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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Managing Swallowing Dysfunction in Older People provides comprehensive coverage on oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD), focusing on older patient phenotypes. The book provides the knowledge needed for translational researchers and professionals to aid in the detection, diagnosis, treatment and management of OD, ultimately improving patient quality of life. OD has been recently considered a geriatric syndrome because of its high prevalence, the increase of life-expectancy and the need to be managed by a multidisciplinary approach. This reference takes a novel approach to OD, covering all aspects as a geriatric syndrome, examining a complicated and multi-level topic in a succinct way.
Contents include the most innovative information available in current literature combined with practical applications to improve the diagnosis and treatments of OD as a geriatric syndrome. This is the perfect reference for translational researchers, physicians and healthcare professionals dealing with OD.
About the author
Pere Clavé is a digestive surgeon, professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and Director of Research and Innovation at the Consorci Sanitari del Maresme. He has an extensive career in the world of research and more specifically in GI physiology.
Dr. Clavé is also the Founding President of the European Society for Swallowing Disorders (ESSD) and founder of the Fundació de Recerca en Gastroenterologia (Gastroenterology Research Foundation (FUREGA)).
He is also head of the Digestive Motility Department at Hospital de Mataró, a multidisciplinary unit that works in conjunction for the diagnosis, treatment and research of oropharyngeal dysphagia.
His proactivity in spreading knowledge on dysphagia to professionals from all over the word is well known: he is the director of the Master’s Degree and Postgraduate Diploma on Swallowing Disorders, multidisciplinary courses offered by the UAB; and he is also the coordinator of an online practicum available for SLP students at UAB focused on dysphagia.Omar Ortega is a postdoctoral researcher at Hospital de Mataró (Fundació Salut del Consorci Sanitari del Maresme) and affiliate partner of the Center for Biomedical Research in Hepatic and Digestive Diseases Network (CIBERehd, Instituto de Salud Carlos III; https://www.ciberehd.org).
Degree in Biology. Master’s Degree in Advanced Microbiology from the Universitat de Barcelona. Doctor in Medicine (2016) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
His research line has been focused on the respiratory complications of oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) in older patients, the study of the pathophysiology of OD in older and post-stroke patients with new neurophysiological approaches and the development of new neurorehabilition treatments for these patients.
