Luis F. Riquelme
Email: luis.riquelme@liu.edu

Luis F. Riquelme's clinical experience focuses on adult neurogenics, swallowing disorders and bilingual adult, adolescent and school-age populations. He also has extensive experience in program development and quality improvement. Prof. Riquelme has developed Dysphagia Programs at acute care and long-term care facilities in New York City and is a co-owner of Riquelme & Santo, PC, a private practice in Brooklyn. He was 1999 President of the New York State Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NYSSLHA) and has served on many local, state and national level committees. At the national level, he is a member of the Multicultural Issues Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and Co-Chair of the Hispanic Caucus for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, a related professional organization of ASHA. Most recently, he has been asked to repreent ASHA in the media on issues related to bilingualism. He also serves on the Bias Review Team of The Psychological Corporation; is a consultant to the NYS Education Department-funded Bilingual Personnel Preparation Center; and represent ASHA on a special Federal panel on research needs for the HIV/AIDS community. At present he is a regional investigator for an NIH-funded national grant project looking at liquid aspiration in persons with dementia and/or Parkinson's Disease. He has local and national publications and presentations on topics of multiculturalism/bilingualism, dysphagia, report writing, and quality improvement for service delivery.