Jennifer Hanners Gutierrez

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, United States

Title: The relationship of feeding route oral versus tube to patient outcomes amid dysphagia and critical illness

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Biography

Jennifer Hanners Gutierrez completed her Ph.D. at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) in 2019. Gutierrez is currently a medical speech-language pathologist at University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas and serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor for the TTUHSC School of Medicine. In 2016, Gutierrez was the keynote speaker for the Nutrition in Palliative Care Symposium (China, Hong Kong). Gutierrez taught on oral feeding amid critical illness and dysphagia in Lucknow, India (2018-2020). Gutierrez led international training on least risk oral feeding amid life-limiting illness (2019) and conducts associated research, publishing seminal work in 2024.

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