Physiatrist
Area of ​​interest rehabilitation of severe acquired brain injury, in particular in the diagnostic, prognosis and rehabilitation treatment of patients with disorders of consciousness.
Neuromodulation techniques in severe acquired brain injury
Clinical and instrumental evaluation of dysphagia.

Physiatrist
Area of interest:
Rehabilitation of severe acquired brain injury in particular diagnosis prognosis and rehabilitation treatment of patients with disorder of consciousness.
Evaluation end treatment of spasticity.

Dr. Borrelli graduated from Medaille University in 2023 with her PsyD in Clinical Psychology and is in supervised practice at West Niagara Psychology Centre. Dr. Borrelli's primary areas of work include both comprehensive assessment and treatment of adolescents and adults. Dr. Borrelli provides psychological assessments for adolescents and adults to assess for learning disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD and behavioral challenges, anxiety disorders, depression, trauma, and personality disorders. Dr. Borrelli provides interventions (i.e., Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) to individuals with trauma, neurodevelopmental disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders.

In addition to clinical work, Dr. Borrelli has contributed to efficacy research for psychological interventions and animal models of central nervous system structure and function.

Professor Carolina Bottari is an occupational therapist who specializes in cognitive disorders following a traumatic brain injury. She is a full professor in the School of Rehabilitation of the Faculty of Medicine at Université de Montréal and scientist at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal.

Professor Bottari holds a PhD in rehabilitation sciences from Université de Montréal and a CIHR-funded postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at McGill University. She started her academic career after over 10 years as a clinician working with people with brain injury. She is an internationally recognized and widely published researcher, with 90 published articles and 300 abstracts. She has attracted a total of more than $11 million in external grant funding and recently received the award of excellence for her outstanding career from the Ordre des ergothérapeutes du Québec. In recognition of her work with vulnerable populations, in 2014 Professor Bottari was awarded the prize for social responsibility from the Faculty of Medicine at Université de Montréal.

Professor Bottari is currently leading several largely funded intersectoral grants seeking to put into place an ecosystem of care around women victims of intimate partner violence at risk of having sustained a traumatic brain injury.

Dr. Carolina Bottari, OT, Ph.D., is a full professor in the occupational therapy program at Université de Montréal, Canada. She is also a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal. Her research studies have largely focused on individuals having sustained a traumatic brain injury. Dr. Bottari is currently leading an international project working to develop and test smart home technologies designed to offer graded cognitive assistance during meal preparation to individuals with severe traumatic brain injury living within the community. She has vast expertise in co-design studies with community partners, particularly for projects funded by CIHR, MEDTECH, AGE WELL and FRQ, targeting the development of smart home technologies to meet the needs of an aging population with cognitive deficits and a TBI population. She has published 90 peer-reviewed articles and supervised over 100 graduate students

Sophie Lecours holds a PhD in neuropsychology from the Université the Montreal and has significant clinical experience, particularly in the rehabilitation of individuals with traumatic brain injuries (TBI). She has also worked in the community sector, where she developed support and training services for caregivers. Her deep interest in physical, cognitive, and mental health has also driven her to contribute in parallel to various clinically oriented research projects. In recent years, she has focused on participatory research, joining a pan-Canadian team aimed at optimizing strategies to support individuals with TBIs during the pandemic and beyond. She is currently a professional researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal (CRIR) – Institut universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal, where she collaborates with a multidisciplinary team consisting of occupational therapists, legal and criminology experts, and key representatives from a provincial organization for women's shelters. Together, they have initiated a three-year multi-phase, community-based research project aimed at addressing traumatic brain injuries among women survivors of domestic violence. The primary goal is to collaboratively develop a sustainable ecosystem of care with all key stakeholders involved in supporting this population.

Maxime Boutet is a research associate with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Université Laval. His main research interest is clinical neuropsychology, he currently works in the Neuradap research laboratory. He works as a research associate at Université Laval and the Cirris research center in Québec, QC, Canada, mainly on projects exploring the cognitive and psychological symptoms of traumatic brain injury and long COVID.

