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DESCRIPTION:Heather Flowers\, PhD - Post-stroke dysphagia and communication
  impairments: implications for cross-system management in the acute settin
 g\n\nDr. Flowers will discuss her recent research aimed at identifying the
  co-occurrence and predictors of swallowing and communication impairments 
 in the acute stage of stroke. She will describe associations between the i
 mpairments and demographic\, clinical\, and MRI factors (acute lesions and
  chronic brain disease). Using case presentations\, Dr. Flowers will explo
 re clinical implications in light of recent expert consensus from the firs
 t international Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable (SRRR\, 2016
 ).\n\nBiography:\n\nHeather Flowers has worked as a speech-language pathol
 ogist for over 10 years in multiple health care environments\, ranging fro
 m the emergency room to ambulatory and long-term care. Prior to undertakin
 g studies in speech-language pathology\, she obtained a Master of Educatio
 n and taught English as a foreign language in the School of Continuing Stu
 dies and in the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto. O
 ver the years\, she developed and honed her teaching methodology and engag
 ed in curriculum development initiatives.\n\nSubsequently\, Heather Flower
 s undertook both her Master of Health Science and PhD in the department of
  Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Toronto.  Her doctoral stu
 dies\, supervised by Dr. Rosemary Martino in the Swallowing Laboratory\, c
 entered on post-stroke swallowing and associated communication impairments
  within a clinical epidemiological framework. As part of her PhD studies\,
  Heather received training at the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sc
 iences\, Sunnybrook Campus\, Toronto. After completing her PhD\, Heather F
 lowers continued to work as a Clinical Research Coordinator and Speech-Lan
 guage Pathologist at the University Health Network in Toronto. She joined 
 the University of Ottawa\, School of Rehabilitation Sciences in November\,
  2016.\n\n \n
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DTEND:20180226T233000Z
LOCATION:SADB 2/36\, Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building\, CA\, QC\, 
 Montreal\, H3A 0C7\, 3640 rue University
SUMMARY:SCSD Special Lecture / Winter 2018 
URL:/scsd/channels/event/scsd-special-lecture-winter-2
 018-283599
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