Annual Swallowing Symposium
Symposium Research Archive 2024-2025
In honor of Dysphagia Awareness Month, USF and TGH host an annual swallowing symposium designed to bring together professionals interested in advancing the assessment and management of swallowing disorders. This interdisciplinary symposium welcomes clinicians, trainees, and students from multiple fields, including speech-language pathology, gastroenterology, otolaryngology, psychology, surgery, and other related disciplines. Explore highlights from past Swallowing Symposiums at your leisure!
We are pleased to offer free access to webinar recordings as an educational resource for clinicians and learners. Please note that continuing education units (CEUs) and continuing medical education creds (CMEs) are awarded exclusively to live attendees of the USF TGH Swallowing Symposium and not available for recorded content.
Symposium 2025
Learning Objectives
As a result of participating in this activity, learners should be able to:
Describe multidisciplinary roles of dysphagia management
Discuss interdisciplinary diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for Upper Esophageal Sphincter (UES) dysfunction
Outline interdisciplinary lung transplant swallowing considerations.
Explain how to integrate multidisciplinary interventions for individuals with functional swallowing disorders.
Recognize appropriate treatment plan given clinical cases of complex patients with swallowing disorders.
Recorded Sessions Archive 2025
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Session 1 - Multidisciplinary understanding of swallowing and dysphagia
Session 2 - Interdisciplinary approaches to upperesophageal sphincter dysfunction
UES Function and Dysfunction Demystified - Diane Longnecker, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Complex Proximal Esophageal Strictures - Rene D. Gomez-Esquivel, MD, FFGS
Double Balloon Upper Esophageal Sphincter (UES) Dilation - Yassmeen Abdel-Aty, MD
Session 3 - Assessing and managing functional swallowing disorders
Psychological Intervention for Functional Dysphagia - Rebecca Klam, PsyD
Gastroenterology & Functional Dysphagia - Camille Thélin, MD, MSc, FFGS
Functional Dysphagia: SLP Perspective - Jaimie Anderson, MS, CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS
Session 4 - Optimizing dysphagia management in lung transplant patients
Caution: Detour Can Be Unsafe - Debabrata Bandyopadhyay, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FACP, FCCP
A Bite of Caution...A Protocol Driven Approach to Post Lung Transplant
The Evaluation of GERD in our Lung Transplant Patients - John Jacobs, MD, FACG, FFGS
Session 5 - Case-based learning through grand rounds
Swallowing Symposium 2024
Learning Objectives
As a result of participating in this activity, learners should be able to:
Incorporate assessment strategies during modified barium swallow studies (MBSS) to better explain patient complaints when findings initially appear normal.
Identify the role of the speech-language pathologist as a critical member of a multidisciplinary swallowing team.
Explain the pathophysiology and medication options for gastroesophageal reflux (GERD)
Describe features of common structural and motility disorders of the esophagus which cause dysphagia
Contrast state-of-the-art medical and surgical options used by gastroenterologists and GI surgeons to optimize dysphagia outcomes.
Recorded Sessions Archive 2024
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