The penultimate talk in the Trans-Oral Robotics webinar series will focus on the functional outcome of patients following TORS. Our invited experts in the field of Swallowing Therapy will give us an overview on swallowing assessments, pre-habilitation, and rehabilitation.

Aims

In this webinar, we would like the attendees to become familiar with the subjective and objective swallowing assessments used by our SLT colleagues and understand the swallowing outcome of TORS oropharyngectomy and how this compares with traditional treatment.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this webinar, attendees should:

• Be familiar with subjective and objective swallowing assessments used
• Be aware of the swallowing outcomes of TORS oropharyngectomy as described in the literature
• Be aware of the pre-habilitation and re-habilitation techniques used by SLTs.

Our panellists include:

Miss Diane Sellstrom - MClinRes, BSc(Hons), MRCSLT. Diane is the Lead Speech and Language Therapist at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne. She balances clinical, academic and managerial roles and is currently doing a part-time secondment with the NIHR North-East and North Cumbria, Applied Research Collaboration as a practitioner research fellow. Her research focus is around the late effects of head and neck cancer treatment but she is involved in several other projects relating to HNC. Other interests include clinical leadership and clinical ethics.

Miss Laura-Jayne Watson - MClinRes, BSc (Hons), MRCSLT. Laura-Jayne is the Clinical Lead Head & Neck Speech & Language Therapist at Sunderland Royal Hospital, and has recently been awarded a NIHR doctoral clinical academic fellowship (DCAF). Her DCAF will focus on co-designing a laryngectomy education and training package for community healthcare professionals. Laura-Jayne also continues with clinical work and is actively involved in numerous live national and international research projects.

Professor Joanne Patterson - PhD, MSc, BSc(Hons), FRCSLT. Jo is Professor of Speech & Language Therapy at the University of Liverpool, balancing her time between clinical and academic activities. She leads the Survivorship theme at the Liverpool Head and Neck Centre. She is a Fellow and Professional Advisor for RCSLT; represents SLT on the NIHR ENT national specialty group, and is a member of the NIHR Academy.

Miss Nashreen Oozeer (Chair)- Miss Nashreen Oozeer is a H&N consultant at Sunderland Royal Hospital. She is a member of the RCSEd Otolaryngology Surgical Specialty Board and the H&N representative on the Robotic Taskforce. She is faculty on a number of national courses including the RCSEd Essentials in Robotics. She is the Patient Information lead for ENTUK and is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate training.

Ms Sarah Healy (Chair) - Sarah Healy is an ENT Head and Neck Surgeon at James Cook University Hospital Middlesbrough. She is Deputy Chair of the RCSEd Younger Fellows Fellows’ Committee, a member of the ENT SSB and part of the Robotic Task force group.

CPD

1 Hour