AHP rep

Roganie Govender MBE PhD FRCSLT

Roganie is a consultant clinical-academic SLT at University College London Hospital and an Associate Professor at UCL, Division of Surgery & Interventional Science. She is currently AHP representative on the British Association of Head and Neck Oncology Council, serves on the European Society of Swallowing Disorders (ESSD) research group and an active member of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists contributing to national guidelines and policies for the profession.

Roganie’s research interest centres around swallowing, cancer prehabilitation and health behaviour change within pre/rehabilitation interventions. Having completed a PhD in Behavioural Science and Health, Roganie is keen to bring this knowledge into the mainstream of rehabilitation practice to ensure greater support and better outcomes for our patients with head and neck cancer. She has won multiple fellowships from the NIHR over the last 12 years enabling her training in mixed methods research and clinical trials. She recently led on a pilot cluster-randomised multicentre trial of swallowing prehabilitation in people with head and neck cancer. This was one of the first AHP-Led clinical trials in England to support the NIHR Associate Principal Investigator Scheme helping to build capacity for AHP leadership and engagement with clinical trials.