Neurogenic Dysphagia

Tobias Warnecke is Professor of Neurology at the department of Neurology, University of Muenster (Director: Prof. Dr. H. S. Wiendl), head of the section for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders. Dr. Warnecke acts in several Guideline committees dealing with problems related to neurologically ill patients (Parkinson’s disease and atypical Parkinsonism, feeding and nutrition in clinical neurology, diagnosis and therapy of stroke-related dysphagia, FEES in neurology) of the German Society of Neurology, the German Stroke Society and the German Society for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement disorders. He is member of several German and international Societies as well, and is author of peer-reviewed articles, letters and case histories, reviews, guideline publications, 2 books and 6 book chapters. Dr. Warnecke has also a peer-review activity for international journals such as Movement Disorders, Stroke, Neurology, JNNP, Acta Neuropathologica, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Parkinsonism and related Disorders, Dysphagia.

Rainer Dziewas is a Professor of Neurology at the university hospital Muenster, Germany, where he is the head of the stroke unit and the neurological intensive care unit. Rainer Dziewas is a Fellow of the European Stroke Organization (ESO), board member of the European Society for Swallowing Disorders (ESSD) and vice-chairman of the German Dysphagia Society. He holds visiting professorships at the Fujita Health University, Nagoya, Japan, the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium and the Sun-Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, China. He is a member of national and international guideline-committees and author of several peer-reviewed articles, reviews and books. He has significantly contributed to the development of the German FEES-curriculum and the ESSD-FEES accreditation program.

Dr. Susan Langmore is Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology, Boston University School of Medicine. She was formerly Clinical Professor, Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences. Over the years, she has held a full clinical case load in addition to teaching at Boston University. She currently is conducting research in several areas related to dysphagia and is based out of California. She is best known for developing the FEES procedure and she has taughtmany clinicians how to become proficient in using this procedure. She is also well known for her research in aspiration pneumonia. Recently, she completed a clinical trial with head/neck cancer patients. She has been awarded Fellow of ASHA and Honors of the Association. She is on the Editorial Board of the journal Dysphagia. This year, Dr Langmore is President of the Dysphagia Research Society.