Otolaryngologist (ENT, Phoniatrist, Head- and Neck Surgeon)
- Claudio Storck completed his ENT training at the University Hospital of Zurich and St. Gallen from 1999 – 2006
- Since 2006 Head of the Department of Phoniatrics and Laryngology at the University Hospital Basel
- Since 2003, Claudio Storck has specialized in voice feminization surgery since 2003 and covers all surgical techniques
Profile
Claudio Storck, MD, is an otolaryngologist specializing in phoniatrics and laryngology. Thanks to his broad laryngology training, he covers all conservative and surgical techniques in laryngology. Prof. Dr. med. Claudio Storck has contributed a great deal to the understanding of the biomechanics of the larynx through his scientific research into the biomechanics of the larynx, has published in international high-impact journals and therefore has a good reputation both nationally and internationally. Claudio Storck is regularly invited to international conferences. He has specialized in voice feminizing surgery and voice deepening surgery since 2003.
Memberships & Publications
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft ORL (SGORL)
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft Phoniatrie (SGP)
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Ultraschall der Allgemeinmedizin (SGUM)
- Schweizerische Dystoniegesellschaft (SDG)
- European Laryngological Society (ELS) (Member of the Scientific Board)
- EPATH
- WPATH
- Schweizerische LASER-Gesellschaft (FMCH)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprach- und Stimmheilkunde (DGSS)
- Schweizerische Ärztevereinigung (FMH)
- Medizinische Gesellschaft Basel
- Ärztegesellschaft Baselland
- International Association of Transvoice Surgeons (IATVS)
- Storck C, Gehrer R, Fischer C, Wolfensberger M, Honegger F, Friedrich G, Gugatschka M. The role of the cricothyroid joint anatomy in cricothyroid approximation surgery. J Voice 2011 Sep;25(5):632-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2010.06.001.Epub 2010 Oct 25.
- Tschan S, Honegger F, Storck C. Cricothyroid Joint anatomy as a predicting factor for success of cricoid-thyroid approximation in transwomen. Laryngoscope 2016 Jun; 126(6):1380-4.doi:10.1002/lary.25518.Epub 2015 Jul30. PMID: 26227170
- Koch J, Unteregger F, Honegger F, Potthast S, Storck C. The Cricothyroid Joint: A Practical Guide for Distinguishing Between Different Joint Types. J Voice 2020 Jan;24(1);33-37. Doi:10.1016/j.voice.201808.019.Epub2018 Sep 20
- Storck C, Unteregger F. Cricothyroid joint type as a predictor for vocal fold elongation in professional singers. Laryngoscope 2018 May;128(5):1176-1181. doi: 10.1002/lary.26984. Epub 2017 Nov 8.PMID: 29114888
- Storck C. Stimmanpassung bei Trans-jugendlichen 1/2022 Pädiatrie
- Storck C, Schaufelbühl A, Müller C, Honegger F. Cricothyroid Approximation in Trans Women with Type A Cricothyroid Joints. Laryngoscope 2025 epub ahead. DOI: 10.1002/lary.70105
- 2015 Fortbildungsveranstaltung USZ: Genderdysphorie: Möglichkeiten der Stimmfeminisierung
- 2015: ORLHNS Congress Prag Cricothyroid Joint as a predicting factor for success of crico-thyroid approximation in trans-women
- 2015 BLA Annual Conference, London, Cricothyroid Joint as a predicting factor for success of crico-thyroid approximation in trans-women
- 2017 DGPP Kongress, Bern Therapeutische Überlegungen der Stimmfeminisierung bei Genderdysphorie
- 2019 Acnodice Lausanne, Larynx Surgery for feminization of Transgender Voice
- 2020 Schweizerische Gesellschaft für pädiatrische Endokrinologie: Stimmanpassung bei trans Jugendlichen
- 2021 Basel, Der eigenen Identität eine Stimme geben – trans Menschen in der Phoniatrie
- 2022 Plastische Chirurgie Kongress: Operative Stimmanpassungen bei trans Menschen
- 2022 DGSS Operative Stimmanpassung bei trans Menschen
- 2023 EPATH Killarney (IRE) Voice outcome after cricoid-thyroid approximation in tans women with a type A cricothyroid joint: a long term Follow-up
- 2023 EPATH Killarney (IRE): Vocal fold shortening and retrodisplacement of the anterior commissure (VFSRAC) and Cricoid – Thyroid – Approximation in trans Women: A Pilot Study
- 2023 Krankenhaus ViDia, Karlsruhe: Operative Stimmanpassung bei trans Menschen
- 2023: Fortbildungsverantstaltung Psychiatrischer Verbund, Karlsruhe: Operative Stimmanpassung bei trans Menschen
- 2024 Checkpoint Zürich: Larynx Surgery in trans people
- 2025 SGORL Jahresversammlung St. Gallen, President’s Lecture: Giving your own identity a voice – Voice Adjustments for trans people
- 2025 EPATH Hamburg Voice outcome after glottoplasty in trans women: a long term follow up study
- 2025 EPATH Hamburg Practice makes perfect – or the influence of joint type on vocal fold elongation in professional singers and non-singers