Will Farnham, MS, SLP has been practicing as a speech-language pathologist in medical settings across the continuum of care—including acute care, inpatient rehab, skilled nursing, mobile endoscopy, and outpatient venues—since 2012 for the entirety of his career to date since completing his M.S. at Western Kentucky University. He has served as the principal acute care SLP at Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital since 2022, and has had the opportunity to serve as an internal subject matter expert for multiple local and national interdisciplinary mission-wide initiatives. Will holds multiple certifications both generally as well as in diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, but believes weaning ourselves from a certification-focused mindset in favor of fostering targeted clinical and critical reasoning is the best path forward for the field. He routinely mentors SLP students, new graduates/clinical fellows, and colleagues. He has appeared as a guest on multiple med SLP-focused podcasts, and occasional dabbles in providing more formal continuing education ventures such as this one. Will is inauspiciously most widely-known as the sole proprietor of the meme page Hard to Swallow across multiple social platforms, where he shares clinically-focused original jokes. When not at work or chronically online, Will enjoys a variety of podcasts, middle-distance running (and staring!), serving as the A/V and streaming producer at his church, and going to weekly pub trivia with his wife and daughter as team Sigma Quizzlers.

Disclosures:  
Financial:
- Will receives an honorarium for this course.
- Will is employed full time at Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast hospital, and he receives a salary. All opinions expressed herein are his own and not those of Ascension and/or Sacred Heart.
- Will is the sole proprietor of Hard to Swallow AKA @hardtoswallowslp, and he receives some minimal income through subscriptions and platform bonuses from Meta via Facebook and Instagram, as well as occasionally from merchandise sales.  

Nonfinancial:
- Will and Brooke are internet friends.  

Generative AI:
- Multiple transformer and diffusion models were used as one component in design process of some custom graphics (OpenAI/ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Nano Banana, Apple Intelligence, Stable Diffusion).  If functionally equivalent acceptable stock media alternatives were readily available from targeted source searches, they were used instead. Not used for research, production of substantive content, or editing.