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New Haven, Connecticut, United States

• Oversee speech pathologists providing adult and pediatric services across multiple treatment sites• Manage daily administrative operations including staffing and scheduling• Advise staff in troubleshooting any clinical or administrative matters • Mentor staff in achieving their clinical and professional objectives • Foster positive relationships with medical professionals across the health system to expand departmental services• Collaborate with health system leadership to establish and fulfill goals for program development• Ensure excellent customer service through ongoing communication with administrative staff and patients • Continue to carry out duties of a Staff Speech Pathologist while managing a patient caseload

New Haven, Connecticut

• Evaluate and treat adult patients with dysphagia, voice disorders, cognitive-communication disorders, aphasia, and motor speech disorders• Provide assessment and intervention across diverse settings including acute care, outpatient otolaryngology clinic, and outpatient head and neck cancer clinic• Conduct instrumental evaluations including FEES and MBS to diagnose dysphagia type and severity• Utilize acoustic and aerodynamic software to conduct voice evaluations and develop functional treatment plans • Provide alaryngeal communication intervention including training on the use of an electrolarynx, production of tracheoesophageal speech, and education on stoma care • Manage tracheoesophageal voice prostheses in the laryngectomee population through initial prosthesis fitting and placement, routine prosthesis changes, and emergent prosthesis changes• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to develop treatment plans for patients with head and neck cancer• Lead and participate in department-wide journal article reviews and case studies • Modified outpatient documentation procedures to streamline workflow and to ensure that billing and documentation are compliant with the regulations set forth by private and public insurance providers • Established the use of teletherapy in the outpatient setting

Hartford County, Connecticut, United States

Hartford HospitalHelen & Harry Gray Cancer Center• Assisted in the evaluation and treatment of adult patients with dysphagia, voice disorders, cognitive-communication disorders, aphasia, and motor speech disorders

Farmington, Connecticut, United States

Voice and Speech Clinic of UConn Health • Assisted in the evaluation and treatment of adult patients with voice disorders.

UConn Speech and Hearing Clinic• Administered evaluations and provided treatment to a diverse population in both individualized and group treatment sessions

Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Hartford HospitalHelen and Harry Gray Cancer Center• Assisted in the provision of alaryngeal communication intervention including training on the use of an electrolarynx, production of tracheoesophageal speech, and education on stoma care• Assisted in the management of tracheoesophageal voice prostheses in the laryngectomee population through routine prosthesis changes• Provided an in-service for staff delivering care to patients status post total laryngectomy

Farmington, Connecticut, United States

UConn John Dempsey Hospital• Completed a clinical rotation directed towards orienting graduate students to the acute care setting

Master'S Degree, Speech-Language Pathology

Bachelor'S Degree, Speech, Language, And Hearing Sciences