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As members of the Veterans Health Administration's multidisciplinary task force, ASHA members played a key role in helping develop its set of dysphagia policies and guidelines. Serving on the task force were Stephanie Daniels (co-chair), Micaela Cornis-Pop, Kathy Groves-Wright, Carrie McBreen, Barry Klor, Cathy Lazarus (External Consultant), Joe Murray, Carol Stach, and Paula Sullivan (co-chair). External VHA consultants were Caryn Easterling, Jeri Logemann, JoAnne Robbins, and Jay Rosenbek. Hank Mills, Joe Murray, and JoAnne Robbins represented speech-language pathology in discussions with dietitians on diet standardization, National Dysphagia Diet, and the appropriate use of pre-thickened liquids for inpatients and residents and thickening agents for outpatients.
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