Who We Are

Northwest Voice is a collaboration between the University of Washington's Voice Section of the Speech & Hearing Sciences Department, the Division of Laryngology in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, and esteemed colleagues in vocal pedagogy and performance in the Pacific Northwest.

Northwest Voice’s mission is to provide the latest research and information from the areas of medicine, voice science, vocal pedagogy and performance, and the assessment and treatment of voice disorders, to professionals and students in medicine, speech pathology, theater, and vocal pedagogy and performance.

Northwest Voice hosts two conferences each year. "The Art & Science of the Performing Voice" conference was started in 2016 and was made possible by a generous grant from the University of Washington Bergstrom Award for Art & Science. Because of this support we were able to establish this as an annual conference.

The 2nd conference, Advanced SLP Topics in Voice, Swallowing, and Upper Airway, was first presented in August 2023 and was developed by NW Voice committee members from the UW Laryngology Department at the University of Washington Medical Center.