Antoinette am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen studied medical sciences in Düsseldorf and Bonn. In 1983 she became a medical specialist in ENT diseases and in 1986, a medical specialist in phoniatrics and paedaudiology. In 1988, she gained her Habilitation from Düsseldorf University for her work on regulation of vocal amplitude and frequency during voice onset. In 1990 Dr. am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen was appointed Professor of Phoniatrics and Paedaudiology at the Medical Faculty of Philipps University in Marburg. The following year she became Professor at the Medical Faculty at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster, where she was Head of the Clinic of Phoniatrics and Paedaudiology until her retirement in 2020. She is author or co-author of more than 150 original papers in German and English on various aspects of phoniatrics and paedaudiology, and co-author of several books. She has been both Secretary and President of the German Society of Phoniatrics and Paedaudiology, President ofthe Union of the European Phoniatricians (UEP) and has initiated and promoted the foundation of the European Academy of Phoniatrics as the founding director. She and her team have received several awards. Antoinette am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen is honorary chairwoman of the Union of the European Phoniatricians and honorary member of the Polish Society of Otorhinolaryngologists and Head and Neck Surgeons, of the Czech Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, of the German Society of Phoniatrics and Paedaudiology, of the European Academy of Phoniatrics and of the Confederation of German Hearing Screening Centres. Antonio Schindler studied medicine at the University of Turin, Italy. He specialised in Phoniatrics in 2001 and in ENT in 2005. He is currently Head of the Phoniatric Unit at Sacco Hospital in Milan and Full Professor in Audiology at the University of Milan, where he Chairs the Bachelor degree in Speech and Language Pathology. He has chaired the Dysphagia Committee of the International Association of Logopaedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) and is General Secretary of the European Society for Swallowing Disorders. Dr. Schindler is an Associate Editor and reviewer for several international journals. His main areas of research include voice and swallowing disorders, child language and aphasia. He has published more than 160 original articles in Journals indexed in Scopus, in addition to monographs and book chapters in Italian and English.Patrick Georg Zorowka received his doctorate from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 1978. Between 1980 and 1985 he trained as an ENT specialist at the ENT department of the Martin Luther University Hospital Halle-Wittenberg. He also specialised in phoniatrics, paedaudiology and allergology. After several years of clinical and managerial work at the ENT Department of the University Hospital of Cologne (1986–1988) and at the Department of Communication Disorders of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (1988–1996), he was appointed Professor of ENT and Phoniatrics-Audiology at the Department of Hearing, Speech and Voice Disorders of the Medical Faculty of Innsbruck in 1996. He was Director of the Department until his retirement in autumn 2022. Patrick Zorowka has been a board member and president of several scientific societies in the field of ENT, audiology and phoniatrics. In recognition of his work, he has received several awards, e.g. the Annelie Frohn Award of the German Society for Phoniatrics and Paedaudiology and the Sponsorship Award of the Research Council of the German Society for Hearing Aid Acoustics and has been an honorary member and corresponding member of several scientific societies. He has published more than 100 original articles and book contributions and is co-editor of professional journals.
