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NeuroNines: Thakre & Cameron

Thursday, June 30, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring Postdoctoral fellow Prajwal Thakre (mentor: David Fuller) and PhD student Miles Cameron (mentor: Andrew Judge). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007) or via Zoom: https://bit.ly/3wpIuM9.

NeuroNines: Mir & Olsen

Thursday, June 23, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring Doctoral candidate Michela Mir (mentor: Karen Hegland) and Postdoctoral fellow Wendy Olsen (mentor: Nick Napoli). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007) or via Zoom: https://bit.ly/3wpIuM9.

NeuroNines: Mickle & Nguyen

Thursday, June 16, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring PhD student Alyssa Mickle (mentor: Erica Dale) and Doctoral fellow Branden Nguyen (mentor: Ashley Smuder). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007) or via Zoom: https://bit.ly/3wpIuM9.

BREATHE Trainee Alicia Vose Advocates for “Fearless” Dysphagia Treatment

Alicia Vose, PhD, CCC-SLP, a BREATHE postdoctoral associate, was recently featured on the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association podcast, ASHA Voices. In this episode, Dr. Vose and her co-presenter, Ed Bice, MEd, CCC-SLP, clinical consultant, IOPI Medical LLC, advocate for taking the fear out of dysphagia treatment. They discuss what…

NeuroNines: Parks & Kelly

Thursday, June 9, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring PhD candidate Brandon Parks (mentor: Aysegul Gunduz) and PhD student Mia Kelly (mentor: Gordon Mitchell). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007) or via Zoom: https://bit.ly/3wpIuM9.

NeuroNines: Welch & Donohue

Thursday, June 2, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring postdoctoral fellows Joseph Welch (mentors: Gordon Mitchell & Emily Fox) and Cara Donohue (mentor: Emily Plowman). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007) or via Zoom: https://bit.ly/3wpIuM9.

Cara Donohue Awarded Sumiko Okada Fellowship

BREATHE T32 trainee, Dr. Cara Donohue, was awarded the prestigious Sumiko Okada International Fellowship from the Dysphagia Research Society for her work was “Comparison of Validated Outcomes of Swallowing Efficiency: Perceptual Ordinal DIGEST Versus Quantitative Pixel-Based ASPEKT Ratings of Pharyngeal Residue.” This…

NeuroNines: Barrutia & Hart

Thursday, May 19, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring PhD students Sebastian Barrutia (mentor: Daniel Ferris) and Cora Hart (mentor: Lee Sweeney). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007) or via Zoom: https://bit.ly/3wpIuM9.

NeuroNines: Olarewaju & Norris

Thursday, May 12, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs will host a NeuroNines session featuring PhD students Tinuade Olarewaju (mentor: Emily Fox) and Alessandra Norris (mentor: Daniel Kopinke). Join us live in the Communicore Building (C1-007).

BREATHE at APS Annual Meeting

BREATHE members and trainees were in full force at the first American Physiological Society in-person annual meeting in two years. Beyond presenting nearly 30 posters and 8 oral presentations, BREATHE helped sponsor the Control of Breathing Mixer: Hot Topics in Respiratory Control, organized the Experimental Biology Trainee Highlights Breakfast, and…