DRS - Dysphagia Research Society #Dash4Dysphagia

Please join us Monday June 10, 2024 from 5:00-8:00pm for our 1st Annual Swallowing Symposium on-line and in-person! 

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In honor of Dysphagia Awareness Month, the USF Joy McCann Culverhouse Center for Swallowing Disorders will present an interdisciplinary panel of speech-language pathologists and physicians sharing current assessment and treatment options to improve clinical care and outcomes for our patients with dysphagia.  In this workshop, participants will be able to incorporate assessment strategies during modified barium swallow studies (MBSS) to better explain patient complaints when findings initially appear normal.  Additionally, they will identify how SLPs serve a critical role in a multidisciplinary swallowing team.  Finally, participants will be able to describe features of several esophageal disorders and summarize their medical and surgical management options. Because swallowing is a multiphase function, a combined team approach to dysphagia management can provide a more timely, robust, and effective response to our patients with dysphagia. This course will highlight a team approach to dysphagia management through didactic learning and case presentations. 

Time Ordered Agenda: 

• 5:30-5:40 Welcome and Introduction (Joy Gaziano, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S)
• 5:40-6:00 “I have dysphagia, but my MBS says I don’t!” (Joy Gaziano, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S)
• 6:00-6:20 Tools of the GI Trade (Dr. Sujka)
• 6:20-6:40 Reflux concepts made easy to digest (Dr. Jacobs)
• 6:40-7:00 What lies below: esophageal causes of dysphagia (Dr. Slone)
• 7:00-7:20 Cut it out: surgical management of esophageal dysphagia  (Dr. DuCoin, MD, MPH, FSAGES, FASMBS, FACS)
• 7:20-7:40 An SLP, GI and GI Surgeon walk into a bar… Multidisciplinary Case Management (Jaimie Anderson, MS, CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS)
• 7:40-8:00 Panel Discussion and Closing Comments (Moderator: Bailey Blankenship, APRN)

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