**Meet the editors**

Dr Renée Speyer is currently employed as Associate Professor at James Cook University in Australia where she is the Head of Speech Pathology. After graduating as a speech pathologist in the Netherlands, she earned master degrees in Speech and Language Pathology, Epidemiology and Health Professions Education and completed a PhD in 2004. Dr Speyer's career included

working as a speech pathologist in different health care settings and in academia. Over the last two decades Dr Speyer has developed an international research track record in the field of oropharyngeal dysphagia. She is currently undertaking research projects both nationally and internationally involving clinimetrics, instrument development, and developing evidenced based interventions in allied health for different disability population groups. She published over 50 internationally peer-reviewed research articles, mainly in the field of oropharyngeal dysphagia.

Hans Bogaardt is a Speech Pathologist and Clinical Epidemiologist, who is specialized in assessment and treatment of dysphagia. Currently Hans works as Lecturer in Speech Pathology at The University of Sydney, Australia. Hans completed his undergraduate degree in Speech Pathology at the Leidse Hogeschool in Leiden, the Netherlands and worked for several years in Germa-

ny and the Netherlands in different hospitals and rehabilitation centers. In 2004 he obtained his master's degree in Evidence Based Practise / Clinicial Epidemiology at the University of Amsterdam. In the following years Hans worked as a clinician and researcher at the Department of Otolaryngology of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam. In 2009 he finished his PhD with a thesis titled 'Current Aspects of Assessment and Treatment of Dysphagia'. Next to his teaching, Hans is involved in several research projects looking into assessment and treatment of swallowing disorders in a range of different patient populations.
