Nancy Swigert, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, is the director of speech-language pathology and respiratory care at Baptist Health Lexington, an acute care facility in Lexington, Kentucky. She serves on the Neuroscience Board and the Home Health Advisory Board. She maintains her involvement in the provision of clinical services through supervision of new staff, provision of diagnostic services to in-patients and out-patients and as principal investigator on dysphagia research. She is an adjunct faculty at the University of Kentucky and a board-certified specialist in swallowing and swallowing disorders. Her main interests are in the area of pediatric and adult dysphagia. She has authored seven publications with Linguisystems. She received her master's degree from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She is a former president of the Kentucky Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Council of State Speech-Language-Hearing Association Presidents and was president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 1998. She chaired the American Board of Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders from 2012-2014.