Ianessa Humbert, PhD, CCC-SLP

Ianessa Humbert, Ph.D. is an accomplished scientist, professor, and highly sought-after speaker with expertise in swallowing and swallowing disorders.  With over 100 speaking invitations around the world, the most common feedback from attendees continues to be, “This is the first time a course has really forced me to think about what I’m doing.” Dr. Humbert’s teaching philosophy requires attendees to question everything they think they know before learning can begin.

Dr. Humbert’s innovative training style has been funded by ASHFoundation and extends to non-traditional learning formats, including the popular Down the Hatch podcast, her YouTube Channel, and STEP (Swallowing Training and Education Portal; lovingly known as Swallowing Netflix). 
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Dr. Humbert has been on faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the University of Florida, and the University of Iowa. The content from Dr. Humbert’s courses are supported by scientific evidence from her laboratory, from the larger body of research literature, and of course, through plenty of thoughtful problem-solving.

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I call it baby bird thinking... At some point in the learning process you need some source (a book, video, person, experience) to simply feed you the concrete basics. At this stage, that source has foraged, ingested, and regurgitated that information into you. But [we] eventually realize we need to seek knowledge on our own by ingesting, digesting, synthesizing, rethinking, and maybe abandoning ideas as time goes on.      ~ Episode 1

Meredith Harold, PhD, CCC-SLP

Dr. Harold is a former speech–language pathologist and university faculty. Currently she focuses entirely on science communication and leadership in speech-language pathology, and is best known for bridging the gap between clinical practice and science through The Informed SLP.

Leading 35 fellow clinicians and scientists, Dr. Harold and her team at The Informed SLP locate and translate our field's top clinical research, thereby reducing the overwhelm of the hundreds of papers published in SLPs' scope each month.

Dr. Harold is known for digging deeply and working tirelessly to ensure that clinicians in our field know our scientists' work, and that scientists are relying heavily on our field's expert clinicians to push the research forward and maximize benefits to the clients we serve.

Finally, Dr. Harold's work today would be impossible without the many years she spent as a school-based SLP and private practice owner, as well as her time as assistant professor at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, and teaching at The University of Kansas and Nova Southeastern University.

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I’m someone who’s obsessed with science, and the pursuit of information and truth. But I’m also someone who realizes that none of that means anything if you can’t also figure out how to deal with the humans who want to either apply or disregard it. So I spend most of my time trying to understand humans, honestly… because they’re the wild card.        ~ Episode 1

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