As a speech therapist and PhD student, Amandine focuses on the development of tools for the assessment and management of dysphagia in patients with disorders of consciousness and with severe brain injury.

Jessica Salley Riccardi, PhD CCC-SLP, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and the Principal Investigator the Brain injury, Education, And Rehabilitation (BEaR) Lab at the University of Maine. Her research focuses on long-term outcomes and clinical practices for children with acquired brain injury. She is particularly interested in the domain of cognitive-communication and in serving groups as risk for disparate outcomes after injury.

Dr Rachael Rietdijk is a certified practising speech pathologist and Lecturer at the University of Sydney, with research interests in acquired brain injury, communication partner training and digital health. Dr Rietdijk completed her PhD in 2020 and her work received the Peter Bancroft Prize for a thesis awarded without emendations within the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. Dr Rietdijk was the project manager overseeing the development of the Social Brain Toolkit from 2020 to 2022, which includes interact-ABI-lity, the first free evidence-based online program for family members, friends, or health professionals about how to communicate successfully with people with a brain injury. This program has reached over 2000 people from over 25 countries since it launched to the public in 2021. She continues to be involved as a collaborator across multiple projects including the Communication Connect NHMRC Ideas Grant and the Communication for Safe Care NDIS Information, Linkages and Capacity Building grant. Dr Rietdijk’s research in the areas of brain injury and communication partner training is internationally recognised, with 24 publications and three book chapters. She is currently working with honours and higher degree research students to continue further projects investigating the use of digital health for communication partner training.

Senior researcher at the Centre of Excellence for Brain Injury and Neuropsychiatry, GGZ Oost Brabant, the Netherlands.

Neuropsychologist Per-Ola Rike holds a PhD in stroke and driving assessements and have a articular interesest in driving assessments and cars in general.

Per-Ola Rike, PhD, clinical neuropsychologist, Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital, Norway

Mathilde is a PhD student in Clinical Psychology at the University of British Columbia. She completed her undergraduate degree at McGill University and her Master's degree under the supervision of Noah Silverberg, at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on identifying the mechanisms underlying the development and maintenance of cognitive symptoms following a concussion, along with treatment avenues for individuals with functional cognitive disorder post-concussion.

María Elisa Rivas is a senior physiotherapist, head of the Physiotherapy Unit at the Fleni Institute, Argentina. She works in the Brain Injury Program, evaluating and treating patients with moderate to severe traumatic and non-traumatic brain injuries, including multisensorial stimulation in people with disorders of consciousness.
María Elisa graduated in Physiotherapy from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) in 2002. She is director of the Specialty in Neurological physiotherapy at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She has completed postgraduate studies in statistics and has collaborated on research teams with scientific publications on brain injury and other neurological diagnoses.

Dr. Andrew MacGregor is currently the senior epidemiologist in the Operational Readiness Directorate at Naval Health Research Center (NHRC), San Diego and the Department Head of the Epidemiology and Data Management Support Department. He has 20 years of active-duty military experience in the U.S. Navy and retired in November 2020. He has since served as a contractor epidemiologist at NHRC and was hired in March 2022 for a civil service supervisory role. His expertise spans various military relevant health issues, including combat trauma, psychological health, musculoskeletal injury, the effects of military deployment, women’s health, traumatic brain injury, hearing loss, and occupational exposures. He has more than 17 years of experience leading military epidemiology projects, and 65 scientific publications and 76 scientific presentations over that timeframe.

Dr. Alexander Ivan B. Posis is a Research Data Analyst at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego, CA. His research interests include applying modern epidemiologic methods to study injury risk, cognitive performance, and brain health.

Dr. Emily Rosario, PhD is a Neuroscientist and current Director of the Research Institute at Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare. She has over 20 years of research experience in rehabilitation medicine, age-related disease and dysfunction, neurologic disorders, and endocrine dysfunction at both the basic science and clinical level. She has nearly 60 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of neuroscience, neurologic disorders, and rehabilitation including several publications in high impact journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the Journal of Neuroscience, Neurology, and Frontiers in Neurendocrinology. Dr. Rosario has received several awards and grants funding her research from the Alzheimer’s Association, the UniHealth Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), specifically, the Eye Institute, National Institute of Aging, and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. She has been invited to present her work both nationally and internationallyincluding the International conference for Alzheimer’s disease, World Congress on Traumatic Brain Injury, and Society for Neuroscience.
As Director of Research at Casa Colina Hospital, Dr. Rosario works with numerous clinicians including physicians, audiologists, neuropsychologists, physical, occupational, and speech therapists on over a dozen diverse research studies. The research, all neurologic or rehabilitation focused, ranges from outcome-based research studies to retrospective, observational, and randomized controlled clinical trials. In addition, she collaborates with several academic and research institutions including Cedar-Sinai, UCLA, USC, and the California Institute of Technology on a number of research projects.

Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Dr. Rosen did his undergraduate work primarily at Oregon State University. After a brief stint with the Forest Service, he returned to school in 1984 to obtain his MD degree at St. Louis University. In 1988 he began his residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at UC Davis, with a strong interest in neurotrauma and specifically acquired brain injuries. Dr. Rosen began practicing Physiatry in Billings, Montana in 1992. In late 2005, he moved his practice to Missoula, Montana. In 2008 he started a private clinical practice, specializing in outpatient brain injury care. In 2014, he became the first physician in Montana to qualify for the new subspecialty of Brain Injury Medicine. Since 2017, Dr. Rosen has been involved in clinical research, primarily focusing on improving the diagnosing of mTBIs and identifying the residual impairments that may be seen with this condition. Dr. Rosen has been affiliated with the Neural Injury Center at the University of Montana, Hellgate High School, in Missoula and with St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, in Spokane, Washington. In May of 2024, Dr. Rosen retired from active clinical practice but continues to do research and some teaching at the Neural Injury Center and at St. Luke’s.

Véronique Rouleau-Gagné is a second-year doctoral candidate in psychology, specializing in clinical neuropsychology at the Université de Montréal. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in psychology from the same institution. Her research focuses on the quality of parent-child relationships following mild traumatic brain injuries sustained in early childhood.

Jared A. Rowland, PhD is a Research Psychologist and Clinical Neuropsychologist at the Salisbury VA Healthcare System in Salisbury North Carolina and an Assistant Professor at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Virginia Tech in 2010. His research examines the health and mental health of service members and veterans following deployment, with a specific focus on the chronic and long-term effects of traumatic brain injury and blast exposure. He is particularly interested in associated changes to brain networks and the connectome as a mechanism leading to long-term problems. As of 2024 Dr. Rowland has published more than 135 scientific articles. He has mentored over 20 medical and allied health trainees. Dr. Rowland currently serves as the Director of the Study of Post-Deployment Mental Health with the Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness, Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MA-MIRECC), a multi-site longitudinal study of over 3,800 Veterans and service members and he is a co-Site PI for LIMBIC-CENC, a national multisite longitudinal consortium studying over 3,000 Veterans and service members.

Laurence Roy, erg., PhD is an occupational therapist and researcher in the field of health, homelessness and social inclusions. She is an Associate Professor at the School of Rehabilitation at Université de Montréal and a researcher at the Pinel Research Institute and the CREMIS.

William Jubinville is an occupational therapist and doctoral student in Rehabilitation Sciences at the School of Rehabilitation at Université de Montréal. His doctoral work consists in better understanding the pathways into homelessness from people who sustained an acquired brain injury, as well as homelessness prevention and reduction strategies for this population.

Isabelle Roy is a Doctoral Candidate in Neuropsychology at the University of Montreal, under the supervision of Miriam Beauchamp (ABCs Laboratory). She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Université de Montréal and has experience in both clinical and research settings. Her thesis project focuses on the clinical utility of a virtual reality tool designed to assess moral reasoning in youth with acquired brain injuries in a pediatric rehabilitation center. Isabelle is also currently working on the COCO (Communication Concussion) Project, a knowledge mobilization initiative aimed at developing tools to better detect concussions in early childhood (0-5 years) and disseminating information on concussion prevention and detection to the public. Additionally, she is completing a neuropsychology internship at Université de Montréal, where she works with children and adolescents, and contributes to various projects related to concussion and cognitive assessment in the ABCs Laboratory.

Sidney Saint is a PhD student (Department of Experimental Medicine) at the University of British Columbia in the lab of Dr. W. Panenka.

Julia Salles holds a Doctorate in Communication studies from the joint program at Université du Québec à Montréal, Concordia University and Université de Montréal. Julia Salles has been teaching communication studies at Université de Montréal since 2017. Since 2022, she is also a research associate (conseillère principale en recherche) at ABCs Developmental Neuropsychology Laboratory, at Université de Montréal and CHU Sainte-Justine, where she contributes to projects at the intersection of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, social cognition, digital health and education.

