Anna-Liisa Sutt is a Speech and Language Therapist whose work involves communication and dysphagia management of adult intensive care patients. Most of Anna-Liisa’s career to date has been in Brisbane, Australia. She has recently moved back to the UK to continue in a clinical post at The Royal London Hospital, alongside continued teaching commitments and research nationally and internationally. Her passion is improving the management of patients with tracheostomies, from insertion to decannulation and longer-term outcomes. She is devoted to advancing speech pathology input and its evidence base in the critical care environment. In her PhD Anna-Liisa assessed the effect of one-way valves on regional ventilation and communication success of ventilated ICU patients with a tracheostomy.