Anna is a speech-language pathologist trained at McGill University and a member of the Ordre des orthophonistes et audiologistes du Québec (OOAQ), Anna worked for 12 years at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) before joining the ENT Specialty Group Clinic. Anna was an important member of the dysphagia clinic at the Royal Victoria Hospital, throughout her career, Anna has also participated in expert voice and swallowing panels at ENT conferences, supervised several trainees, and, as an affiliate faculty member of McGill University’s School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, helped teach master’s students in speech-language pathology. Over the years, Anna has developed several areas of expertise, including the assessment and treatment of people suffering from:
- Voice disorders linked, for example, to: lesions (nodules, polyps…), muscular adaptations following infections, vocal cord paralysis, thyroid surgery, head and neck cancer, etc, secondary to a neurodegenerative disease (Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, ALS, etc.), non-optimal use of vocal muscles, etc.
- Swallowing disorders resulting from head and neck cancers, strokes, brain cancers, traumatic accidents, and neurodegenerative diseases (such as Parkinson’s disease, dementia, multiple sclerosis).
- Chronic coughing and throat clearing, Speech articulation disorders and Myofunctional Orofacial Disorders (MOOD)
