Mr Gary Wood

Mr Gary Wood

Gary Wood is a leading UK Clinician working with Adult and Paediatric Professional and Non-Professional Voice disorders. As a registered Speech and Language Therapist, he has a wealth of experience working with the voice and when it goes wrong. He uses his experience and knowledge to facilitate voice repair and recovery.

Gary has had training in many of the conventional system based treatments, e.g. Estell, Voicecraft, Laryngeal manual therapy, Manual Circumlaryngeal therapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and hypnosis. Using a breadth of techniques and approaches including various vocal exercises, advice, modification techniques and counselling he can target the patients/clients voice issues without the constraints of using one particular system.

Qualifying at Central School of Speech and Drama as a Speech and Language Therapist on the 4th July 1994, he started at the only UK ENT Hospital, The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear hospital on Gray’s Inn Road London on the very next day. He worked full time as a Principal Speech and Language Therapist for 25 years seeing its closure on 4th October 2019. He continues to work Full time on the NHS at the new Royal National Ear, Nose and Throat and Eastman’s Hospital in Huntley Street London (UCLH).

He has been involved in teaching for many years on graduate and postgraduate courses as well as setting up specialist courses in Nasendoscopy, Head and Neck Cancer including Voice Restoration, ENT Swallowing assessments (Fibre endoscopic evaluation of swallowing) and Voice therapy techniques courses. He runs specialist Speech Therapy led Voice clinics weekly as well as supporting ENT consultant-led Voice and Laryngology clinics. He has been working full time in the fields of Voice Disorders, airway, ENT oncology (cancer) and ENT swallowing/dysphagia since 1994 and has a great deal of experience across the speciality of ENT. He has specialised further in the field of voice: with interests in singer’s rehabilitation, endoscopy procedures, hypermobility disorders, transgender voice and endocrine voice disorders, airway disorders and acoustic assessment. Gary has been a honorary lecturer at UCL and has trained many students and therapists in the clinical use of acoustic assessments and endoscopy equipment. He has also been involved in several research publications in both applications of acoustic equipment as well as assisting in designing and validating new imaging systems.

Research published papers

1) Cricothyroid approximation and subluxation in 21 male-to-female transsexuals. Kanagalingam J, Georgalas C, Wood GR, Ahluwalia S, Sandhu G, Cheesman AD. Laryngoscope. 2005 Apr;115(4):611-8.

2) Is acoustic analysis of snoring an alternative to sleep nasendoscopy? Saunders NC, Tassone P, Wood G, Norris A, Harries M, Kotecha B. Clin Otolaryngol Allied Sci. 2004 Jun;29(3):242-6.

3) Tracheoesophageal puncture using a KTP laser. El-Alami M, Wood G, Howard DJ Laryngoscope. 2003 Jun;113(6):1089.

4) Dysphonia associated with inhaled steroids. Lavy JA, Wood G, Rubin JS, Harries M. J Voice. 2000 Dec;14(4):581-8

5) Effect of caffeine on the vocal folds: a pilot study. Akhtar S, Wood G, Rubin JS, O’Flynn PE, Ratcliffe P. J Laryngol Otol. 1999 Apr;113(4):341-5

6) Laryngeal Manual Therapy: A Preliminary Study to Examine its Treatment Effects in the Management of Muscle Tension Dysphonia Mathieson, L., Hirani, S.P., Epstein, R., Baken, R.J., Wood, G., Rubin, J.S.Hide details Journal of Voice, Volume 23, Issue 3, May 2009

7) Comparison between OperaVOXTM and MDVP: Preliminary Results. Baki MM, Wood G, Alston M, Ratcliffe P, Sandhu G, Rubin JS, Birchall MA Otolaryngol — Head Neck Surg. 2013 Sep 1;149(2 suppl): P203–P204

8) Electroglottographic Study of Seven Semi-Occluded Exercises: LaxVox, Straw, Lip-Trill, Tongue-Trill, Humming, Hand-Over-Mouth, and Tongue-Trill Combined With Hand-Over-Mouth Pedro Amarante Andrade, Gary Wood, Philippa Ratcliffe, Ruth Epstein, Anne Pijper, and Jan G. Svec, Journal of Voice Volume 28, Issue 5, September 2014, Pages 589-595

9) Reliability of OperaVOX against Multidimensional Voice Program (MDVP) Mat Baki, M., Wood, G., Alston, M., Ratcliffe, P., Sandhu, G., Rubin, J.S., Birchall, M.A.Hide details Clinical Otolaryngology, Volume 40, Issue 1, 1 February 2015

10) Is it possible to use acoustic analysis of a patient’s voice, measured on a mobile device, to accurately exclude vocal cord paralysis after thyroid surgery? Owain Rhys Hughes, Marina Mat Baki, Arwa El-Sheemy, Habet Madoyan, John S. Rubin, Gary Wood, Anil Alexander, Oscar Forth, George Mochloulis, Khalid Ghufoor, Guri Sandhu, Martin A. Birchall European Journal of Surgical Oncology, Volume 41, Issue 10, S81 – S82 October 2015

11) i-Scan enhanced Ultra-HD in the laryngology clinic: first impressions Wood G, Saxby C, Ratcliffe P, Rubin J, Ghufoor K, Birchall M Poster BLA September 2017

12) Laryngological presentations and patient-reported outcome measures in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Lam CM, Wood G, Birchall MA. J Laryngol Otol. 2021 Dec 10:1-13. doi:

13) Throat and voice problems in Ehlers-Danlos syndromes and hypermobility spectrum disorders. Birchall MA, Lam CM, Wood G. Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet. 2021 Dec;187(4):527-532. doi:

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Mr Gary Wood

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