Julie Cichero PhD, BA

Dr Julie Cichero is internationally recognised for expertise in the field of feeding and swallowing disorders. She has worked clinically and conducted research into swallowing difficulties (dysphagia) from infancy to old age. She has worked in a range of public and private health care settings. Julie has been a lecturer and researcher affiliated with The University of Queensland since 1996 with and is currently an Honorary Senior Fellow with the School of Pharmacy.

She is also an affiliate with the Schools of Chemical Engineering and Food Technology (UQ) and Speech Pathology (Griffith University). Julie is an invited national and international speaker in the area of dysphagia, and reviewer for 19 international journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, speech pathology, allied health, chemical engineering, nutrition and food technology. She has published more than 30 journal articles and co-authored four books.