Paul C. Bryson MD, MBA

Paul C. Bryson, MD, Director of the Cleveland Clinic Voice Center and Section Head of Laryngology, is an otolaryngologist who specializes in voice and swallowing rehabilitation.

Dr. Bryson graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2004 with honors. While in medical school, he decided to pursue a career in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery and completed his residency training at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. After completing his training in North Carolina, he completed a fellowship in laryngeal surgery and voice rehabilitation at the Harvard Medical School Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for laryngeal surgery and voice rehabilitation. Most recently, Dr. Bryson completed and graduated from the Weatherhead School of Management with an executive MBA at Case Western Reserve University.

His specialty interests encompass the full range of voice, airway, and oropharyngeal swallowing disorders including medical and surgical care of the professional/performer's voice, benign vocal cord lesions such as nodules or polyps, vocal cord dysplasia or early cancer, vocal cord papilloma, vocal cord paralysis, neurolaryngological problems such as spasmodic dysphonia, Zenker's diverticulum and cricopharyngeal dysphagia. Dr. Bryson also sees adult patients with airway problems such as subglottic stenosis or bilateral vocal cord paralysis.

Since being recruited to the Cleveland Clinic in 2010, Dr. Bryson has expanded the scope of office-based procedures offered to patients including vocal fold injection, laryngeal botox, trans-nasal esophagoscopy, video stroboscopy, and office-based laser procedures for papilloma and vocal cord papilloma leukoplakia/dysplasia. He also performs office-based steroid injections for subglottic stenosis.