Mark Singer

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Mark Singer is an American doctor who is best known for inventing, with speech pathologist Eric Blom, while working at Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, a type of voice prosthesis that allows victims of laryngeal cancer (cancer of the larynx) to talk. [1]

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References

  1. Newsweek 1982 "The first was developed by Dr. Mark Singer and speech pathologist Eric Blom of Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis"