Eugene B. Casey Professor & Chief: Division of Laryngeal Surgery
Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital
Steven Marc Zeitels is the Eugene Casey Professor of Laryngeal Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Voice Center. He has authored >200 scientific articles, book chapters, and videos in larynx and pharynx surgery as well as >300 papers/lectures. He has served on the editorial board of 5 national and international journals. Zeitels has been the visiting professor at >35 departments, universities, & hospitals. He graduated from the BU School of Medicine (1982). He completed the BU-Tufts ORL-HNS Program (1987) and Head & Neck Surgical Oncology Fellowship at BU (1988).
Zeitels has received more than 80 awards and honored lectureships including the Casselberry Award, DeRoaldes Medal, and Newcomb Award from the American Laryngological Association. He has also received the Chevalier Jackson Award and the Broyles Maloney Award (3 times) from the American Broncho-Esophagological Association, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from BU Medical School. In 2012, Zeitels was listed 13 in Rolling Stone’s ‘25 Best Things in Rock Right Now’ and 14 in Fast Company’s ‘100 most Creative People’.
Zeitels has designed numerous voice-restoration procedures and instruments and holds 6 patents for these innovations. He pioneered office-based angiolytic laryngeal laser surgery and the treatment of laryngeal cancer and dysplasia. A group of Dr. Zeitels’ dedicated patients created the nonprofit Voice Health Institute (2003), which has led to a variety of key advances in laryngeal surgery.
Zeitels has done career-saving surgery on hundreds of performers/celebrities including Julie Andrews, Adele, Muhammad Ali, Steven Tyler, Sam Smith, Roger Daltrey, Lionel Richie, Keith Urban, and Joe Buck. He has done voice restoration microsurgery on 19 Grammy-Award-winning performers, who have garnered 85 awards from >250 nominations. In 2013, Zeitels’ career was highlighted in a long-form biographical profile in the New Yorker Magazine: ‘A Surgeon Pioneers Methods to Help Singers Sing’.