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408 – Building Mobile FEES From the Inside: How One Company Trained Its Own Endoscopists
On this episode of The Swallow Your Pride Podcast, Theresa Richard sits down with Lindsay Iser, M.S., CCC-SLP, Director of Clinical Specialty for Powerback Swallow Solutions, who leads one of the largest in-house mobile FEES programs in the country. Lindsay walks...
407 – Cognitive Rehab Belongs in Acute Care: How One Hospital Built the Case Over 12 Years
On this episode of The Swallow Your Pride Podcast, Theresa sits down with Nicole Langton-Frost, CCC-SLP, BCS-S and Carey DeWalt, CCC-SLP from The Johns Hopkins Hospital to talk about something a lot of acute care SLPs have been told to skip: cognitive evaluation and...
406 – From Rat Lab to Real Patients: Building a Career in Dysphagia Research
On this episode of The Swallow Your Pride Podcast, I sit down with Nicole Schaen-Heacock, PhD, CCC-SLP, a postdoctoral fellow in the Advanced Fellowship in Geriatrics at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison, working in Dr. Nicole...
405 – A New Tool for the Hardest Patients: Pharyngeal Electrical Stimulation After Stroke | Phagenesis
On this episode of The Swallow Your Pride Podcast, Theresa sits down with Cari Manypenny, MS, CCC-SLP, Associate Director of Medical Affairs at Phagenesis, and Alyssa Cook, MA, CCC-SLP, Therapy Development Manager at Phagenesis, to talk about pharyngeal electrical...
404 – The Weekend Effect: What ICU Exam Delays Are Actually Telling Us About Dysphagia Care
On this episode of The Swallow Your Pride Podcast, Theresa sits down with Paige DiStefano, MS, CCC-SLP, a speech-language pathologist and PhD candidate at McMaster University's Aging Swallow Research Lab. Paige walks through her research on FEES implementation in an...
403 – 3 Doctors walk into a bar: How the Most Unexpected Album in Medicine was made
On this episode of The Swallow Your Pride Podcast, Theresa sits down with Kate Hutcheson, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, Peter Belafsky, MD, M.P.H., PhD, and Andrew Tritter, MD, for a listening party unlike anything the dysphagia world has ever seen. What started as a dinner...
402 – Bigger Fish to Fry: Why Our Field’s Fixation on Aspiration Is Costing Patients More Than We Realize with Dr. Debra Suiter
On this episode of The Swallow Your Pride Podcast, Theresa sits down with Debra Suiter, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, F-ASHA — Director of the Voice and Swallow Clinic and Professor at the University of Kentucky — for a conversation that started as a personal text and turned...
401 – Stop Overcomplicating It: The Research Proving Cough Suppression Therapy Is Simpler Than You Think
On this episode of The Swallow Your Pride Podcast, we sit down with Marie Jetté PhD, CCC-SLP, a clinician-scientist who has spent over 20 years studying voice and upper airway disorders and ended up at the forefront of behavioral cough suppression research. We cover...
The 400th Episode: Swallowing my own pride and sharing the full story
On this episode of The Swallow Your Pride Podcast, it's episode 400 and Theresa Richard is giving you the full picture. How the podcast started because blogging got too hard. How the Collective was basically her paying all her smart friends until someone told her to...
Fewer Resources, Higher Stakes: What It Actually Takes to Be a Post-Acute SLP | Ep 399
On this episode of Swallow Your Pride Podcast, Theresa sits down with Dr. Sonal Pathak to talk about something that's been simmering in the field for a long time: the perception gap between acute care and post-acute SLPs. Dr. Pathak brings 16+ years of clinical...
398 – From Glasgow Coma Score of 2 to Certified Brain Injury Specialist: An SLPs Journey from Patient to Clinician
On this episode of The Swallow Your Pride Podcast, I sit down with Laura Morgan was halfway through her clinical fellowship in speech-language pathology when a motor vehicle accident left her with a moderate-severe traumatic brain injury, a fractured jaw, and broken...
397 – SLP to SLPD: What the Clinical Doctorate Actually Looks Like from the Inside
On this episode of Swallow Your Pride, we are talking about what SLPD is the SLPD, and who is it actually for? Theresa sits down with four speech-language pathologists who pursued the clinical doctorate while working full time, raising families, and staying deeply...
396 – From NPO to Full Diet: Why Patients Are Dilating Their Own Esophagus
On this episode, we're joined by a head and neck surgeon and a speech-language pathologist from the University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital who have built a self-dilation program that is changing lives for head and neck cancer patients with recurrent...
395 – When Pureed Food Tastes Better Than Your Dinner: Inside Mama Gourmet’s Mission to Change the Game
On this episode of the Swallow Your Pride podcast, Theresa sits down with Kelly Kalseth, founder and CEO of Momma Gourmet, a company that is changing what pureed meals look and taste like for people with swallowing disorders. Kelly's journey started in 2015 when her...
394 – Pressure, Pumps, and the UES:The Case for Pharyngeal Manometry in Clinical Practice
On this episode, Theresa sits down with Dr. Diane Longnecker, Assistant Professor at Baylor University and clinical researcher at Baylor Scott and White, and Jamie Anderson, medical SLP and clinical instructor at the University of South Florida, to talk about...
393 – Clinks, Clunks, and Clinical Confidence: Rethinking Cervical Auscultation – Julie Cichero BA, BSpThy(Hons), PhD
On this episode, Theresa sits down with Julie Cichero BA, BSpThy(Hons), PhD, a clinician, researcher, and one of the foremost experts in dysphagia with over 30 years of experience, to talk about something that has had a complicated reputation in our field: cervical...
392 – The Surprising Truth About Thickened Liquids: What Patients Really Want with Naturally Nectar
On this episode of Swallow Your Pride, Theresa sits down with Ally Roberts, M.S., CCC-SLP, to talk about dysphagia management, patient-centered care, and the story behind Naturally Nectar. Ally shares what years in acute care, inpatient rehab, and outpatient swallow...
391 – From Exercise Science to Swallowing Success: A New Approach to Dysphagia Rehabilitation
In this episode, Theresa interviews Dr. Yvette McCoy, Assistant Professor at Moravian University, about her research on the connection between physical performance and swallowing function in older adults. Dr. McCoy discusses her dissertation, which found that upper...
390 – SLP Billing Changes: Breaking Down the 92507 Proposal
The proposed changes to CPT code 92507 have sparked a lot of discussion across the SLP community. Many clinicians are seeing numbers circulating online and understandably feeling worried about what this might mean for reimbursement and clinical practice. In this...
389 – Respiratory–Swallow Coordination in Parkinson’s: What the Research Actually Shows
In this episode of Swallow Your Pride, Theresa sits down with Dr. Rabab Rangwala, PhD, CCC-SLP, to explore the science behind respiratory–swallow coordination in Parkinson’s disease and what it means for clinical practice. They dive into how breathing patterns can...