Concussion-mTBI/NABIS Keynote Lecture: What Does the Future Hold for Persons with Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury?, Jennie Ponsford
| Friday, March 21, 2025 |
| 5:45 PM - 6:30 PM |
| Room: 517A |
Details
CME; Wordly translation services available.
Speaker
Prof. Jennie Ponsford
Monash University
What Does the Future Hold for Persons with Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury?
Abstract(s)
This lecture will address what we know about long-term outcomes following moderate-severe traumatic brain injury. Longitudinal data will be presented describing the trajectory of physical, cognitive, behavioural, psychiatric and functional outcomes over ten years post-injury, highlighting the significance of cognitive, behavioural, psychological and social consequences that impact work, study and relationships and identifying predictors of outcome that relate to the person who sustained the injury, as well as the injury itself. The nature and trajectories of comorbidities occurring over the years after injury will be examined. The question of whether traumatic brain injury causes dementia will be addressed with findings from some recent studies. Finally, the perspectives on the long term recovery journey will be examined through qualitative interviews conducted 10-30 years post-injury.
Biography
Jennie Ponsford, AO, BA(Hons), MA(Clin Neuropsych), PhD, MAPsS, FCCN is Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor of Neuropsychology in the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University. She is Director of the Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre at Epworth Healthcare. Over 44 years she has conducted clinical work and research with individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), investigating outcomes and the efficacy of rehabilitative interventions, with over 500 publications, including two books. She is Past-President of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), International Association for Study of TBI and Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment. She has received the Robert Moody prize for Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury and Rehabilitation (2013), INS Paul Satz Career Mentoring Award (2015), IBIA Jennett Plum Award for Outstanding Clinical Achievement in Brain Injury Medicine (2023) Australian Psychological Society Award of Distinction in Psychological Science. and in 2017 was made Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished contributions to neuropsychology and diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of TBI. In 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 she was named as Australia’s leading researcher in Rehabilitation Therapy. She serves on editorial boards of seven journals and is an Associate Editor of Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
