Heike Penner
University of Heidelberg
Germany
Biography
Heike Penner is a Speech Language Therapist (SLT) with 27 years of work experience in Neurologic and Geriatric Clinics. She has completed her MSc and PhD at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and has participated in several research projects on Dysarthria in Parkinson’s Disease and Dysphagia in Geriatric Patients. She has published 12 papers and book chapters in the area of Dysarthria and Dysphagia and has given talks and presented posters at German and international conferences. She is a Member of the dBL (German Association of SLTs) and the AEM (German Academy of Ethics in Medicine).
Abstract
Abstract : A severe case of undiagnosed dysphagia caused by scleroderma