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Rebecca Francis is a speech pathologist, PhD Candidate and Associate Lecturer at Flinders University, South Australia. 

Rebecca’s PhD research project will investigate how the mild-moderate cognitive impairment associated with Motor Neuron Disease impacts on swallowing function over the course of MND progression. She will employ high resolution impedance manometry to instrumentally assess swallowing function in MND, as well as qualitatively investigate how these changes impact on the quality of life for people with MND, their carers and families.

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality

Education/Academic qualification

Bachelor (Honours), The effect of bolus volume on the biomechanics of swallowing in the healthy elderly, using high-resolution pharyngeal manometry with impedance, Flinders University

Award Date: 18 Apr 2019

Keywords

  • RZ Other systems of medicine
  • Dysphagia
  • Deglutition
  • Swallowing
  • Speech Pathology
  • Motor Neurone Disease
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
  • Cognition

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