Tiny Hearts, Big Impact: The super-niche of congenital heart disease in infants

We have SLPs who niche….and then we have SLPs who super-niche.

Meet this week’s guest on the podcast, Nashifa Hooda Momin, SLP.D, CCC-SLP .

Nashifa joins us this week to tell us all about the world of speech-language pathology in the care of infants with congenital heart disease (CHD)...like I said, super-niche!

This episode is packed with specialized information about this vulnerable yet resilient population.?

Nashifa tells us:

• what exactly CHD in infants looks like from a therapeutic lens
• how the unique anatomy of CHD impacts infant feeding/swallowing
• the benefit of pre-surgery early intervention to optimize post-op feeding outcomes
• about her work as an allied health research scientist & with infants with single ventricle physiology

Nashifa has been an incredible contributor to the Medical SLP Collective Facebook discussions and presented a webinar this year on this very topic. There is so much to learn from her about!? ?We know you will this episode.

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Nashifa Momin, SLP.D, CCC-SLP, earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University in 2009. She then pursued her Master of Science degree in Communication Science and Disorders at MGH Institute of Health Professions, graduating in 2013. She recently completed her doctorate in Speech-Language Pathology at MGH Institute of Health Professions in September 2024.

Nashifa works at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and specializes in pediatric feeding and swallowing, primarily in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) and Cardiac Acute Care Unit (CACU). Her expertise lies in caring for infants and children with congenital heart defects/disease. Nashifa is passionate about both clinical practice and research and has recently joined the Nursing and Allied Research Team at Children’s. Additionally, she is a member of the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Collaborative with a passion for enhancing the long-term developmental outcomes of pediatric cardiac patients.?