BU Medical - Department of Otolaryngology
George L. Charpied, MS, CCC-SLP
Director of Voice and Swallowing Center

Research Interests:
Dissection examination of laryngeal anatomy. Comparison of human and Rhesus monkey muscle called the pars interna/media. Elucidation of innervation of human pars interna/media. Series of basic science studies.

Identification and treatment recurrent respiratory papillomatosis. Prospective study.

Identification and management of nonspecific vocal fold pathologies. Retrospective study.

Portable flexible endoscopic system with Internet connectivity. Creation of laptop-based endoscopic video acquisition and archiving with dedicated software interface.

Publications:
Personal Digital Assistants in Clinical Practice: Considerations and Suggestions, SpeechPathology.com Feature article. 02.MAY.05 GL Charpied

The Pars interna/media anatomy and histology of the cricothyroid muscle in humans and Rhesus macque. Submitted Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, GL Charpied

Transcutaneous Mini-Hole Technique for Vocal Fold Augmentation’ Submitted Annals of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. GA Grillone, N Brown, GL Charpied

An Inexpensive and Simple Technique of Videolaryngoscopic Image Quantification for the Clinic. In progress. GL Charpied

A Novel Technique for the Identification of Adult Velopharyngeal Mechanism Closure Impairment. In progress. GL Charpied and JR Stram

Presentations:
Comparative Anatomy of the Pars interna/media Laryngeal Muscle. International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics. Marseille, France, August 18-20, 2004.

Laryngeal Amyloid: Is it really localized? E Mahoney, J Berk, S Shapshay, and GL Charpied, COSM, Boca Raton FL, 2005.

Identification and management of nonspecific vocal fold pathologies. J Weissman, J Spiegel, GL Charpied, COSM, Boca Raton Fl, 2005.

Transcutaneous Mini-Hole Technique for Vocal Fold Augmentation. Poster, ASHA, Philadelphia PA, GA Grillone, GL Charpied, November 2005.

Personal Digital Assistants in Clinical Practice. Poster, ASHA, Philadelphia PA, GA Grillone, GL Charpied, November 2005.

George L. Charpied