Mr Chadwan Al Yaghchi

Mr Chadwan Al Yaghchi is a Consultant Laryngologist at the National Centre for Airway Reconstruction and Imperial Voice and Swallowing Centre based at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust where he manages all aspects of voice, swallowing and airway. He is an honorary consultant at The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. He treats children with complex airway, respiratory and swallowing conditions, as well as obstructive sleep apnoea.

He completed his higher surgical training in ear, nose and throat in the London North Thames regional rotation working in a number of prestigious university hospitals, including Charing Cross Hospital, University College London Hospital and The Royal London Hospital. He visited various international centres including a visiting fellowship to UC Davies Center for Voice and Swallowing, Sacramento, USA.

Mr Al Yaghchi has a specialist interest in transgender voice. His interest started early in his training when he worked at Charing Cross Hospital home to The Gender Identity Clinic (GIC), the largest and oldest gender clinic in the UK, dating back to 1966. The ENT department worked in close collaboration with the GIC to help hundreds of transgender people achieve a voice that matches their gender identity through surgery and therapy. He initially trained on open surgical techniques such as cricothyroid approximation and its modifications. Later in his surgical training and early consultant career, he developed his own modification of the Wendler glottoplasty technique.