Director, Division of Laryngology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Mark S. Courey, MD, Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Mount Sinai Health System, is the Division Chief of Laryngology, Director of the Grabscheid Voice and Swallowing Center of Mount Sinai, and Vice Chair of Quality for the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Courey completed medical school and residency in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at SUNY Buffalo, and a fellowship in Laryngology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. At VUMC, he served as the Medical Director of the Vanderbilt Voice Center from 1994-2004. In 2004. Dr. Courey moved to the University of California, San Francisco to head their division of Laryngology and start the UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center. At UCSF, Dr. Courey was the first Morrison Chair of Laryngology and served as the Director of Speech-Language Pathology. In 2014, Dr. Courey moved to his current position at Mount Sinai Heath System and the Grabscheid Voice and Swallowing Center. His clinical practice is focused on the management of patients with airway, voice, and swallowing disorders. Dr. Courey has devoted his career to promoting an interdisciplinary approach to patient care, including speech-language pathologists, vocal trainers, laryngologists, neurologists, radiation oncologists and voice scientists. He has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 30 book chapters. He is a funded researcher with current work in the neural mechanisms of voice production and spasmodic dysphonia. Dr. Courey directs a Fellowship in Laryngology and has participated in and/or directed training for over 30 laryngology fellows, He is the founder of the Fall Voice Conference with its mission to encourage interdisciplinary science and clinical care collaborations for the management of patients with disorders of Voice and Swallowing. Finally, Dr. Courey has worked with the AAO and ABOto to develop laryngology as a recognized subspecialty.