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Dysphagia

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Dysphagia clinical

My clinical work as a speech-language therapist is organized from the department of Rehabilitation of the Radboud University Medical Centre, currently one day per week.
My primary expertise is assessment and management of oropharyngeal dysphagia as a consequence of stroke, head-neck cancer, mechanical ventilation, neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases, including dysphagia in Parkinson's disease.

To encourage the interdisciplinary approach of dysphagia in adults we published a manual for speech therapists, dieticians and nurses (in Dutch):

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Kalf H, Rood B, Dicke H, van Keeken P. 
Slikstoornissen bij volwassenen.Een interdisciplinaire benadering. 
Houten: Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum, 2008.

Click here for my clinical papers on dysphagia

On August 12, 2017 I had the honour to explain swallowing disorders cause by Parkinson's disease to a large groups of people with Parkinson's and their caregivers at the Education Centre of the Parkinson Voice Project in Richardseon, Texas.

In 2017 on the European Day of speech-language therapy (March 6) one of my patients and I were interviewed on national television. He suffered from Wallenberg's syndrome (lateral medullary infarct), but successfully recovered after intensive rehabilitation.

 


Dysphagia websites

In 2014, I launched two Dutch websites:

www.dysfagie.com for speech-swallow therapists and students.
www.moeilijkslikken.nl to support patients with their dysphagia diet.

Dysphagia research

See the research page  for my work on dysphagia research.

Scientific communities that I contribute to are:

DRS

 Dysphagia Research Society (DRS)
 upcoming congress: 14-17 March 2018, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

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 European Society for Swallowing Disorders (ESSD)
 upcoming congress: 20-23 September 2017, Barcelona, Spain.

Dysphagia courses

Click on the education page for my courses and invited lectureson dysphagia.