Kristen (krisi) A. Brackett MS, SLP-CCC

Krisi Brackett is a Pediatric Feeding and Dysphagia Specialist with over 27 years of experience. She is currently co-director of the UNC Pediatric Feeding Team at the NC Children's Hospital, UNC Healthcare, Chapel Hill, NC. The team consists of pediatric GI, speech, and nutrition and provides multidisciplinary feeding intervention to children using a combined medical, nutritional, and therapeutic approach which serves as the inspiration and basis for the CAN-EAT Approach. She performs MBSS and FEES in the pediatric population.

Krisi is adjunct faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill and at Yeshiva University and is currently a doctoral student in Communication Science Disorders at UNC-Greensboro. She is certified in pediatric Neuro-Developmental Training and is a member of ASHA. She is a clinical consultant to the Feeding Flock (http://feedingflock.web.unc.edu/), a UNC-based feeding research group. Krisi is a contributing author in Pediatric Feeding Disorders Evaluation and Treatment. Krisi lectures nationally, sharing information on intervention strategies for handling this special population. Krisi blogs on current feeding issues at pediatricfeedingnews.com.