics of Singing Conference, European Congress on Musician’s Medicine, The 2nd International Conference of Jordanian Royal Medical Services, The Shanghai International ENT Conference, Voice Medicine Australia, and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) National Convention. In November 2013, Dr. Carroll was invited speaker on Vocal Health and Injury at Renee Fleming’s “American Voices” Symposia at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC

She has been consultant/lecturer to the Renata Scotto Opera Academy, and was consultant to The Juilliard School and New Jersey City University. Dr. Carroll was Assistant Editor for the VASTA Voice and Speech Review (2000-2005). She serves on Editorial Board of The Journal of Voice, and Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and is a guest reviewer for the Journal of Speech, Language, Hearing Research. Dr. Carroll was Symposium Coordinator for The Voice Foundation (1984-1991), Co-Director of the 2005 Phonosurgery and Phonotherapy: State-of-the-Art Symposium (New York, NY), Director of the 2006 ASHA PreConference: Laryngeal Imaging: Seeing is believing, served as 2012 and 2013 Chair for the Voice, Resonance and Alaryngeal Committee for ASHA Conventions. She is former Director of Undergraduate Studies in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology for New York University and was the inaugural Program Director for the Graduate Program in Speech-Language Pathology at Yeshiva University.

In her private practice, Dr. Carroll treats performers from major Opera companies, Broadway, leading jazz singers, and pop/rock performers (her students have earned over 80 Grammy nominations), as well as broadcasters, teachers, lawyers and politicians. Because of her aerodynamic background, she also treats dyspnea in FDNY first responders. Her unique background, acute perceptual skills, knowledge of anatomy and physiology of the normal and injured voice, as well as her extensive clinical experience places Dr. Carroll at the top of her field. She has been referred to as “the wizard” by her patients, and “the voice chick” among her colleagues. Dr. Carroll maintains a private practice in voice/speech, with sessions conducted using telepractice modality.