Steven M. Zeitels
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Steven Marc Zeitels | |
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| Born | 7 November 1957 New York City, New York, United States |
| Known for | surgical innovation, voice procedures (phonosurgery), vocal cord cancer surgery |
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| Institutions | Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital |
Steven Marc Zeitels (born November 7, 1957) is the Eugene B. Casey Professor of Laryngeal Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation (MGH Voice Center).
Early life and education
[edit]Zeitels grew up in New Rochelle, New York. He graduated from the BU School of Medicine in 1982.[1] He completed the BU - Tufts combined Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Program in 1987 as well as a Head & Neck Surgical Oncology Fellowship at BU and the Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center in 1988.[2]
Career
[edit]In 2004, the first endowed Chair in Laryngeal Surgery at Harvard Medical School was created for him.[3]
Zeitels has designed numerous new voice restoration procedures (phonosurgery) and surgical instruments, and holds six patents for these innovations.[citation needed]
He is widely acknowledged for novel laser applications to treat dysplasia and cancer as well as laryngeal papillomatosis, polyps, nodules. He is also known for perfecting office-based laryngeal laser surgery. He introduced angiolytic laser treatment of vocal cord cancer, which evolved from Judah Folkman’s concepts of tumor angiogenesis and Rox Anderson’s theory of selective photothermolysis.
Zeitels has designed procedures to restore the voice of those who have had vocal paresis and paralysis. His techniques were featured in a National Geographic Channel documentary, “The Incredible Human Machine”, which highlighted Zeitels’ microsurgery on Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.
Zeitels founded and directs the Voice Restoration Research Program, which is a collaborative effort of investigators at Harvard and MGH, as well as Robert Langer at MIT. They have spent over a decade developing a biomaterial that would restore the largest majority of human voice loss and the research group received the 2010 Broyles Maloney Award of the American Broncho-Esophagological Association for their effort.
Personal life
[edit]He met his wife, Maria Nuria Hananias, a Chilean otolaryngological surgeon, in 2001 and they were married in 2003. They have two children, a boy and a girl.[4]
Recognition
[edit]- 2014 Broyles Maloney Award of the American Broncho-Esophagological Association
- 2012 Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People (14th)[5]
- 2012 Rolling Stone’s 25 Best Things in Rock (13th)[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Colapinto, John (4 March 2013), "Giving Voice : A Surgeon Pioneers Methods to Help Singers Sing Again", The New Yorker, p. 50
- ^ "Steven Zeitels, M.D. | Mass General Research Institute". Find a Researcher - Massachusetts General Hospital. Retrieved 2025-04-25.
- ^ "Dr.Steven Zeitels | Kennedy Center". The Kennedy Center. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
- ^ Colapinto, John (4 March 2013), "Giving Voice : A Surgeon Pioneers Methods to Help Singers Sing Again", The New Yorker, p. 54
- ^ "How To Save Adele And Improve Medicine". 1 June 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ "Mass. General cancer doc lands in Rolling Stone cover story". 22 April 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