Maria Ilene Sandboe is a medical student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She is doing a research program with the Trondheim Brain Injury (TBI) Group, which is part of NorHEAD – Norwegian Centre for Headache Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Her research focuses on the characteristics and etiology of persistent post concussion symptoms (PPCS).

Angelle M. Sander, Ph.D. is Professor in the H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine and Director of TIRR Memorial Hermann’s Brain Injury Research Center. She is Project Director for the TIRR Memorial Hermann/Baylor College of Medicine/UThealth Collaborative Traumatic Brain Injury Model System. She has been PI or Co-Investigator on federally funded studies addressing prediction and treatment of cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial problems in persons with TBI, self-management of TBI-related consequences, health literacy in individuals with TBI, intimacy and sexuality after TBI, impact of TBI on caregivers, and social determinants of health following TBI. She has over 140 peer-reviewed publications, numerous book chapters and published abstracts, and multiple consumer-oriented dissemination products, including fact sheets, educational manuals, webcasts, and videos targeted toward individuals with TBI, their care partners, and rehabilitation professionals.

Doctoral student in psychology, in clinical neuropsychology, at Université Laval and part of Dr. Simon Beaulieu-Bonneau's NEURADAP laboratory team, which focuses on rehabilitation neuropsychology. Involved in ABI research since 2021 and my doctoral project focuses on people who have experienced ABI.

Dr. Caroline Schnakers has been working as a clinical scientist in the neurorehabilitation field for the past 20 years. Her work focuses on research on brain-injured patients with Disorders of Consciousness (DOC) and, more particularly, on the assessment of their brain activity and cognitive functions using behavioral, electrophysiological and neuroimaging
techniques. She has published more than 130 articles (H-index: 62) in international peer reviewed journals such as Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Nature Reviews Neurology and Lancet.
Dr. Schnakers is the Associate Director of the Research Institute of Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare (Pomona, CA) and serves as the Chair of the Special Interest Group on Disorders of Consciousness for the International Brain Injury Association.

Andrea Schneider, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Division of Neurocritical Care with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She received her MD in 2014 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and received her PhD in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2012. She completed Neurology Residency and Neurocritical Care Fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2020. She is a neuroepidemiologist who has authored over 130 peer-reviewed publications. Her research program is centered on traumatic brain injury (TBI) epidemiology and the prevention of TBI-related sequelae, with a focus on the prevention of TBI-related neurodegeneration and dementia. Dr. Schneider is the PI of a NINDS K23 grant and three Department of Defense grants. She is the recipient of the 2023 Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award in Clinical Science from the American Neurological Association and the 2023 Rising Star Award from the National Neurotrauma Society.

Josh is a Master’s student co-supervised by Dr. Jonathan Smirl and Dr. Carolyn Emery. He completed his Bachelor of Science (first-class honours) in Exercise and Health Physiology at the University of Calgary in 2024. For his thesis project, he developed a novel arm crank ergometer exercise protocol promoting more accessible concussion rehabilitation methods for para-sport athletes known as the Calgary Adapted aRm Ergometer (CARE) Concussion Exertion Test. His current research is focused on expanding the generalizability of the CARE Test to adolescent and adult para-sport athletes and the larger adapted community. In his free time, Josh loves to be active both in sport and in the community. He played high-level ice hockey for over 17 years and is now a head coach with both HEROS Hockey and Calgary Sledge Hockey Association.

Leigh Schrieff-Brown obtained her PhD from, and is currently an Associate Professor in, the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa. She is also currently the Deputy Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Funding in the Humanities Faculty at UCT and a registered neuropsychologist in South Africa. She has built a research program around, and teaches primarily in, the area of pediatric traumatic brain injury (especially around a range of outcomes and predictors of those outcomes) and neuropsychological rehabilitation. She supervises and teaches on the pediatric component of the Masters in Clinical Neuropsychology in the department. She has supervised several postgraduatestudents (currently from honours to doctoral level), has published book chapters as well as a range of research papers in local and international journals, and presented at several local and international conferences in the above-mentioned fields. In terms of her international profile, she serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the International Paediatric Brain Injury Society (IPBIS), in which she chairs their Trainee/Early Career Subcommittee, as well as serving on the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Justice and Equity Subcommittee and previously on the INS Science Committee. She is also the Regional representative for South Africa and the deputy chair of the INS Global Engagement Committee (GEC).

Dr Regina Schultz is a Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Neuropsychologist, with more than 20 years’ experience working in brain injury rehabilitation and chronic pain management. Regina completed her PhD, examining neuropsychological recovery following severe traumatic brain injury, in 2015 and in 2020 developed the Be Pain Smart Clinic – a specialised clinic for pain management for people with a traumatic brain injury and/or spinal cord injury.

