Nogah Nativ-Zeltzer is a speech language pathologist and faculty member at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Nativ Zeltzer holds a BA from Haifa University and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She conducted her postdoctoral training at the University of California Davis, where she was the recipient of the Dickenson Fellowship. Dr. Nativ-Zeltzer’s research focuses on the prevention and treatment of swallowing disorders and aspiration pneumonia in older adults.

Sarah Wallace OBE FRCSLT is a Consultant Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester, UK, and a Manchester Academic Health Sciences (MAHSC) Honorary Clinical Chair at the University of Manchester. Sarah splits her time between clinical work in ICU and research and teaching. She has over 30 years clinical experience as an SLT, working in Bristol, Wales and Manchester in the UK, in Singapore, and for NGOs in Grenada and Cambodia. She is clinical expert in complex dysphagia, FEES, critical care and the laryngeal complications of intubation and tracheostomy. She set up the first FEES services in Asia at Tan Tock Seng hospital in Singapore 25yrs ago, and in the UK at Wythenshawe hospital and has led on the development of FEES training and national RCSLT policy. As an RCSLT Specialist Advisor for over 20 years, she has contributed to many national and international guidelines and her research and publications have won awards from the Intensive Care Society, British Medical Journal, ASHA and IJLCD. She mentors post-graduate SLTs in the UK and Australia and is an Associate Editor for JICS. She is the UK National Tracheostomy Safety Project SLT lead, and produced teaching videos, podcasts and webinars which have had a  worldwide impact on clinical practice. Sarah sits on the Intensive Care Society Professional Advisory Group, NCEPOD ‘rehabilitation after critical illness’ expert group, UK Swallowing Research Group and the RCSLT Tracheostomy Clinical Excellence Network committee’s and is a Board member of the ESSD and the Global Tracheostomy Collaborative. She is passionate about dysphagia service development, and promoting equity of access, particularly in LMI nations. She is working with SLTs in Mexico, Chile, Portugal, Sweden and India currently. Sarah was awarded an OBE in the Queens Honour list in 2020, an RCSLT fellowship in 2021 and an honorary Masters in Public Health in 2023 for her contributions to SLT and the NHS.

Michelle Cimoli, PhD, is a speech pathologist at Austin Health in Melbourne, Australia. She is also a casual member of the teaching and practice faculty in the speech pathology discipline at La Trobe University. Michelle has worked with people who experience swallowing difficulties associated with a range of health conditions and in a variety of clinical settings. She is currently working in the Radiotherapy Unit to support people who are undergoing radiotherapy for head and neck cancer. Michelle completed her doctoral research La Trobe University. Her research focused on developing and validating a new FEES assessment tool. Michelle runs FEES education/training programs and provides mentoring and supervision to speech pathologists. She is a member of a number of collaborations and working groups relating to practice areas such as dysphagia standards, oral health, and ethics.

Dr. Martin Brodsky is Section Head, Speech-Language Pathology in Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at Cleveland Clinic and Adjunct Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.  His research is funded by the NIH studying the effects of critical illness and critical care medicine on swallowing and the airway.

Federico Masserano Zoli is a physician, degree at University of Genoa, specialized in audiology and phoniatry at the University of Milan. He had a second degree master in management and economic systems in healthcare at university of Genoa. Actually he is the head of the service of audiology and phoniatry of the AISM (Italian association of multiple sclerosis) in Genoa, focused on the diagnosis and rehabilitation of dysphagia in neurodegenerative illness such as MS, ALS and SMA. He lives in Genoa, he is married and he has a child.

Stephanie Somers is a speech-language pathologist with a professional interest in adult acquired communication disorders and neurogenic dysphagia. She obtained her Master of Clinical Science, Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) from Western University, London, Ontario. Canada in 2003. Stephanie works in London Ontario as a Lecturer and Clinical Educator in Western’s S-LP program, and as clinician at London Health Sciences Centre, a large acute care teaching hospital.

Elizabeth Montgomery is a Speech and Language Therapist in London, England. She is a Clinical Specialist in Critical Care, working between St George’s University Hospital NHS Trust and London Bridge Hospital, HCA Healthcare. Elizabeth has a special interest in dysphagia and tracheostomised and ventilated patients.

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Kyriaki Kyriakou, SLP.D., CCC-SLP is a special scientist at the Department of Rehabilitation at the Cyprus University of Technology and an adjunct professor at the Speech Language Pathology Department at Nova Southeastern University.  Her clinical and research interests are in the areas of voice and dysphagia. She actively publishes and lectures in these clinical areas. She is a co-author of the book “Fast Facts: Neurogenic Dysphagia.” She has clinical expertise in evaluating and treating neonates, infants, children, adolescents, and adults with feeding and swallowing problems.  She is also a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.