Alyssa P Herzog PT, DPT received her BS from SUNY Oneonta in Biology in 2010, and DPT from Russell Sage University in 2014. Dr. Herzog is a Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Pediatric Physical Therapy from the APTA. Dr. Herzog has treated patients in both adult and pediatric populations in the acute rehabilitation environment since 2014. She has played an integral role in the implementation of High Intensity Gait Training and creation of an outsourced pediatric unit at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington DC where she is currently a Senior Physical Therapist. Dr. Herzog has previous speaking experience locally and nationally including American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, Academy of Neurological Physical Therapy, Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy conferences on neurological rehabilitation, pediatric rehabilitation, knowledge translation and implementation.

Jane Bradshaw is a titled pain physiotherapist with 35 years of experience in working in gerontology, chronic pain and rehabilitation. She works at the Be Pain Smart Clinic at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. Jane completed a Masters in Health Care Service Management at the University of Tasmania in 2021 and has researched the importance of kindness, listening, and connection in Chronic and Complex Care. She is now a PhD student at Notre Dame University researching human flourishing in the traumatic brain injury population in the first two years after injury. The aim of the research is to codesign an intervention using the expertise of those with lived experience of TBI to improve the outcomes for patients with TBI in an patient brain injury unit in Sydney.

Ms Anne Brannagan OBE, DIPCOT, MSc, qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 1988 from the London school. She did a two year orthopaedic rotation before specialising in Neurorehabilitation at the Defence Services Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court. She gained a research master's degree with distinction from Kings College in 1993. Ms Brannagan is particularly interested in the cognitive and executive sequelae of acquired brain injury. She runs workshops with Kit Malia, training both professionals working in the field and carers of brain injured individuals around the country. In addition, she has lectured on cognition at conferences in the UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Spain, The Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Slovenia, Belgium, Australia and the USA. She held the position of Chair for the College of Occupational Therapy Specialist Section Neurological Practice from September 2003-2006. She has been active in writing clinical guidelines for patients with ABI. Ms Brannagan has developed a number of rehabilitation activities, including a practical approach to the assessment of executive problems (The Brannagan Executive Functions Assessment) following brain injury and cognitive/psychosocial groups. Her most recent roles were Neurological Team Manager & Complex Trauma Manager at Headley Court where she was responsible for managing the two multi-disciplinary teams. She was awarded the OBE in January 2010 for services provided to rehabilitation.

Lisa A. Brenner, Ph.D., is a Board-Certified Rehabilitation Psychologist, and a Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), Psychiatry, and Neurology at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. She is the current Chair of the International Brain Injury Association and a Past President of Division 22 (Rehabilitation Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA), as well as an APA Fellow. She serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. Her primary area of research interest is traumatic brain injury, co-morbid psychiatric disorders, and negative psychiatric outcomes, including suicide. Dr. Brenner has numerous peer-reviewed publications, participates on national advisory boards, and has co-authored a book titled: Suicide Prevention After Neurodisability: An Evidence-Informed Approach. She is also a co-editor of APA Handbook of Rehabilitation Psychology (3rd Edition) and is the current editor of the Oxford University Press Academy of Rehabilitation Psychology Series.

Lisa A. Brenner, Ph.D., is a Board-Certified Rehabilitation Psychologist, and a Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Psychiatry, and Neurology at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. Dr. Brenner is a Senior Clinical Investigator at the Department of Veterans Affairs Rocky Mountain Regional Medical Center. She also co-leads the VA Brain Health Coordinating Center. Dr. Brenner is the current Chair of the International Brain Injury Association and a Past President of Division 22 (Rehabilitation Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA), as well as an APA Fellow. She serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation.

Dr. Abigail Bretzin is a Research Investigator and member in the Department of Emergency Medicine and member of the Michigan Injury Prevention Center. Before joining the Michigan Injury Prevention Center, Dr. Bretzin completed her postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, gaining advanced training in epidemiology. During her postdoctoral studies, she also completed NIH funded training programs in sleep and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Bretzin earned her PhD in Kinesiology at Michigan State University. Dr. Bretzin’s research includes primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of traumatic brain injury (TBI), specifically sport-related concussion. Her research examines the epidemiology of concussion and TBI, related health disparities, and long-term outcomes of the injury and repetitive head impact exposure. Dr. Bretzin is also a member of the Data Coordinating Core of the Ivy League – Big Ten Epidemiology of Concussion Study, leading analyses and study dissemination activities. Her research also engages under-represented communities, with attention to male and female differences in sport-related concussion incidence and outcomes.

