Swallowing Research Lab
Faculty
- Crary, Michael A.
- Faunce, Allison
- LaGorio, Lisa
- Lenius, Kerry
- Mann, Giselle
- Borse, Brian
- Carvajal, Pam
- Ohme, Catie
Michael A. Crary, Ph.D
Director
Michael A. Crary, PhD., is the director of the Swallowing Research laboratory and a Professor of Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Florida Health Science Center. Dr. Crary's current clinical and research interests focus on disorders of swallowing, specifically improving assessment and treatment strategies.
Current research projects include studies of the clinical and instrumental evaluation of dysphagia, characteristics of dysphagia in stroke patients, outcomes of dysphagia treatment in patients with head/neck cancer, and outcomes associated with electrical stimulation treatment for dysphagia. He has a long history as a practicing clinician and remains active in patient care. He has written and lectured extensively, including internationally, on these topics.
His most recent text is "The Introduction to Adult Swallowing Disorders". He has served as assistant director of the ASHA Special Interest Division #13: Dysphagia. He is a former nominee for the DiCarlo award from ASHA, a recipient of the Outstanding Clinical Achievement Award from ASHA, and has been elected as a Fellow of ASHA.
Allison Faunce B.A.
Linguistics / Research Coordinator
Allison Faunce is a Research Coordinator in the Swallowing Research Laboratory. She received her B.A. in Linguistics in 2001 and had over 10 years medical field work experience before joining the Swallowing Research Laboratory in 2005. Ms. Faunce assists both Dr. Crary and Dr. Mann with the daily operation of research projects. She maintains constant contact with off site clinical research facilities regarding the daily running of research projects. This includes the monitoring of subject eligibility, recruitment, data receipt, data entry, data cleaning, data completeness and coding, and basic review analysis. Ms. Faunce also works in collaboration with the research lab members to develop and maintain all IRB requirements. She monitors all IRB requirements such as subject recruitment statistics, adverse event reporting, subject completion and discharge reporting, and protocol adherence/deviations/violations.
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Lisa LaGorio, BA, MS/CCC-SLP
Research Assistant
Lisa LaGorio is a Research Assistant in the Swallowing Research Laboratory and Doctoral Student in the Department Rehabilitation Science-Communicative Disorders at the University of Florida. She has more than 10 years clinical experience as a medical Speech Language Pathologist with clinical expertise in adult and pediatric dysphagia rehabilitation, cognitive-linguistic rehabilitation after acquired brain injury, and vocal rehabilitation of the aging voice. She has experience in both endoscopic and fluoroscopic evaluations of swallowing. She has taught courses and lectured nationally in the area of dysphagia rehabilitation.
Ms. LaGorio's current research interests include epidemiology of swallowing and voice disorders in the geriatric population as well as the use of new technologies and treatment paradigms in the rehabilitation of dysphagia and dysphonia following stroke and head and neck cancer.
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Kerry Lenius, MS, CCC-SLP
Research Associate
Kerry Lenius is a Research Associate in the Swallowing Research Laboratory at UF and Doctoral Candidate at Florida State University with a primary interest in adult swallowing disorders. She has over 5 years of clinical experience as a speech-language pathologist working in acute care. She recently completed a memory treatment study "Spaced Retrieval: Cognitive Intervention for Traumatic Brain Injury" and was named a 2006 NIDCD Research Symposium Student Fellow in Clinical Aphasiology for this work. In the area of swallowing, she has conducted studies investigating lingual pressure generation in neurogenic dysphagia. She is currently assisting in research into the prevention of swallowing disability in head and neck cancer entitled "Muscle Preservation and Swallow Function Following Radiotherapy"
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Giselle Mann: B.App.Sci, P.Grad. Dip (Hsc), M.P.H., Ph.D, SLP-CCC
Co Director / Associate Research
Dr Mann is Co Director of the Swallowing Research Laboratory and Associate Research Scientist in the department of Behavioral Science and Community Health at the University of Florida. She has over 20 years clinical experience as a Speech-Language Pathologist and has worked extensively as a research associate in a neuroscience /stroke research trials unit in Western Australia.
She has been involved in a range of multi-national multi-centered research trials and has attracted continuous research funding since 1994. Dr. Mann's research focus lies in the rehabilitation of swallowing disorders following stroke and head/neck cancer. In addition, she specializes in research epidemiology and biostatistics and health promotion. She has been involved with a range of health and health related projects including, Better Hearing Australia and Second Hand Tobacco Smoke (SHTS) Awareness, Competency and Practice.
Dr Mann is the author of the M.A.S.A., a published examination of swallowing ability. She is currently a member of the National Stroke Council for the American Heart Association, and a Consultant for the Stroke Canada Optimization of Rehabilitation by Evidence (SCORE) project. Dr. Mann was awarded a research scholarship from the Curtin University in 1997 and the Mark Liverist Certificate of Excellence in Research in 1998. She is a past recipient of the Australian Brain Foundation's "Young Investigators Award" the Stroke Society of Australia's "Peter Bladin Award" and the Geoff Blee Award for excellence in research.
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