May 9 Research Wednesday

From Practice to Research and Back Again: Treating Adult-Onset Oropharyngeal Dysphagia

Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
Location: 500 University, Room 444
Presenters: Jennifer Barker, Lisa Durkin, and Erin Yeates, UHN

Jenny is a speech-language pathologist in the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at the University Health Network.  She manages swallowing and communication disorders in patients with cardiac and vascular disease.  She holds a status-only appointment in the Department of Speech-Pathology, University of Toronto.

Lisa is Practice Leader for Speech-Language Pathology at Toronto General Hospital and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre at the Unviersity Health Network.  She holds a status-only appointment in the Department of Speech-Pathology, University of Toronto.  Her current area of practice is Head and Neck Cancer.

Erin Yeates is a speech-language pathologist at Toronto Western Hospital in the Outpatient Swallowing Clinic and across various acute care wards, including medicine, stroke and ICU. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto SLP program.