Recognition
Awards and Recognitions
- Honorary Member, Union of European Phoniatricians, 2023
- Finland’s ENT Doctor of the Year, awarded by the Finnish Association of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, 2020
- Best Presenter, Finnish Association of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Spring 2020
- Best Presenter, Finnish Association of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Autumn 2018
- Honorary Member, Romanian Society of Phoniatrics, 2018
- 1st Place, European Phoniatrics Voice Award, awarded by the Union of European Phoniatricians and Xion, 2016
- Journal of Voice Best Paper Award in Vocal Pedagogy, 2013
Other marked academic merits
- PhD Thesis Opponent: Impact of Thyroid Disease and Surgery on Patient’s Quality of Voice and Swallowing, LL Linda Sõber, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu, Estonia, March 31, 2023
- PhD Thesis Reviewer: Chronic Oropharyngeal Dysphagia: Nutritional and Psychosocial Implications, Doctoral Dissertation of Aurora Ninfa, University of Milan, February 2023
- PhD Thesis Reviewer: The Development and Value of an Automated Voice Analysis System, Doctoral Dissertation of Nora Ulozaite-Staniene, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, August 2020
- Reviewer Assignments in the following journals: European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Journal of Voice, Journal of Logopedics, Phoniatrics and Vocology, International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology
International invitations and lectures
- Honorary Member, Union of European Phoniatricians, 2023
- Finland’s ENT Doctor of the Year, awarded by the Finnish Association of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, 2020
- Best Presenter, Finnish Association of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Spring 2020
- Best Presenter, Finnish Association of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Autumn 2018
- Honorary Member, Romanian Society of Phoniatrics, 2018
- 1st Place, European Phoniatrics Voice Award, awarded by the Union of European Phoniatricians and Xion, 2016
- Journal of Voice Best Paper Award in Vocal Pedagogy, 2013
Organization of international congresses
- Head of Organizing Committee, 29th Union of European Phoniatricians Congress, Helsinki (June 2018)
- Member of Organizing Committee, European Laryngological Society Workshop on Dysphagia, Helsinki (June 2019)
Memberships and positions of Trust
- President, Finnish Laryngological Society, 2020–2023
- President, Union of European Phoniatricians, 2018–2023
- Vice-President, Union of European Phoniatricians, 2015–2018
- Board Member, International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, 2016–2019
- Deputy Member, Finnish Phoniatricians Association, 2012–2019
- Treasurer, Union of European Phoniatricians, 2013–2015
- Treasurer, European Academy of Phoniatrics, 2013–2014
- Member, Finnish Association of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery