Jeannine Hoch, SLPD, CCC-SLP, CLC, is a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) with 20 years of experience in pediatric dysphagia, gathered across 4 different children’s hospitals. She currently works in the inpatient setting at the University of Virginia Health System Children’s Hospital. Her clinical and research interests include multidisciplinary aerodigestive care for children with complex dysphagia, feeding/ swallowing outcomes for infants and children with congenital heart disease, and improving health disparities through service delivery models. Her passion for improving clinical practice, supporting clinical research, and teaching led her to pursue the Doctor of Speech-Language Pathology degree through the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Institute of Health Professions. She firmly believes that bridging the gap between clinicians and research findings will optimize outcomes for medically fragile patients and advance the SLP field. Jeannine has co-authored several peer-reviewed articles. She serves as Co-Chair of the Pediatric Special Interest Group of the Dysphagia Research Society (DRS) and as the lead pediatric SLP for webinars within the Speech-Language-Hearing Association of Virginia’s (SHAV) feeding and swallowing group.

Meredith Puryear, CCC-SLP, is a passionate medical speech-language pathologist licensed in Virginia since 2020. I have a passion for working with the adult population. the settings I have experience in are: outpatient, skilled nursing facilities, long-term care facilities, respiratory rehab facilities, and end of life care. I currently provide dysphagia, aphasia, communication, language, speaking valve management, voice therapy, AAC, and more to the patient populations in six buildings across Virginia. I maintain a vested focus on our patients experiencing mechanical ventilation. I am the current adult co-chair for the SHAV Feeding and Swallowing Group collaborating to help provide medical-based continuing education opportunities for SLPs in Virginia across the lifespan.