
Mary Hagg
Associate Professor, Uppsala University, SwedenBiography
Mary Hägg is
Associate Professor at Uppsala University and has been head of department of
the Speech and Swallowing Centre at Hudiksvall Hospital ENT faculty, providing
specialist treatment for the Swedish country Gästrikland. She has held this
position for 31 years. She is a registered dentist as well as holding a PhD and
associate professorship in ENT experimental disease treatments.
She has led or participated in 17
scientific studies and has published six book chapters related to swallowing
dysfunctions and their treatments and is an internationally sought-after speaker,
lecturer on this subject. She is the
inventor of the IQoro neuromuscular training device which is now used by tens
of thousands of people in Europe to treat swallowing difficulties, the legacy
problems of stroke, reflux-based diseases, and snoring and sleep apnoea.
Mary is
co-author of the book chapter referenced above, along with Associate Professor
Thomas Franzén of the Dept. of Surgery and Dept. of Clinical and Experimental
Medicine at Linköping University in Sweden.