Hi there, fellow SLP!
I'm Brooke, a Medical SLP practicing in acute care and outpatient since 2009.
Working in healthcare throughout my entire career,
I experience the same challenges you do -- things like finding the right education and community to grow my clinical skills without giving up my precious non-SLP time.
My passion for bridging the gaps between research, education, and real-life clinical practice led me to create The Modern MedSLP... a specialized platform that offers specialized education, resources, and a supportive community to help you:
- Connect with a practicing clinician whose expertise you trust… and who also understands the challenges of working in the ever-changing healthcare climate
- Hone your clinical skills with digestible education that applies directly to the real world
- Meaningfully connect with other Medical SLPs in a supportive community
- Thrive personally and professionally by leaving behind groups that allow bullying or promote groupthink
- Practice as the confident SLP you envision yourself being!
Inside The Modern MedSLP, you’ll learn not only from me– a practicing MedSLP, educator, and mentor with more than 13 years of experience– you'll also learn from other experts.
When I'm not doing MedSLP things, I'm spending as much time as I can with my husband (who's... also a MedSLP 😅), our daughter, and our silly dog. You can also find me drinking coffee, taking pictures around town, and dreaming of my next travel destination.
Proud presenter for:
Areas of Expertise
- Mentoring SLPs & Graduate Students
- Settings: Acute care / ICU & Outpatient
- Clinical decision-making and critical thinking
- Medically-complex patients
- RMT (respiratory muscle strength training, including EMST)
- Trach/vent
- Swallowing / dysphagia; FEES & MBS/VFSS
- Neurogenic disorders
- Low-tech AAC
- Understanding medical contributions (labs, meds, diseases, etc)
- Collaboration
- Documentation
- Real Talk
- Being a Jack (Jill) of All Trades
- EBP (of course!)
SLP Kryptonites
- Laryngectomy (TEP changes, lary button/HME fittings, etc)
- High-tech AAC (device selection, etc)
- Videostroboscopy for voice
- Pediatrics
- Toxic positivity
