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Lisa Milliken, MA, CCC-SLP graduated with her BA from Louisiana Tech University in 1985 and she received her MA in Speech Pathology from The University of Memphis in 1987. Lisa has worked primarily with the adult and geriatric rehabilitation, with a clinical focus on patients with dysphagia, dementia and complex medical conditions with multiple co-morbidities and polypharmacy. She has served as a clinician, manager, vice president, consultant, compliance/education director and researcher and is most passionate about mentoring healthcare professionals in the post-acute facilities in multiple states across the country throughout her 30 years in healthcare. She currently provides continuing education support to over 900 sites nationwide as Education Specialist for Select Rehabilitation.

She has authored and lectured at the state regional and national level with over 100 professional continuing education courses as well as multiple publications, on topics such as those focusing on disease processes affecting the elderly population, reducing hospital re-admissions, interventions for the heart failure resident, ethics and documentation in healthcare, Medicare regulatory and legislative news, dementia research and management, complex dysphagia disorders, skilled nursing protocols and documentation, ADL accuracy and healthcare leadership.

Lisa is a member of the American Speech Hearing and Language Association, where she currently serves as the ASHA State Advocate for Medicare Policy (StAMP) Representative to Texas and also serves on the TSHA Executive Council as chair of the Business Management Committee and is also a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice. She has presented at the national ASHA convention for 12+ years and has served as an author and reviewer of ASHA committees to develop a healthcare documentation module. She has also served as the Louisiana Speech and Hearing Association Board President and was a member of the national Council of State Association Presidents (CSAP).