Andrew Palmer earned his Master's degree in Communicative Disorders at San Francisco State University. He interned at the Voice Center at the University of California San Francisco and completed his fellowship at OHSU. His clinical focus is in the area of head and neck cancer rehabilitation and dysphagia. He is a certified provider of VitalStim for dysphagia. He regularly teaches graduate classes in adult dysphagia, is an Adjunct Faculty at Portland State University, and has taught Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) courses nationally. He is also interested in alaryngeal speech rehabilitation and is part of the faculty of the International Association of Laryngectomees’ (IAL) Voice Institute each year. Research interests include swallowing, voice and quality of life outcomes after surgery.