Professor Edie Hapner, currently Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, United States. She is an internationally renowned researcher and speech-language pathologist in the field of voice and swallowing disorders. Prof. Hapner has published a competency based program for flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) and developed a training DVD for FEES (by Plural Publishing Inc.)