Dr. Briand holds degrees in kinesiology from Université de Montréal and medicine from Université de Sherbrooke. Specializing in physiatry at Université Laval, she honed her expertise in consciousness disorders with the Coma Science Group in Belgium. Now at Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, she manages TBI and consciousness disorders while pursuing a doctorate at Université de Montréal to become a clinician-scientist.

Dr. Jeff Brooks (PhD) is a postdoctoral fellow in the Injury Prevention, Clinical Intervention & Implementation Science Research Group at Brock University, Ontario, Canada, within the Department of Kinesiology. With a focus on head impact research, Dr. Brooks leverages his expertise in biomechanics and his experience as a former varsity football player to study the effects of repetitive head impacts, particularly in youth and female sports. His work uses advanced technologies such as instrumented mouthguards and cognitive motor integration tasks to monitor head impact exposure and assess brain function.

Dr. Jeff Brooks (PhD) is a postdoctoral fellow in the Injury Prevention, Clinical Intervention & Implementation Science Research Group at Brock University, Ontario, Canada, within the Department of Kinesiology. With a focus on head impact research, Dr. Brooks leverages his expertise in biomechanics and his experience as a former varsity football player to study the effects of repetitive head impacts, particularly in youth and female sports. His work uses advanced technologies such as instrumented mouthguards and cognitive motor integration tasks to monitor head impact exposure and assess brain function.

Dr Melissa ‘Liss’ Brunner
Liss is a lecturer in the Acquired Brain Injury Communication Lab at the University of Sydney. She is an early career researcher and certified practicing speech pathologist with over twenty years of experience in the assessment and management of adults with swallowing and communication difficulties. Liss has clinical and research expertise in acquired neurologic disorders, and her research experience and collaborations extend across interdisciplinary health care contexts, with specialist skills in qualitatively driven social media and digital health mixed methods research. Her doctoral research laid the necessary groundwork in understanding the complexity of the issues surrounding people with TBI using social media and how it may (or may not) be addressed during their rehabilitation. Through using social media for research translation (in particular on Twitter/X as @LissBEE_CPSP), her research has gained exposure globally, generating conversations and driving change to create better opportunities for participation and inclusion of people living with an acquired brain injury.

The presenting author is a psychiatrist working in Huize Padua Multidisciplinary Centre for Neuropsychiatry and Brain Injury, which is a tertially referral hospital and part of the mental health institute “GGZ Oost-Brabant”, located in the south of the Netherlands. He is also appointed as a liaison psychiatrist in multiple rehabilitation centres. He holds a PhD in psychiatry from Radboud University Nijmegen. His current scientific research focuses on social cognition disorders after brain injury for which he is affiliated with the Limburg Brain Injury Centre at Maastricht University.
He is a registered epidemiologist and head of the residency training program at GGZ Oost-Brabant.

Dr. Buunk is clinical neuropsychologist and post-doctoral researcher in the University Medcial Center in Groningen. Her main research focus is neuropsychological consequences of brain injuries for which neurosurgery is needed (vascular, neuro-oncological), with a special interest in social cognition.

Kathleen Cairns is a Ph.D. candidate in the clinical psychology program at Université Laval. Her research focuses on long-term outcomes after mild traumatic brain injury.

Librada Callender is a clinical epidemiologist and research investigator at Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation in Dallas, TX with >15 years of research experience. She is a Co-Investigator for the National Institute of Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)-funded North Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Model System and Baylor Scott & White Spinal Cord Injury Model System. She is the principal investigator for a NIDILRR-funded Field Initiated Project adapting a healthy lifestyle intervention to be culturally relevant for Latino persons post stroke and available in Spanish. Her research has focused on neuro-rehabilitative populations (e.g., traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and stroke) across the continuum of care and health disparities, healthcare utilization, and health promotion. Her research passion is to remove obstacles for people with disabilities, especially among those with intersectional disparities.

Maée Camara is a master's student in athletic therapy at the Université de Quebec à Trois-Rivières. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology last June from the same university. She has been a sports first responder for football teams at various levels for the past three years. She has also been a research assistant since May 2023 for various projects related to concussions, repeated head impacts, and cervical pain. She wishes to deepen her knowledge regarding concussions and cervical pain.

Christina Campbell is a research coordinator in Dr. Debert's Brain NeuroRehabilitation Lab at the University of Calgary. Christina's research interests include novel treatments for acquired brain injury such as neuromodulation, platelet rich plasma, growth hormone replacement therapy, and psilocybin-assisted therapy.

