Hello IBIA attendees! My name is Brooke and I'm an OT by training. I manage the Brain Injury Program at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals in Lincoln and Omaha Nebraska. I've been treating pediatric and adult survivors of moderate and severe brain injury for 15 years. My passion area of practice is Disorders of Consciousness and participate in the IBIA DoC SIG and ACRM DoC Task Force. I also co-chair the Campaign to Cure Coma Care of the Coma Patient Work Group. Looking for anyone interested in participating in Campaign projects!! Reach out to me if you are interested.

Amy Shapiro-Rosenbaum, Ph.D., ABPP is a board certified clinical neuropsychologist with over 20 years of brain injury related experience. She is director of inpatient brain injury rehabilitation at Park Terrace Care Center, a research investigator for the New York Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Model System and adjunct faculty for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Recognizing a relative lack of specialized outpatient services, she co-founded BrainMatters Neuropsychological Services to improve access to high-quality community-based care for those affected by brain injury. Dr. Shapiro-Rosenbaum’s clinical and research interests include disorders of consciousness (DoC), confusional states, cognitive rehabilitation, evidence-based practice and psychotherapy after brain injury. She has published in textbooks and peer-reviewed journals. She helped develop evidence-based cognitive rehabilitation practice guidelines for TBI and stroke, and program recommendations to improve DoC standards of care. Her work has been presented at professional trainings and conferences nationally and internationally. Dr. Shapiro-Rosenbaum also holds leadership positions within the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), serving as Co-Chair of the Cognitive Rehabilitation Training Faculty and the Brain Injury Special Interest Group Cognitive Rehabilitation Task Force. Within the DoC Task Force, she is Chair of the Education and Knowledge Translation Committee. She has spearheaded cross-disciplinary consumer and professional focused education activities for both task forces, through collaborations with multiple organizations including the ACRM, TBI Model Systems, Brainline WETA Public Television, and the Neurocritical Care Society’s Curing Coma Campaign. She has received several awards and recognitions for her significant contributions to ACRM.

udy Gargaro is the Manager for the Neurotrauma Care Pathways Initiative and was previously the Program Director for the ABI programme at the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (ONF). Judy has been focusing on the creation of a Neurotrauma Care Pathway Strategy with a focus on how best to support persons with a neurotrauma with comorbidities and who have traditionally been under-served by the healthcare system. Other initiatives include developing a Neurotrauma data strategy to assess quality of care, the Provincial TBI Report Card and the implementation of the Standards and Clinical Practice Guidelines for Concussion/Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and for the Rehabilitation of Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. In all this work Judy collaborates with administrators, clinicians (brain injury, spinal cord injury and other sectors) and policy makers to improve the quality of care available to persons after all severities of neurotrauma.