1. New Members for Phoniatrics
Tadeus Nawka
Tamer Abou Elsaad
New Members for Phoniatrics

2. Union of European Phoniatricians – UEP and European Academy of Phoniatrics – EAP
Prof. Tamer Abou-Elsaad, MD, MSc, PhD Professor of Phoniatrics Head of Phoniatric Unit, ORL Department Faculty of Medicine Mansoura University Mansoura, Egypt IALP General Secretary, EC board member IALP Dysphagia Committee member Chair of UEP/EAP for EBE-Phoniatrics Mobile: Website :
Prof. Dr. med. Tadeus Nawka Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Department for Audiology and Phoniatrics Campus Charité Mitte (Voice, Musicians’ Medicine, and Swallowing) Charitéplatz 1; Berlin, Germany President of the European Academy of Phoniatrics Phone: Fax:

3. UEP and EAP Education of physicians in the subspecialty of Phoniatrics
Based on the training program and logbook of PHONIATRICS
Contents of the logbook will be published in the European Manual of Medicine Phoniatrics (2 Volumes)
Volume I is in press: Springer; 1st ed (1. März 2019)
Editors: am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen, A., Wiskirska-Woznica, B., Neumann, K., Nawka, T.
Fundamentals – Voice Disorders – Disorders of Language and Hearing Development
Covers communication disorders from the newborn child through to the elderly

4. UEP and EAP
The EAP provides courses for physicians who want to know more and meet the experts
1st course May 2015, Brussels, Belgium
2nd course , Prague, Czech Republic
3rd course , Helsinki, Finland
4th course , Izmir, Turkey
5th course, autumn, Moscow, Russia
6th course, May 2020, Ghent, Belgium
The EAP has established the committee and the question bank for the written/oral questions following the standards of EBE-ORL HNS exam.

5. Amendment of the Logbook Phoniatrics
DEFINITION
Phoniatrics is the medical field for communication disorders, concerned with functions and diseases of voice, speech, language, hearing (especially in so far as hearing impairment has its effects on any of the areas previously mentioned), and swallowing. In practise, Phoniatrics is a multidisciplinary discipline combining information from medical and non-medical sciences. In addition to general medical investigations and treatment procedures, Phoniatrics encloses complex competencies in the fields of cognition, learning abilities, psychological behaviour, musicians‘ medicine, and rehabilitation procedures. The most important medical fields for the clinical practise are otorhinolaryngology (ENT), neurology, neuropediatrics, (child) psychiatry, pediatrics, radiology, genetics, endocrinology, dentistry and gerontology.
On the other hand, the fundamentals of many non-medical disciplines as, for instance, linguistics, phonetics, (neuro-) psychology, pedagogy, acoustics, informatics, and communication sciences are also necessary to be included in phoniatric training programmes.