Dr Allison Capizzi is a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician. She is fellowship trained in Brain Injury Medicine and specializes in the care for people with acquired brain injuries. She has published in the areas of spasticity management, aphasia treatment, traumatic brain injury recovery, endocrine abnormalities after brain injury, and headache management. She has special interests in spasticity management and education. She serves as Co-Medical Director of the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit in Oakland, California.

Ella Carlsson is a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, working with Dr. Carrie Esopenko. She earned her BS in Biopsychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2023, where she investigated the relationship between the endocrine and nervous systems. Her current research interests center on IPV-related head trauma and understanding the associated cognitive, psychological, and neural outcomes. Ella is passionate about advancing women’s health research and plans to pursue a PhD to further her research interests.

Monserrat is a PhD candidate in the Integrated Program in Neuroscience at McGill University. Her research focuses on identifying EEG biomarkers of post-COVID-19 condition symptoms to improve understanding and treatment of long COVID. Monserrat holds a Master’s in Cognitive Science and a Bachelor’s in Psychology. Her work is driven by a passion for enhancing patient outcomes through innovative research on neurological conditions.

Elizabeth Castro is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Program at the University at Buffalo, where she is co-advised by Dr. John Leddy (Orthopedics) and Dr. Sarah Muldoon (Mathematics). Her research focuses on investigating brain structural changes in adolescent athletes following sport-related concussions, using advanced neuroimaging techniques, particularly diffusion MRI. Elizabeth aims to relate these brain changes to clinical outcomes, with the goal of improving concussion management and developing targeted treatment approaches for affected athletes.

Alvin Chang, MD, is a dedicated physiatrist with a strong focus on brain injury medicine, cultivated during his PM&R residency at Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare. Dr. Chang’s clinical interests include the management of concussions, spasticity, and moderate/severe traumatic brain injuries, where he combines evidence-based rehabilitative techniques with patient-centered care. His passion for research lies in exploring the role of biomarkers to better predict recovery outcomes in brain injury patients, and explore treatment options for concussion management.

Dr. Chang believes that teamwork is critical to success in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) and other medical specialties. His experience as a collegiate track and field athlete taught him the value of resilience, collaboration, and leadership—qualities he applies to his medical practice as he works alongside interdisciplinary teams to optimize patient care.

With a goal of pursuing a brain injury fellowship, Dr. Chang remains committed to advancing the field through both clinical practice and research, aiming to enhance outcomes for brain injury patients and improve prognostic tools for recovery.

Meghan Chemidlin is an occupational therapist at A Rise Above Occupational Therapy Services, a private practice in the USA, where she primarily treats individuals with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). She holds a Postprofessional Doctorate in Occupational Therapy from Elizabethtown College. As co-owner of NeurOT, a consulting and continuing education company, Meghan supports professionals looking to start or enhance their concussion programs. She also serves as an adjunct professor at Elizabethtown College. Meghan is a Certified Brain Injury Specialist and a Certified Functional Vision Rehabilitation Specialist. She integrates her passion for interoception interventions across all populations and diagnoses, but is particularly passionate about its impact on the brain injury population.

Dr.Wan Lin Chen was born and raised in Taiwan. She completed her M.D. degree in 2000 and completed neurosurgical residency in 2006, when she was also board certified.
While at first few years of attending physician, she was board certified as Aviation Medicine Doctor due to an immense interest in aviation. She made a drastic turn in career path and worked for International SOS, a multinational corporation specialized in medical and security risk management. The reason was to maximize options by learning in a complex business arena. Taipei Office has won the best center of medical transport in 2009 under her leadership. During the years, she had worked her way up and was appointed Medical Director of Great China region in 2017. During her years in International SOS, she completed her PhD study in the School of Public Health of Taipei Medical University in 2018.
In 2019 she made a change again to be back to clinical and academia setting while continued work at International SOS as Medical Advisor in Asia Region. Currently, she is the Intensivist and Director of Neurotrauma and Critical Care in Taipei Neuroscience Institute(TNI). Dr. Chen’s research focus has been public health, critical care and medical resources allocation, particularly emergency air medical services.

