
Dynamic Speech Language Pathologist with specialized expertise in head and neck cancer care and burn rehabilitation. Proven track record in developing clinical competencies and mentoring peers, alongside proficiency in instrumental swallow evaluations. Committed to enhancing patient care through innovative practices and effective interdisciplinary collaboration.
· Facilitated seamless integration of new hires through structured training
· Graduate student clinical supervisor
· Mentored acute care team members to enhance professional development
· Focused on specialized care for ENT/head-neck cancer patients and those with burns
· Developed clinical competency framework tailored for speech-language pathologists specializing in burn unit care
· Clinical Fellow supervisor
Acute Care / Outpatient Neuro rehabilitation
· Coordinated and facilitated in-services for nursing staff for PMV usage and safety precautions
· Advocated for FEES and multidisciplinary tracheostomy team
· Managed and distributed inpatient caseload assignments to speech team
· Participated in ICU/ Trauma rounds with multidisciplinary team
· Assess and treat individuals with neurological deficits and voice disorders in outpatient clinic
· Evaluate and treat individuals with head and neck cancer post-surgical intervention
· Provide pre-operative and post-operative education and training for laryngectomees
Acute Care
· Utilize clinical bedside swallow evaluations to identify patients at risk for dysphagia and recommend appropriate instrumental evaluations
· Perform instrumental swallow studies to assess oropharyngeal swallow physiology and devise swallow rehabilitation plan
· Evaluate and treat patients receiving mechanical ventilation in intensive care units
· Assess and treat patients with cognitive-linguistic, language, and motor speech disorders
· Assess and treat patients on spinal cord injury unit including dysphagia diagnostics and treatment, cognitive-linguistic assessment and treatment, and AAC evaluation and education
ENT Outpatient Clinic
· Assess and treat modalities of alaryngeal speech, including maintenance of tracheoesophageal prosthesis and/or use of electrolarynx
· Provide pre- and post-operative counseling and education for individuals undergoing head and neck surgery and/or chemoradiation therapy, including total laryngectomy
· Assess and treat a variety of voice disorders
· Provide voice feminization therapy to individuals who identify as transgender females
Contributed to head and neck tumor board multidisciplinary meetings
Outpatient TBI/ Polytrauma Clinic
· Assess, diagnose, and treat individuals with cognitive-linguistic disorders, language disorders, and motor speech disorders
· Evaluate and collaborate with patients diagnosed with ALS, providing swallow evaluations via MBSS and AAC evaluation to obtain alternative means of communication throughout the disease process
Proficient in modified barium swallow studies
Proficient in flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallow
Expertise in Head and Neck Cancer care
Experience in Burn Patient Care
American Speech and Hearing Association Convention November 2019
· Presenting Author for Poster Session
Clinical Case Study: Utilization of Lexical Retrieval Cascade for the Treatment of Primary Progressive Aphasisa
· Examine language outcomes following LRCT in a male diagnosed with logopenic variant of PPA