Description
Presented by: Jessica Gregor, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
AUDIENCE: Graduate students, Clinical Fellows, experienced clinicians, clinicians who would like to transition from school-based SLP to medical-based SLP.
This webinar is FREE for all thanks to the unrestricted educational grant provided by Bracco Diagnostics!
Description of Webinar
This webinar will dive into basics of cricopharyngeal anatomy and physiology and the role of the CP as part of the aerodigestive protective reflexes. Various states of pathophysiology will be reviewed with videofluoroscopic video examples. Diagnostic considerations and current interventions from the multidisciplinary dysphagia team will also be covered.
Learning Objectives:
1) Learner will differentiate the terminology of upper esophageal sphincter and pharyngoesophageal segment.
2) Learner will identify functions of the cricopharyngeus muscle.
3) Learner will describe various degrees of cricopharyngeal muscle dysfunction. 4) Learner will list various interventions for cricopharyngeal muscle dysfunction.
This webinar is approximately 60 minutes in length. This is a recording of a live webinar.
This webinar is offered for Professional Development Hours (PDHs), previously Certification Maintenance Hours (CMHs). Dysphagia Cafe is not an ASHA CEU provider and does not submit for ASHA CEUs. For more information on PDH: https://www.asha.org/certification/factdef/.
Certificate of completion available upon request
Presenter:
Jessica Gregor is a board-certified specialist in swallowing and swallowing disorders in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. She is an instructor of Speech Pathology through the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Jessica specializes in prevention, management, and rehabilitation of swallowing, speech, jaw opening, breathing, and lymphatics in the oncology population, including alaryngeal speech and pulmonary optimization in total laryngectomees. She established the first Multidisciplinary Swallowing Clinic within the Mayo Clinic system with her ENT and GI colleagues for best collaborative care of complex dysphagia cases. Jessica obtained her Bachelor of Science in Speech & Hearing Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008 and her Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology at Rush University in Chicago, IL in 2010. She is a trainer for the McNeill Dysphagia Therapy Program as well as a clinical mentor for the Med SLP Ed and associated certification program. Jessica also co-founded Esophageal Co-Lab LLC with her colleague Dr. Stephanie Watts, which is an educational, training, and collaborative endeavor for multidisciplinary dysphagia teams and implementing esophageal screening into clinical practice.
