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Congratulations to our Director Dr. James Curtis, PhD and Colleagues on Publishing their New Research on Low-Cost Manometer for Objective Assessments of Respiratory Muscle Strength

December 7, 2023

Concurrent Validity of a Low-Cost Manometer for Objective Assessments of Respiratory Muscle Strength

Novel research, by Weill Cornell Medical's Dr. James Curtis, Ph.D., and colleagues Valentina Mocchetti, MS, CCC-SLP, and Anaïs Rameau, MD showed the industry-standard method for assessing...

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Dr. James Curtis, Director of the AIR Lab, presents as an invited speaker on the topic of “Respiratory-Swallow Coordination in People with Parkinson’s Disease” at the NYU CSD Colloquium.

November 2, 2023

On October 24th, the Communicative Sciences and Disorders (CSD) Program at NYU hosted it’s second colloquium of the season, with Dr. James Curtis (Director of the AIR Lab) as the keynote invited speaker. Dr. Curtis presented research on the interaction between breathing and swallowing in people with Parkinson’s disease and discussed his research on novel treatments to improve swallow function in people with Parkinson’s disease through respiratory-swallow coordination training. This...

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Dr. James Curtis, Director of the AIR Lab, presents on the topic of “Evaluation and Treatment of Reflex and Voluntary Cough” at the inaugural New York City Dysphagia Symposium.

November 2, 2023

On October 20th and 21st of 2023, Dysphagia Café, a popular blog site with a wide-reaching international audience comprised mainly of dysphagia-specialized speech-language pathologists, hosted its inaugural New York City Dysphagia Symposium at Lenox Hill Hospital. This two-day conference was attended by over 250 dysphagia-treating clinicians with 26 nationally and internationally invited speakers. Dr. Curtis had the honor of presenting on the evaluation and treatment of reflex and...

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Congratulations to WMC OHNS' Drs. James Curtis (PhD/SLP) and Anaïs Rameau (MD), who were invited as international guest speakers at the 5th international Dysphagia Symposium and JSDR conferences September 2nd and 5th in Japan

September 26, 2023

September was an exciting and productive month for Dr. James Curtis (PhD, CCC-SLP), director of the Aerodigestive Innovations Research Lab (AIR), and Dr. Anaïs Rameau (MD), director of The Laryngology Innovations Lab, from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. The two colleagues traveled to Japan to present their work at two highly attended international dysphagia (swallowing) conferences. They were among five internationally invited guest...

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Congratulations to our Director Dr. James Curtis, PhD and Colleagues on Publishing their New Research on Auditory-Perceptions of Cough!

September 14, 2023

Auditory-Perceptual Assessments of Cough: Characterizing Rater Reliability and the Effects of a Standardized Training Protocol

Novel research, by Weill Cornell Medical's Dr. James Curtis, Ph.D., and colleagues from Teacher's College, Columbia University characterized the reliability of auditory-perceptual assessments of cough amongst a group of novice clinicians. Secondarily, they assessed the effects of a...

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