Kristine Galek, Ph.D. CCC-SLP

Summary

Dr. Galek received her bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas. She earned her master's degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and her doctoral degree from the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine. She holds the academic rank of assistant professor. She is also the Co-Director of the Northern Nevada Voice and Swallow Clinic and Director of the RAVSS Research Laboratory. Dr. Galek teaches undergraduate, and graduate courses and supervises clinical practicum in the areas of swallowing disorders, craniofacial disorders, resonance, endoscopy, pediatric feeding disorders, manometry, and voice disorders. Her research interests include swallowing disorders, voice disorders, and craniofacial disorders. She has published her research in scholarly journals and given oral presentations at the American Speech and Hearing Association annual convention, and the Florida Dysphagia Institute. Dr. Galek is a clinician who sees patients and works with students individually to develop clinical skills.

Professional Experience

• Acute care
• Long Term care
• Rehabilitation
• Private practice CEO and President/Small business practices
• School based assessment and intervention with the medically fragile
• Medically based early intervention assessment and intervention
• Research and Development consultant
• Pediatric swallow team consultant

Publications

Submitted manuscripts for Publication

Galek, K.E., Bice, E. (Submitted: Speech Language and Hearing: January 2021). The Influence Of Three Feedback Conditions On Learning A Swallow Motor Pattern In Healthy Adults

Publications-Refereed Journal Articles

Galek, K.E., *Allen, K., Bice, E. (2021). A Novel Protocol Designed to Treat Spastic Dysarthria: A Case Study. Perspectives of ASHA special interest groups; 1-11.

Bice, E. Galek, K.E. (2021). A Survey of Speech Pathologist Practice Patterns for Consulting Registered Dieticians When Recommending Diet Alterations. Speech-Language and Hearing

Galek, K.E., Bice, E. (2021). Tongue and lip comparisons between healthy and non-dysphagic post-stroke individuals. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopadica

*Romain D, *Evans LK, *Diaz Y, *Allen K, Galek K. Biofeedback Training Improves Swallowing in a Unique Case of Upper Esophageal Sphincter Hypotonicity. Laryngoscope. 2020 Oct 30. doi: 10.1002/lary.29226. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33125163.

*Heglar, T.,*Penrose, A. Yount, A.  Galek, K. Shen, Y. Dascalu, Harris, F., Jr. (2020). A Hardware and Software Prototype of the CTAR All-Star. International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA), Volume 27, No. 1.

*Heglar, T.,*Penrose, A. Yount, A.  Galek, K. Shen, Y. Dascalu, Harris, F., Jr. (2020). A Hardware and Software Prototype of the CTAR All-Star. International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA), Volume 27, No. 1.

Galek K., E, Bice E, M: The Influence of Surface Electromyography Visual and Clinician Verbal Feedback on Swallow Effort Ratio at Different Bolus Volumes in a Healthy Population. Folia Phoniatr Logop 2020. doi: 10.1159/000511497

*Allen, K., Galek, K. The Influence of Airflow Via High-Flow Nasal Cannula on Duration of Laryngeal Vestibule Closure. Dysphagia (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00455-020-10193

*Yount, A., *Henner, T., *Penrose, A., Galek, K., Harris, F. (2019). CTAR ALL-STAR. Proceedings of the ISCA 28th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE 2019) EPIC Series in Computing, Vol 64, Pg 21-30. September 30-October 2, San Diego, CA

Hansen, B., Galek, K.E., Fiore, D. (May 2019). Infant Tongue Cyst Producing Failure to Thrive and Respiratory Distress, Journal of Family Medicine

*Pollock, C., *Lopez, L, *Nambaugh, G., *Almanzar, L., *Morrissey, A., *Krings, K., Galek, K., Harris Jr., F. Avaler’s Adventure: an open source game for dysphagia therapy. Proceedings of the ISCA 26^th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE 2017); pp 25-30. ISBN 978-943436-09-5. October 2-4, San Diego, CA.

Galek, K.E., Watterson, T., Perceptual Anchors and the dispersion of nasality ratings, (2016). Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Journal, 54(4): 423-430.

Bice, E., Galek, K.E., (2016) The use of neuroplastic principles affects the swallow motor plan of a patient in severe cognitive decline: A case study, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Group Sig 15, Vol. 1(part 2), 79-83.

Galek, K.E. & Sumrall, A. (2016). The effect of a novel eclectic dysphagia intervention for head and neck cancer survivors, Annals of Otolaryngology, 3(12):1147.

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Publications-Refereed Abstracts

* Allen, K. & Galek, K. (2020) Penetration-Aspiration Scale Scores in Healthy Adults During High-Flow Nasal Cannula Use 28^th Dysphagia Research Society Annual Meeting, San Juan Puerto Rico

*Evans, L., *Diaz, Y., Galek, K. (2019, Nov.) High-Resolution Manometry Visual Biofeedback Improves UES Pressure after Injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chicago, IL.  

Galek, K., Watterson, T. (2014, April).  The effects of perceptual anchors on the relationship of nasality ratings in speech.  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 135(4): 2228: DOI: 10.1121/1.4877293.

