Troiani-Sweeney Endowed Fund Lecture Series

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Please join us for the Troiani-Sweeney Lecture Series
at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania.

Featuring Keynote Speaker

Guest Speaker

Nicole Rogus-Pulia, PhD, CCC-SLP

Thursday, October 26, 2023
6 p.m.
Niedbala Auditorium
Warren E. ’55 and Sandra Hoeffner Science and Technology Center

About Nicole Rogus-Pulia, PhD, CCC-SLP

Nicole Rogus-Pulia, PhD, CCC-SLP is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Additionally, she is the Director of the Swallowing and Salivary Bioscience Laboratory in the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital as well as Director of the multi-site Veteran Health Administration’s (VHA) Intensive Dysphagia Treatment (IDT) program. The goal of Dr. Rogus-Pulia’s research program is to systematically identify and characterize factors underlying dysphagia in older adults and patients with dementia with the goal of translating these findings into novel, evidence-based treatments for prevention of pneumonia onset. Dr. Rogus-Pulia has received grant funding from the Veterans Health Administration, the Wisconsin Head and Neck Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE), the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support this work.

About the Lecture Series

The Troiani-Sweeney Lecture Series honors Yvonne Troiani-Sweeney, a 1978 nursing graduate of ESU who was diagnosed with a form of early onset dementia called posterior cortical atrophy. Linda Troiani Niedbala ’82 and The Niedbala Family Foundation established this lecture series to be a lasting tribute to Yvonne and her devotion to others.

From 1978 to 2011, Yvonne’s career included positions such as director of nursing at Franklin Square Hospital Center in Baltimore, Md., the director of nursing at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pa., and head nurse at the Burn Center at what is now Lehigh Valley Health Network.