Voice and Larynx Department (Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Ward 2)
The Department of Voice and Laryngology of Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated with Xiamen University has a voice medicine team dedicated to improving patients’ voice quality. Established in 2009 and made an independent department in 2018, the team has maintained close scientific research and clinical collaborations with many internationally leading voice centers for more than 10 years, striving to provide patients with treatments in line with international standards. It has also received approval to establish the Institute of Voice Research of Xiamen University School of Medicine, a Xiamen Key Laboratory, and an advantageous subspecialty of the Xiamen Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission. At present, the department has an approved capacity of 18 beds, more than 5,000 annual outpatient visits to its voice and laryngology specialty, and more than 800 minimally invasive voice surgeries, serving patients with complex voice disorders from across the country. The department encompasses three major subspecialties: voice disorders, pharyngeal and laryngeal disorders, and swallowing disorders. Its specialized diagnostic and treatment services include voice training, speech training, swallowing training, electromyography examinations, botulinum toxin injections, vocal fold augmentation, arytenoidectomy, and CO2 laser surgery, among others, placing it at a leading level in China. The team’s work has been widely recognized by peers in China; it was specially commissioned to write the professional entry “Voice Disorders,” jointly produced by the National Health Commission and Baidu Baike; it was featured in CCTV’s first systematic introduction to voice medicine, and the special program “The Technique of Vocal Fold Vibration” was broadcast in April 2017 on CCTV Channel 10’s “Approaching Science”; the team actively engages in voice medicine education, receiving 15–20 visiting trainees annually from renowned medical institutions across the country, and also undertaking foreign-language teaching for the Department of Laryngology of Xiamen University; it has successfully held the national Voice Medicine Advances Training Course for 12 consecutive years. At the same time, Professor Peiyun Zhuang serves concurrently as Vice Chair of the Otorhinolaryngology Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine and Chair of its Voice Expert Committee, as Deputy Head of the Voice Group of the Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, and has led the team in spearheading or participating in the formulation of multiple consensus statements of the Chinese Medical Association. The team’s work has also been recognized by international peers; in addition to Professor Peiyun Zhuang’s appointment as a standing member of the Expert Committee of the International Voice Society, several team members are also committee members of the International Voice Society, and in recent years they have chaired sessions and delivered presentations more than 20 times at various international voice conferences; the team received the First Prize of the Spasmodic Dysphonia Research Award jointly presented by the International Spasm Society and the International Voice Society; and it was designated by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine as an overseas training site for medical students, hosting visiting U.S. medical students. The team has been awarded six General Program projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and multiple key provincial and municipal research projects, and has published more than 80 articles in SCI-indexed and core journals in total. It has received one first prize, one second prize, and one third prize of the Xiamen Science and Technology Progress Award. It has participated in the chief editing or writing of 10 professional works related to the field.