Dysphagia Assessment and Treatment Planning Workbook

Julie Barkmeier-Kraemer, PhD, CCC-SLP is a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology AAAA Head and Neck Surgery at the University of California, Davis. She is also a member of the Voice-Speech-Swallowing Center team, an affiliated member of the Center for Neuroscience and member of the faculty for the Neuroscience Graduate Group. Dr. Barkmeier-Kraemer received her undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Iowa and completed postdoctoral research with Dr. Christy Ludlow at the National Institutes of Health. She served on the faculty for 14 years in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences faculty at the University of Arizona where she developed and taught a graduate course in Dysphagia. Dr. Barkmeier-Kraemer is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and is also an ASHA Fellow. Dr. Barkmeier-KraemerAAA's primary research addresses the sensorimotor controls of the larynx for respiration, voicing, and swallowing.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Rebecca Leonard, PhD is a professor in the Dept. of Otolaryngology/HNS at the University of California, Davis. She is also the Clinical Director of the Voice-Speech-Swallowing Center in the ENT Clinic at the U. C. Davis Medical Center. Her clinical and research interests are in the areas of voice and swallowing. A particular focus has been the videofluoroscopic investigation of normal and disordered swallowing, including changes in swallowing associated with aging. Other research areas have included the effects of ablative procedures on speech, and tissue changes in the vocal folds associated with aversive stimuli. Dr. Rebecca Leonard received her undergraduate training at Indiana University. Her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are from Purdue University. She is a member of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, and she is an ASHA Fellow.