Danielle DuPlessis is a PhD student in Clinical Developmental Psychology and Neuropsychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario. She began her research career at the University of Toronto, pursuing a Master's of Science in Rehabilitation Sciences. During her time at U of T, Danielle's research was focused on co-developing a more sport-like return-to-play assessment, which is now called R2Play. The R2Play system has been piloted with healthy youth athletes, youth athletes with a history of concussion, and is now undergoing cross-site feasibility testing and more extensive validation. For her doctoral research, Danielle aims to expand the scope of R2Play to encompass marginalized populations within concussion, specifically young children and athletes with disabilities. This work is especially significant for Danielle, as she is a Paralympian and youth sports coach.

Dr. Laura Murray is Associate Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies in the Faculty of Health Sciences and a Professor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western University. She has taught courses on aging and neurogenic communication disorders. Research interests include examining how cognitive deficits (e.g. attention) interact with language abilities in aphasia, right hemisphere disorders, or progressive neurological diseases as well as developing assessments and treatments that consider these cognitive deficits.

Isabella is currently pursuing her MA and PhD in Clinical Developmental Psychology (Neuropsychology stream) at York University. Her master's thesis explores the relationships between cognition, concussions, and musculoskeletal injuries among high-performance athletes. Her other research interests include persistent post-concussion symptoms and the mental health impact of traumatic brain injuries.

As a PhD fellow at Coma Science Group, University of Liège, Fatemeh is interested in investigating the efficacy and the underlying neural mechanisms of novel pharmacological and neuromodulatory therapeutic techniques in severely brain-injured patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC). Her research focuses on identifying neuromarkers of treatment responsiveness, using clinical, neurophysiological, and neuroimaging techniques, both in patients with DoC and neurotypical individuals.

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.

Bhanu's research interests and expertise lie at the intersection of concussion, neuroimaging, and exercise medicine. Currently, the status quo of concussion care is changing from “rest is best” to “exercise is medicine”, as research now shows that low-intensity exercise can improve concussion symptoms. To build on this exciting new wave of research, Bhanu is leading a study aimed at understanding the impact of such exercise on not only symptoms, but also brain function.

Josh is currently a PhD candidate in the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto, completing his research within the Bloorview Research Institute at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Shannon Scratch and Dr. Elaine Biddiss. His thesis research is part of the R2Play project, involving development and testing of a technology-mediated multidomain assessment and rehabilitation tool for pediatric concussion. His work uses mixed and multi-methods research approaches incorporating principles of user-centered design and co-design to understand required functionality, iteratively test usability and feasibility, and develop and evaluate a clinician training program.
Josh is also a Registered Kinesiologist and has experience working clinically with adults and youth with concussion, designing individualized exercise and education-based rehabilitation programs to support return to school, sport, work, and life.

Dr Veronik Sicard is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute under the supervision of Dr Andrée-Anne Ledoux and Dr Roger Zemek. Her work is funded by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research postdoc fellowship.

Roberto Llorens graduated from the Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain) with a major in Telecommunications Engineering. He also earned a Masters in Technology, Communication Systems and Networks and got a Doctorate Degree Cum Laude in the same institution, with an Extraordinary Doctorate Award. Dr Llorens is the group leader of the Neurorehabilitation and Brain Research Group of the Universitat Politècnica de València, which is focused on assessing and promoting the recovery of brain function after an injury, and on examining the underlying mechanisms of different brain processes. His early career was awarded with the Early Career Investigator Award of the International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation, which recognizes outstanding scientific work in the field, and with his inclusion in the Program for Talented Researchers of the Generalitat Valenciana, first as a Junior Researcher, and later as a Researcher of Excellence, which highlight the relevance of his contributions and the international projection in the initial phase of his research career. Roberto is a member of the Spanish Society of Neurorehabilitation and the Board of Governors of the International Brain Injury Association.

Ana Sierra graduated in Biomedical Engineering in 2020 at Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (Valencia, Spain). The following year she completed a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at the same institution. After two years as a health data analyst, she decided to apply his knowledge in research. Now is a PhD student at the Neurorehabilitation and Brain Research Group of the Human-Tech Institute at Univeristat Politècnica de Valencia. Her research is focused on the analysis of clinical data related to the progression of patients in altered states of consciousness after brain damage, as well as the processing and analysis of physiological, neurophysiological and metabolic signals of these patients.

