The mission of the Aerodigestive Innovations Research Lab (AIR) is to improve the health and quality of life of patients and caregivers with voice, cough, and swallowing disorders through clinical innovation, scientific discovery, multidisciplinary collaborations, and educational outreach. Our research aims to: (1) identify sensorimotor mechanisms of voice, cough, and swallowing function in healthy adults and across a range of diverse patient populations; and (2) to develop robust and impactful methods to evaluate and treat voice, cough, and swallowing disorders.
Through clinical innovation, creative thinking, open science, and collaborative discourse, we unlock the potential to a healthier future, where every challenge becomes an opportunity to improve health outcomes and enhance lives with compassion and excellence.
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Our Team
AIR welcomes motivated and collaborative speech-language pathology researchers, research assistants, clinicians, and trainees to aide in its mission to improve the health and quality of life of patients and caregivers with voice, cough, and swallowing disorders through clinical innovation, scientific discovery, multidisciplinary collaborations, and educational outreach.
Our Research
AIR employs a wide range of evaluation techniques in its investigation of normal and disordered voice, cough, and swallowing function and in its development of novel therapeutic interventions. Such techniques include flexible endoscopic evaluations of swallowing, laryngeal videostroboscopy, videofluoroscopic swallow studies, high resolution pharyngeal and esophageal manometry, surface electromyography, laryngeal electroglottography, respiratory inductive plethysmography, and computerized acoustic and aerodynamic analyses.