In this week’s episode, Gaylea Fritsch, Vic Branch Professional Education committee member, chats with Chris Payten, Advanced Speech Pathologist at Gold Coast Hospital and PhD candidate at the University of Sydney.

Chris explores his current PhD research in the area of voice disorder classification and implementing a primary telehealth assessment model for voice disorders.

Chris’s telehealth study protocol has recently been published and can be accessed here:

Payten CL, Nguyen DD, Novakovic D, O’Neill J, Chacon A, Weir KA, and Madill CJ.

Telehealth voice assessment by speech language pathologists during a global pandemic using principles of a primary contact model: an observational cohort study protocol.

BMJ Open 2022;12:e052518. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052518

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/1/e052518

Look out for Chris’s upcoming publication:

Payten CL, Chiapello G, Weir KA and Madill CJ.

Frameworks, Terminology and Definitions used for the Classification of Voice Disorders: A Scoping Review. Journal of Voice. In Press.

For further information, Chris can be contacted on: [email protected]

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