Presenters for the ASHA Health Care Summit 2025: Grand Rounds in the ICU

Integrating SLPs in Critical Care

May 2–3, 2025 | In collaboration with Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic Administrative Campus, Beachwood, Ohio

ASHA Health Care Summit 2025 features critical care professionals from across Cleveland Clinic. You’ll learn about their priorities, how their work interacts with yours, and takeaways to add to your tool kit.

Martin B. Brodsky, PhD, ScM, CCC-SLP, is Section Head, Speech-Language Pathology in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Integrated Surgical Institute at Cleveland Clinic and Adjunct Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. His publications focus on swallowing and swallowing disorders and laryngeal injury after endotracheal intubation. Dr. Brodsky’s NIH-funded research studies the effects of critical illness and critical care medicine on swallowing. He is an ASHA Fellow, an Associate Editor for Dysphagia, and a Section Editor for Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

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Lauren Bruwer, APRN, AGCNS-BC, is an Advanced Practice Clinical Nurse Specialist at the Cleveland Clinic. Lauren manages adult patients with enteral nutrition access devices. She brings safe enteral access for patients in the hospital from the emergency room to the critical care units. Additionally, she sees patients in the outpatient Enteral Nutrition Clinic, where she provides clinical expertise, complication managment, and enteral device exchange and removal. Priorities include ensuring enteral nutrition success and promoting a healthy relationship between the patient and their feeding tube as well as the dissemination of best practices related to enteral access devices and enteral nutrition.

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Patrick Byrne, MD, MBA, is the Enterprise Chief of Surgical Specialties at Cleveland Clinic and Chair of Head and Neck Surgery. A renowned facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon, he specializes in microsurgical facial reconstruction, skin cancer management, and facial aesthetic surgery. He has over 130 peer-reviewed publications and has pioneered innovations in facial paralysis treatment. Dr. Byrne trained at UC San Diego, UCSF, and the University of Minnesota. He earned his MBA from Wharton. Committed to global service, he leads surgical teams providing care to children with facial deformities in developing countries and has founded several medical startups.

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Krista Dobbie, MD, is in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Cleveland Clinic.

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Steven Insler, DO, has been a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist and critical care physician at the heart, vascular, and thoracic Institute of the Cleveland Clinic foundation for over 25 years. His areas of interest and expertise lie in cardiothoracic physiology, pharmacology, and clinical research (investigating critical care physiology and pain management advances). He is on faculty of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of medicine as a professor in clinical anesthesia and critical care medicine. He is fortunate to help lead and manage the largest ICU in the western hemisphere at the Cleveland Clinic, with an amazing staff of professonals.

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Mary Katzenstein, MOT, OTR/L, is a Senior Occupational Therapist at the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus, working in the SICU and MICU. Of her seven years as an OT, six have been in acute care and four in critical care. Her clinical interests include ICU delirium, transplant, and gerontology.

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Lynne Kokoczka, MSN, APRN-CNS, ACCNS-AG, CCRN, is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Cleveland Clinic. She earned both her BSN (2007) and MSN (2015) from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Kokoczka holds certifications as an Acute Care Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult-Gerontology (ACCNS-AG) and Critical Care Certified Nurse (CCRN) from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Kokoczka is an active member of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists and the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.

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Lindsey Kreisher, MHA, RRT-ACCS, is an accomplished health care leader with over 15 years of experience in respiratory care, clinical leadership, and health care administration. Currently, she serves as the Manager of the Department of Intensive Care and Resuscitation Respiratory Care at Cleveland Clinic’s Sydell and Arnold Miller Heart Center. In this role, Lindsey manages the operational aspects of a department of over 80 full-time employees, overseeing supervisor and educational personnel, and ensuring the efficient delivery of services. She also leads budget development, performance evaluations, and various quality improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing patient, physician, and customer satisfaction metrics.

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Kelly Ritchey, RD, LD, CNSC, is an ICU Dietitian at the Cleveland Clinic. Kelly brings seven years of experience, finding her passion in the critical care setting. She is a member of national organizations such as the AND and ASPEN and is involved at her instiution. Kelly's focus on nutrition support is apparent. She currently leads an initiative focused on creating a MyLearning Module series titled Enteral Nutrition Primer and is participant on the Enteral Nutrition Committee. Kelly received her Bachelor of Science from The Ohio State University Medical Dietetics Coordinated Undergraduate Program (Research Distinction) (Summa Cum Laude).

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