Chadwan Al Yagchi

Mr Chadwan Al Yaghchi MD PhD FRCS DOHNS is a consultant laryngologist at the National Centre for Airway Reconstruction, Imperial College Healthcare, London. He manages the full spectrum of laryngeal disorders with a specialist interest in airway stenosis and complex dysphagia. He completed his higher surgical training in Ear Nose and Throat in the London North Thames regional rotation and laryngology training at Charing Cross Hospital. Mr Al Yaghchi is an internationally renowned specialist in gender-affirming voice surgery. He is a founding member of the International Association of TransVoice Surgeons, and regularly lectures internationally on modern approaches to gender-affirming vocal care. He introduced a number of surgical techniques to the UK including his modification of Wendler’s Glottoplasty technique and vocal fold muscle reduction and window laryngoplasty. Mr Al Yaghchi holds a PhD in Molecular Oncology from Queen Mary’s University of London studying oncolytic viruses in head and neck cancers. In addition, he has an active clinical research program in voice, airway and swallowing disorders. He published multiple book chapters, 60 peer-reviewed articles and is currently the Laryngology Section editor of Scott-Brown's Otolaryngology textbook. Mr Al Yaghchi is a founding member of the British Laryngological Association and the President-Elect. He is a deputy general-secretary of the European Laryngological Society, board member of the UK Swallowing Research Group and former Vice president of the Royal Society of Medicine, Section of Laryngology and Rhinology.