This is episode 217 of the Swallier Pride Podcast.

And today's guest, Teresa Viber Lamont has been working with patients with

Swallowing Disorder since 1996,

and as acute care and outpatient therapist.

She has served as an internship supervisor and mentor to young clinicians

from multiple universities and countries.

She has become an internationally recognized SLP and authority on Easton and dysphagia, and is the innovator behind the Byber Protocol, a protocol she developed in 1999 that has saved hundreds if not thousands of lives. She was the Electrotherapy expert consultant on a large multi-centered placebo controlled randomized clinical trial by the NIH and is also currently working on a large state of the art review as well as collaborating with a European company to develop a prototype for an EEG swallowing rehab system using a brain computer interface.

Trisa has lectured and saw extensively in the US and abroad in Asia, Europe and Latin America on the topics of

Eastim and headnet cancer and dysphasia.

There have been an estimated 1 million treatments using the Biber protocol worldwide with consistently reported excellent outcomes and no adverse events.

There have been three FDA cleared devices based on the Biro protocol with the fourth one in process.

Teresa is also cross-trained in a multitude of PT protocols

and has developed manual therapy techniques specific

for the post-radiation head-neck cancer patient,

but applicable for many patients.

Teresa has published multiple articles and was also awarded the 2014 employee recognition

by the physician medical staff at Broward Health and received the confident best in patient care by the American Health Council. She is also a chosen member of Cambridge who is who among executives and professionals.

Teresa has also served her community both in the States and abroad volunteering frequently with Habitat for Humanity and the Global Orkin Project in Haiti.

Her years of clinical practice in pursuit of humanitarian work has solidified her place among health care professionals.

She is well known and loved for her passion for her work and her compassion for others.

She deeply cares about the human condition and the impact of disease and

disorder on the social and psychological well-being of

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