Dr. Pavlidou Elena, MSc, PhD, is a Speech Pathologist specialized in Voice and Swallowing Disorders with twenty years of experience, and Head of the Voice and Swallowing Therapy Clinic of the Inter-Balkan Medical Center of Thessaloniki. She specialized in Voice Pathology in London in 2006 and completed her PhD in Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

She was a scientific associate in ENT University Clinics of Thessaloniki for a number of years in specialized Voice and Swallowing Clinics. In addition to her clinical experience, she has academic work, as she participates to this day in the annual courses of Medical students with lectures in the context of Communication Disorders and in Voice rehabilitation in oncological patients after total laryngectomy. She also lectures to postgraduate students at the University of Macedonia.

She was the first to introduce and apply manometry of stomato-posopic structures for the evaluation and rehabilitation of swallowing disorders with specific therapeutic protocols. She was also the first to be certified by America in electrical stimulation and surface electromyography in 2014 in Barcelona (Applied to the evaluation and treatment of voice and swallowing disorders).

She has developed her own successful technique for voice rehabilitation (esophageal speech) in patients with laryngeal cancer who have undergone total laryngectomy. She is certified in the Lee Sirvemann Voice Therapy (LSVT) technique, which is applied to neurological patients (e.g. Parkinson’s Disease) who have difficulty speaking.

He actively participates in international and Greek conferences and has published numerous scientific papers in Greek and foreign journals.