This is episode 153 of the Swallier Pride Podcast, and today we have two guests.

We have Rory O'Brien and Candice Devlin.

And Rory O'Brien graduated from the University of Michigan

with a bachelor's in linguistics

and earned her master's degree

in Communication Sciences and Disorders

from the University of North Carolina.

She is a board certified specialist

in swallowing and swallowingallowing Disorders.

She has worked as a medical speech language pathologist

at Duke Regional Hospital in Durham, North Carolina

for nine years, evaluating and treating adults

in the acute care and acute rehabilitation settings.

She serves as a fee-basis employee at the Durham VA Medical Center where she also completed

her clinical fellowship in 2011.

Her primary area of interest is dysphasia, particularly in the medically complex

populations as well as neurogenic dysphasia. She has been instrumental in developing

and bringing respiratory muscle training and I'd see programs to Duke Regional Hospital.

Rory also has a passion for educating new clinicians and serves as the student coordinator for

graduate student clinicians at her hospital.

And joining Rory is her colleague, Candice.

Candice Devlin is a board certified specialist in swallowing and swallowing disorder.

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