Mission Statement of the Dysphagia Research Society

The Dysphagia Research Society is organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes.

In particular, the purposes of the Society are:

• to enhance and encourage research pertinent to normal and disordered swallowing and related functions
• to attract new investigators to the field and to encourage interdisciplinary research
• to promote the dissemination of knowledge related to normal and disordered swallowing
• to provide a multidisciplinary forum for presentation of research into normal and disordered swallowing
• to foster new methodologies and instrumentation in dysphagia research and its clinical applications