About the contributor

• Jeri A. Logemann

Jeri A. Logemann

Dr Jeri Logemann is the Ralph and Jean Sundin Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and Professor of Otolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery and Neurology at Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago. She directs the Speech, Language, Voice and Swallowing Service at Northwestern University Medical School/Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Dr Logemann has received NIH funding for her research in the area of normal swallowing physiology and swallowing disorders for the past 25 years. She has authored several textbooks on evaluation of swallowing disorders. She is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and the Chicago Medical Society, and was President of ASHA in 1994 and 2000 and received Honors of the Association in 2003.