Since beginning his career as a physical therapist in 1995, Dr. Chiacchiero has treated patients throughout the health care continuum beginning in the Acute Care Hospital through Inpatient Rehabilitation, Outpatient Therapy, Home Care, and Skilled Nursing Facilities. He has also worked in a Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, Prosthetics and Orthotics Clinic, Vestibular Clinic, and was Director of the Day Rehabilitation and Chronic Pain Management Clinics. After beginning his teaching career as an adjunct professor in 2000, Dr. Chiacchiero became full-time faculty in 2008. His teaching expertise includes Prosthetics and Orthotics, Neurological Rehabilitation and Vestibular Rehabilitation. His clinical hours are dedicated to treatment of clients with concussion.

Dr. Haley Chizuk is a researcher in the Concussion Management Lab at the University at Buffalo. Her research interests include fluid biomarkers, concussion, and aerobic exercise treatment. In addition to her research, she is an active athletic trainer in the greater Buffalo community, providing direct care to local athletes.

Dr. Haley Chizuk is a researcher in the Concussion Management Lab at the University at Buffalo. Her research interests include fluid biomarkers, concussion, and aerobic exercise treatment. In addition to her research, she is an active athletic trainer in the greater Buffalo community, providing direct care to local athletes.

Meeryo Choe, MD grew up in the Los Angeles area, traveled east to attend Amherst College, where she majored in Fine Arts completing a senior thesis in Printmaking. She is currently an Associate Professor in Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Neurology, at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and the Program Director for the Child Neurology Residency Program. She is also the Associate Director of the UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT Program, and helps oversee its mission, providing clinical care for injured student athletes, performing clinical research in pediatric traumatic brain injury TBI, and educating the community about sports-related concussion. Her research focuses on clinical outcome after pediatric TBI, with interests in post-concussive autonomic dysfunction and gender disparities in concussion incidence and recovery. She was a co-author on the CDC’s pediatric mTBI review and guidelines published in JAMA Pediatrics, and is a site-PI for the CARE4Kids U54, a multi-institutional longitudinal pediatric concussion study. An avid equestrian and former swimmer, Dr. Choe coaches as well, giving her a unique perspective on an athlete’s desire to return to his/her sport and the outside pressures they might experience.

Valentine Chouquet is a PhD student in the Empenn team at Inria, Rennes. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Medical Imaging and Therapeutic Radiology in Le Havre, followed by a Master's degree in Health Biology, with a specialization in Signal and Imaging in Medical Biology at the University of Rennes. During her Master's 2 internship, also within the Empenn team, she explored the subject of this abstract.

Throughout her studies, Valentine Chouquet has developed a strong interest in medical imaging, particularly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and has strengthened her expertise in this field. Her research focuses on the impact of mild traumatic brain injury in children on neurodevelopment. Her thesis, untitled "Study of Changes in Brain Structure and Function Following Concussion in Young Children," combines her knowledge of MRI and medical imaging with her interest in studying pediatric mild traumatic brain injury.

Dr. Churchill is a Senior Research Associate at the Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science of St. Michael’s Hospital, and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Physics of Toronto Metropolitan University. His research focuses on the use of advanced magnetic resonance imaging techniques and statistical modelling to understand brain changes after concussion, and their relationship with clinical sequelae.

Marc Khoury is a recently graduated master's student from the University of Toronto, Institute of Medical Science, specializing in Neuroscience research.

Lindsay Nelson. Associate professor in neuropsychology at the university of Milwaukee. Topics of interest: psychometrics methods
Alice Theadom. Professor in Psychology at the university of Auckland, New Zealand. Topics of interest: cognitive disorders after TBI, patient-centered outcomes
Raphaël Cinotti. Professor in Anaesthesia and Intensive care, Nantes university in France. Topics of interest: core outcome set, clinical research

Dr. Matilde Leonardi is an Italian neurologist and paediatrician. At present, she is Director of the Neurology, Public Health, and Disability Unit and of the Coma Research Centre at the Carlo Besta Neurological Institute in Milan.She is a FEAN, (Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology) and a WHO expert and consultant on neurology, disability, ageing and policy development who is co-chair of the WHO NeuroCOVID Forum group on essential neurological services for COVID-19 recoverers. Dr. Leonardi has also been a World Federation of Neurorehabilitation (WFNR) Presidium adjunct member since June 2024 after her mandate as Presidium member for 4 years. She was elected for a second mandate as Chair Communication Committee of the European Academy of Neurology in July 2024

Letizia Clementi is a post-doctoral researcher at Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta. She holds a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering and a PhD in Data Analytics and Decision Science, both from Politecnico di Milano. Her research focuses on clinical data analysis, including instrumental data as fMRI and EEG. Currently, she is investigating methodologies for the analysis of data regarding acquired brain injuries and disorders of consciousness

Dr. Alison Cogan is an Assistant Professor in the Mrs. T. H. Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Southern California (USC). The focus of Dr. Cogan’s research is to improve the quality of rehabilitation services by identifying what combinations of services work best for whom to enable optimal functional performance and community participation for adults with acquired brain injury. She also studies the data visualization approaches to enhance communication about functional recovery among clinical teams, patients, and their families.

