Sarah Wallace OBE MSc h.c. FRCSLT is a Consultant Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) and Honorary Senior Lecturer at The University of Manchester Department of infection, immunity and Respiratory Medecine. Sarah has 30 years of clinical and research eperience as an SLP having trained in Manchester and worked in Singapore, the West Indies, Australia and Cambodia as well in as the UK. She has specialised in critical care and trachesotomy for over 20 years and and is the SLP lead for the National Tracheostomy Safety Project and national SLP advisor for the Intensive Care Society(ICS) and Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT). Sarahs teaching and research into laryngeal complications affecting communication and swallowing and their rehabilitation in ICU has been at the forefront internationally, driving service developments and she has contributed to many national and international critical care, tracheostomy and dysphagia policies and guidelines. Her collaborative research has won awards from American Speech Hearing Association, the ICS and the British Medical Journal (2020/21). Sarah was recently honoured by the Queen becoming an Order of the British Empire (OBE) and by the RCSLT with a Fellowship, for her work as an internationally recognised leader and senior clinician within her field and for her vital role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. During her career she has pioneered clinical innovations that have positively improved patients’ lives helping them to speak, eat and drink earlier and supported many other teams to implement positive change. Her work has been disseminated nationally and internationally.