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Publication-Educational material

Richards, M., Galek, K.E. (2015), Palermo, F., Escovedo, E.  Adjunctive sEMG for Dysphagia Rehabilitation (5 HR); ASHA CE, Reno: Accelerated Care Plus

Publications-Other Professional

Galek, K.E., Bice, E., Hobbs, A. (2016) Synchrony ^TM Surface Electromyography device assists therapists in the rehabilitation of swallow disorders, Today’s GeriatricMedicine www.todaysgeriatricmedicine.com/news/ex_021717.shtml

International and National Presentations

* Allen, K. & Galek, K. (2020) Penetration-Aspiration Scale Scores in Healthy Adults During High-Flow Nasal Cannula Use 28^th Dysphagia Research Society Annual Meeting, San Juan Puerto Rico

*Yount, A., *Henner, T., *Penrose, A., Galek, K., Harris, F. (2019). CTAR ALL-STAR. Proceedings of the ISCA 30^th International Conference of Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE 2019).

Galek, K.E. & Bice, E. (2019) Does a combination of verbal cues and visual feedback increase the intensity of effortful swallows in healthy normal? 27^th Dysphagia Research Society Annual Meeting, March, San Diego, CA.

Galek, K.E. & Bice, E. (2019). The effect of focus of attention and knowledge of expectancies in learning a novel swallow motor plan in healthy normal participants. 27^th Dysphagia Research Society Annual Meeting, March, San Diego, CA.

*Evans, L., *Diaz, Y., Galek, K. (2019, Nov.) High-Resolution Manometry Visual Biofeedback Improves UES Pressure after Injury [accepted] American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Annual Conference; Nov 7; Chicago, IL.

*Diaz, Y., *Evans, L., Galek, K. (2019). Life after a suicide attempt: Dysphagia and rehabilitation. Nevada Academy of Family Physicians. 51^st Annual winter meeting, Lake Tahoe, NV.

*Allen, K. & Galek, K. (2017). A combination of exercise and visual feedback improves intelligibility in a patient with spastic dysarthria. 62cd American Speech and Hearing Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA

*Pollock,C., *Lopez,L., *Nambaugh, G., *Almanza, L., *Morrissey, A., *Krings, K., Galek, K., Harris, F. (2017). Avaler’s Adventure: an open source game for dysphagia therapy. Proceedings of the ISCA 28^th International Conference of Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE 2017), October 2-4, San Diego, CA.

Galek, K., *Blauhauz, M.,* Kozlowski, R., *Garcia, J. (2017, March). Do electrode placements effect surface electromyography stability? 25^th Annual meeting of the Dysphagia Research Society, Portland, Or.

Galek, K., *Kozlowski, R., *Garcia, J., *Blauhauz, M. (2017, March). Does age, electrode placement, or visual feedback effect the command to swallow initiation of a normal typical swallow? 25^th Annual meeting of the Dysphagia Research Society, Portland, Or.

Hansen, B., Galek, K.E., Fiore, D. (2017, January).  Infant Tongue Cyst Producing Failure to Thrive and Respiratory Distress. CMEski conference, Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, CA.

Galek, K., *Grim, M., *Santin, T, *Losey, R.  (2016, March) Does age and gender effect the duration of the Mendelsohn Maneuver?  24^th Annual meeting of the Dysphagia Research Society, Tucson, AZ.

Galek, K., Watterson, T. (2014, April).  The effects of perceptual anchors on the relationship of nasality ratings in speech.  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.  135(4): 2228: DOI: 10.1121/1.4877293.

Galek, K., Watterson, T. (2014, March).  The effects of anchors on the relationship between nasality ratings and nasalance scores.  Seventy-first Annual Meeting of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, Indianapolis, IN.

Galek, K., Watterson, T. & Lewis, K. (2012, April).  The effects of training on the reliability of listener judgments of nasality.  Sixty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, San Jose, CA.

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Oral Presentations

Galek, K., Richards, M. (2014) Surface Electromyography In Clinical Practice: A Review.  2014 ASHA convention, Orlando, FL.

Richards, M., Galek, K. (2014) Strength Exercise for Speech Pathologists.  2014 ASHA convention, Orlando, FL.

Invited Oral Presentations

Stovak, M. & Galek, K. (Oct, 2018) Rarely is “wheezing” really wheezing-exercise induced asthma vs. vocal cord dysfunction. NEVATA annual meeting & clinical symposium, Reno and Las Vegas, NV.

Galek, K., Bice, E. (April, 2017). Houston, we have a problem. Nevada Speech and Hearing Association annual conference, Reno, NV.

Bice, E., Galek, K (July, 2017). Surface electromyography break out session. 2017 Florida Dysphagia Institute, Orlando, FL.

Evidence of Works in Progress

• *Evans, L. is a UNR medical student (MS4) in the MD/MPH program
• *Diaz, Y is a UNR pre-medical student.
• *Allen and Morrissey are speech pathology doctoral students.
• *Steelman, Marquez, Tudorache are undergraduate student researchers.
• *Murray is a Surgeon at Northern Nevada Hospital.
• *Yount, A. & Penrose, A are computer science undergraduate students.
• *Pollock, C., Lopez, L., Nambaugh, G., Almanzar, L are computer science undergraduate students.

Grants and Contract Awards