Professional Experience

Dr. Arti Vikani Vadi is currently the only practising phonosurgeon in entire Saurashtra-Kutch region. She has the distinction of being among the handful of ENT surgeons in India to have been trained extensively in laryngology and has received the Fellowship in Phonosurgery conferred by the Association of Phonosurgeons of India. She is experienced in diagnosing various laryngeal disorders like functional voice disorders, vocal nodules, polyps and cysts, vocal cord palsy, swallowing disorders and performing microlaryngeal surgeries, laryngeal framework surgeries and injection laryngoplasty. She has also been adequately trained in and has performed numerous routine ENT procedures like tonsillectomy, thyroidectomy, nasal surgeries, ear surgeries, dacryo-cysto-rhinostomy and salivary gland surgeries.

Core competencies:

• • Diagnosis and management of voice disorders

• • Voice analysis and voice therapy

• • Voice corrective surgeries

• • Microlaryngeal surgeries

• • Management of unilateral and bilateral vocal cord palsy

• • Botox injection for spasmodic dysphonia

• • Diagnosis and management of swallowing disorders

• • Routine ear, nose and throat surgeries

Professional background:

• • M.B.B.S. – C.U.Shah Medical College, Surendranagar

• • M.S. (ENT) – S.B.K.S. Medical Institute and Research Centre, Waghodia

• • Fellowship in Phonosurgery – KIMS, Trivandrum, Kerala

Research & Publication

• Normative Voice parameters: A clinical evaluation. Paper presented at Phonocon 2016
• Transtubercular sellar extradural approach of suprasellar pituitary tumours. Paper presented at 35th AOI-GSB, 2011
• Trans-nasal endoscopic removal of malformed odontoid process in patients with craniovertebral anomaly: a report of 2 cases. Poster presented at AOICON 2013
• Primary hyperparathyroidism with rare presentation as multiple Brown tumours. Clinics and Practice 2012; volume 2:e48.

Achievement

• Speaker at CME of ENT Society of Rajkot, March 2016 & August 2015
• Co-faculty at 4th Temporal Bone Dissection/Thyroplasty Workshop at Kollam, Kerala, June 2015
• Faculty at Swallowcon, Alappuzha, Kerala, 2015
• 3rd prize for paper presentation at AOI-GSB 2011