Medical Director , Evelyn Trammell Institute for Voice & Swallowing
Medical University of South Carolina
Lucinda Halstead, MD is a Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery and the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina and is the Medical Director of the MUSC Evelyn Trammell Institute for Voice and Swallowing. She is Past President of the Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA) and the laryngologist for the internationally renowned Spoleto Festival USA. During this pandemic, she has participated in numerous national and international webinars and radio interviews on singer’s pandemic related medical issues, COVID aerosols and its management in the studio and educational settings. She has hosted 2 COVID related webinars for PAMA. She publishes and lectures nationally and internationally on the topics of vocal health, performing artist wellness, disorders of the singing voice, singing voice dystonia, hearing loss and noise exposure in singers, laryngopharyngeal reflux disorders, pediatric performing voice issues and pediatric voice and swallowing disorders. Her passion is to share state of the art information on voice and performing artist health to singers, voice teachers, voice students (middle school – university) and theater groups. Professional societies include the Performing Arts Medicine Association, The Voice Foundation, Collegium Medicorum Theatri, and the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology, amongst others.