Dr. Vincy Chan is an Assistant Scientist at the KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network. She is also an Assistant Professor (Status) at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD in Rehabilitation Science and MPH in Epidemiology, both from the University of Toronto. The overall goal of her research program is to optimize long-term health, health service use, and health outcomes of individuals with traumatic brain injury using a lifespan perspective. Dr. Chan was the recipient of an Early Career Award from the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and a National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research Early Career Research Award from the United States National Institutes of Health.

Jacqueline Conklin is an occupational therapist who has worked with the brain injury population for almost 10 years. She started the first 4 years of her career in inpatient brain injury at Moss Rehabilitation prior to transitioning to pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where she has worked on the inpatient rehab unit for the previous 6 years. Her clinical interests are Disorders of Consciousness, Access and Participation for children with cognitive and physical challenges, cognitive rehabilitation, and complex tone management.

Amy Cook is currently finishing her final year of residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Cook grew up in the Ottawa area and gained early experience working with people with brain injury through coaching adaptive skiing. She completed her Honours Bachelor of Health Sciences with a Minor in Life Sciences undergraduate degree at the University of Ottawa in 2012. Afterwards, she moved to Alberta, Canada where she completed her Master of Science in Occupational Therapy in 2017. Her ongoing interest in neurorehabilitation motivated her to continue her education and pursue medicine with the hopes of becoming a physiatrist. She completed her Doctor of Medicine degree at University of Alberta in 2019, and then moved back to Ottawa to start her residency.

Danielle Corallo is a fourth year doctoral study under the supervision of Dr. Michael Hutchison at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral work focuses on examining the utility of microsampling technologies for blood biomarker research in brain injury.

John D. Corrigan, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Ohio State University and Director of the Ohio Valley Center for Brain Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation. For more than 40 years he has treated, studied and advocated for persons with traumatic brain injury. Dr. Corrigan is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. He has been the PI and co-PI of the Ohio Regional Traumatic Brain Injury Model System since 1997 and chaired the Executive Committee of the TBI Model Systems Project Directors from 2007-2017. Dr. Corrigan is the National Research Director for the Brain Injury Association of America and has previously served other national organizations, including CARF, the Injury Control Center at CDC, the Veterans Administration and the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Health Board. Since 2013 he has served as the Director of the Ohio Brain Injury Program, which is the designated lead agency in the state of Ohio for policy and planning related to living with brain injury. He has more than 200 peer reviewed publications and has received many awards for his service and research in brain injury rehabilitation, including the Brain Injury Association of America’s William Fields Caveness Award, the 2007 Robert L. Moody Prize, and the Gold Key Award from the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.

Kayla Coutts, PT, DPT is a Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Neurologic Physical Therapy and Clinical Specialist at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation West Orange on the acute rehabilitation Brain Injury Unit. She is a leader for therapy in the Implementation of High Intensity Gait Training knowledge translation project, inpatient spasticity rounds, vestibular evaluations, and the Kessler Institute Neurologic Residency program. She received a 2024 Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy Early Career Professional Award.

Natalie V. Covington, PhD CCC-SLP is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota and Rehabilitation Research Scientist at Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute. Her research focuses on long-term recovery after brain injury, with specific interests in the role of memory in successful rehabilitation.

Natalie V. Covington, PhD CCC-SLP is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota and Rehabilitation Research Scientist at Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute. Her research interests include long-term outcomes after traumatic brain injury, the role of memory in successful rehabilitation, and purpose-in-life after acquired brain injury.

Dr. Sharma is a Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. Her research interests are 1) blood based biomarkers of mitochondrial damage to relate the severity of brain injury, and multiorgan dysfunction due to metabolic failure. Her lab is also developing mitochondrial targeted therapeutics to prevent and treat acute and long term consequences of blast TBI.