Bestowed by the American Laryngological Association and in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in the field of laryngology and rhinology, the prestigious deRoaldes Award’s newest recipient is University of Utah’s Ingo Titze, PhD.
Typically awarded to physician (MD) researchers, Titze, Senior Scientist at the Utah Center for Vocology (UCV), joins a small group of PhDs in voice science to receive this honor, which was presented at the annual President’s Reception at the annual meeting of the ALA in Pheonix, Arizona on April 22.
Dr. Joel H. Blumin, the sitting president of ALA, offered his sincere congratulations to Titze and described more about the award, which was established in 1907 with a donation from Dr. A. W. deRoaldes, then president of the ALA. He said, “The fund was established to create an award to be presented to an individual whose outstanding work in laryngology deserves special recognition. The recipient receives a certificate as well as a medal inscribed with a figure of Hippocrates, staff, serpents, wreath of laurel, and surrounded by the words ‘American Laryngological Association’. A committee of five Fellows is responsible for selecting the awardee and approval is made from the Council of the American Laryngological Association.”
Having traveled to Arizona to accept the prize among his valued colleagues, Titze shared in the joy.
“It was a pleasure to share a few hours with the esteemed laryngologists in this country who take care of and repair our voices. Those of us who study the human voice and call ourselves vocologists, would find little purpose for our scientific discoveries without these gifted physicians. I am grateful to be part of this eclectic community.”
More about Ingo R. Titze, Ph.D, M.S.E.E., PAVA-RV
Ingo R. Tize, Ph.D., M.S.E.E., PAVA-RV is the senior scientist at the Utah Center for Vocology. He has held appointments in the School of Music, Biomedical Engineering, Otolaryngology, and Surgery departments since arriving at the University of Utah in 2009. He is the Founder and current President of the National Center for Voice and Speech. Dr. Titze received his B.S. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Utah, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Brigham Young University. From 1965 to 1966, he worked as a Research Engineer with North American Aviation and from 1968 to 1969 with The Boeing Company. He worked as Lecturer in Physics & Electrical Engineering at the California State Polytechnic University from 1973 to 1974. He then became Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Petroleum & Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, before later accepting the position of Assistant Professor in Speech Communication Research in the Sensory Communication Research laboratory at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. from 1976 to 1979. Concurrently, he worked as a consultant on computer modeling of human speech production in the Department Linguistics & Speech Analysis at Bell Telephone Laboratories. He is a University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Voice and Speech, having served on the U of I faculty for 40 years.
He has published more than 450 articles in scientific and educational journals, including feature articles in Scientific American, The World and I, Physics World, Science, and a cover story in New Scientist. His book publications include Principles of Voice Production (1994), The Myoelastic-Aerodynamic Theory of Phonation (2006), Vocology: The Science and Practice of Voice Habilitation (2012), co-authored with Katherine Verdolini Abbott, and Fascinations with the Human Voice (2010), which is printed in eight languages. His research interests include biomechanics of human tissues, acoustic phonetics, speech science, voice disorders, professional voice production, and the computer simulation of voice.
He has given invited presentations in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, Portugal, Sweden, Taiwan, The Netherlands, and across the United States.
Dr. Titze is a founding member and the first elected President of the Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA). He has administered and taught in the Summer Vocology Institute, UCV's premiere Vocology training program, since its inception in 2000. His professional affiliations include the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), the American Laryngological Association (ALA), and PAVA.
In addition to the deRoaldes award, his honors include the Gould Award for outstanding research in laryngeal physiology (1984), the Acoustical Society of America’s Gold Medal Award (2024) and Silver Medal Award (2007), the ASHA Honors of the Association (2010), the CCM Institute Lifetime Achievement Award (2019), and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (2019). In addition, he received the first Voice Foundation Award for Creativity in Voice Science in 2019 along with Johann Sundberg. That award has henceforth been renamed the Johann Sundberg-Ingo R. Titze Award.
In the vocal arts, Dr. Titze has presented multiple recitals as a tenor soloist, most notably The Art of Ludwig van Beethoven and Normal Rockwell and Songs and Science with his singing robot Pavarobotti.
More about Utah Center for Vocology
The Utah Center for Vocology conducts research, provides education in vocology, and disseminates information about voice and speech, enabling individuals around the world to enjoy healthy and effective vocal communications. Housed at the University of Utah (a Tier-1 research university) within the College of Fine Arts, the Utah Center for Vocology staff includes active researchers, professors, clinicians, and graduate students in areas across campus, including the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Department of Theatre, School of Music, and Biomedical Engineering and Otolaryngology.
More about the ALA
Founded in 1879, the American Laryngological Association is recognized as the oldest national academic society in the United States devoted to the study of diseases of the throat. It is a premier scholarly organization for physicians and scientists specializing in laryngology and upper aerodigestive tract disorders. The ALA recognizes the accomplishments of these individuals through membership, seeks to encourage research in laryngology, and elevate the standards of the fundamental teaching of laryngology in medical schools and post graduate education.
