About this episode

Meryl Kaufman discusses her innovative voice rehabilitation product for laryngectomy patients.

Episode 190 - Meryl Kaufman is a speech-language pathologist with over 30 years of clinical practice specializing in speech and swallowing rehabilitation for patients with head and neck cancer. She has worked in multidisciplinary academic medical centers throughout the Southeast, including the Medical College of Georgia, the Medical University of South Carolina, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Emory University. She is also a co-founder and former long-term board member of the Head and Neck Cancer Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to prevention, early detection, and awareness of head and neck cancer. In 2018, she founded Georgia Speech and Swallowing, LLC, a company focused on national advocacy, outreach, education, and product development for individuals who have undergone laryngectomy surgery (removal of the voice box/larynx). She has recently developed, patented, and licensed an alternative method of voice production, offering a low-cost and accessible voice rehabilitation option for laryngectomy patients worldwide. She collaborated with Noah McNeely at Product QuickStart in developing the CAD designs and prototypes to support the product launch…

People in this episode

Host: Noah McNeely

Guest: Meryl Kaufman

Topics covered

• laryngectomy
• voice rehabilitation
• speech-language pathology
• head and neck cancer
• product development

Keywords

• laryngectomy
• voice production
• speech rehabilitation
• head and neck cancer
• medical innovation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Georgia Speech and Swallowing, LLC, Head and Neck Cancer Alliance, Product QuickStart

Places: Southeast, Medical College of Georgia, Medical University of South Carolina, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Emory University

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