Chase Siewert is an undergraduate student at Elon University pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Biology. He anticipates graduating in May 2025. He is deeply involved in clinical and research activities to advance his career in medicine. Chase is currently engaged in concussion research as part of Elon's BrainCARE program, investigating the utility of pre-concussion testing as a proxy screen for anxiety and depression. His work contributes valuable insights into potential interventions and support mechanisms to enhance care for athletes following concussive injuries. Chase's involvement in healthcare extends beyond research. He serves as a Clinical Assistant at the Open Door Clinic, where he actively contributes to enhancing healthcare access for underserved communities. His practical experience also includes shadowing neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons, which has significantly broadened his understanding of complex medical issues and patient care techniques. Chase's academic journey is marked with honors, including memberships in Phi Eta Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies and receiving the prestigious Presidential Scholarship at Elon University. His unwavering commitment to healthcare excellence and research innovation is a testament to his passion, and he is eager to participate in the IBIA conference in Montreal.

Je suis travailleuse sociale de formation et maintenant candidate au doctorat en sciences de la réadaptation à l'Université Laval. Mes intérets de recherche porte sur le traumatisme craniocérébral, la proche aidance et le vieillissement en contexte d'incapacité.

Grahame Simpson is Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney; Leader of the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Research Stream, John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research at the University; and Director, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Research Group, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, Sydney Australia. His research interests focus around positive adjustment to acquired brain injury, with a focus on intervention research in the areas of mental health/suicide prevention, sexual health, employment, prosocial behaviour, assistive technology and family resilience.

Grahame Simpson is Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney; Program Lead, Brain Injury Stream, John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research, Northern Sydney Local Health District; Director, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Research Group, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, Sydney; and Adjunct Professor, Menzies Health Institute, Griffith University Queensland. He has dual professional qualifications as an accredited social worker and registered psychologist.

Dr Whiting is a clinical psychologist and researcher with over 20 years working clinically with individuals with a brain injury. Her research interests involve investigating the efficacy of psychological treatment for individuals with a traumatic brain injury, with a focus on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, developing and validating outcome measures and examining the processes of change during psychological therapy.

Dr Whiting is a clinical psychologist with over 20 years experience in brain injury, who undertakes research into effective psychological treatments after a traumatic brain injury. She is also interested in validating outcome measures and investigating processes of change in psychological therapies.

Dr. Singh is Professor & Chair in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UT Tyler School of Medicine. He has over 30 years of experience in collaborating with investigators in inter- and multi-disciplinary and translational research on many NIH-funded research projects. He has served as PI, Co-PI, Co-I, and Core Director at various research centers and/or on multi-million-dollar grants, supporting projects by providing innovative statistical approaches, statistical consultation, and database management, in compliance with NIH and FDA regulations. Dr. Singh served on the NCI Gynecologic Cancer Steering Committee (GCSC) as well as on the GCSC Cervical Task Force. As Chair or a member, he has served on Data Safety Monitoring Boards, External Advisory Boards and Scientific Study Sections. He has expertise in statistical study design and methodology and in the application of various statistical modeling techniques. Dr. Singh research interests include developing methods for the analysis of proteomic data, identifying cut-off points for biomarkers, clinical trials design and longitudinal data analysis, and survival methodology, health services research methodology, infectious and chronic disease modeling, and health disparities research. He has over 270 publications in high impact journal publications, numerous peer-reviewed conference proceedings and book chapters. Dr. Singh co-authored a book tilted Introduction to Statistical Analysis of Laboratory Data published by John Wiley and Sons. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Modeling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, and the Indian Society for Medical Statistics.

Reka Sivasubramaniyam is an athletic therapist who certified through the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association (CATA) in July 2023. She completed her undergraduate degree in Honours Athletic Therapy at Concordia University in Montréal (Québec) in May 2023. Since graduation, she has been active in the athletic therapy community, working with different sports at different levels and ages. She has also been involved as a research assistant in various projects pertaining to repeated head impacts. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in physical activity sciences at University du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). Her main research interests relate to repeated head impacts, with a more specific focus on the aspects of prevention and rehabilitation.

Dr. Beth Slomine is Co-Director of the Center for Brain Injury Recovery and Assistant Vice President of Psychology at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also the Director of Rehabilitation Neuropsychology within the Department of Neuropsychology at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has a secondary appointment in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. She is a licensed psychologist, board certified clinical neuropsychologist, and board certified subspecialist in pediatric neuropsychology. Research interests include neurobehavioral measurement, outcomes, and interventions following pediatric neurological injury. Dr. Slomine has authored >85 peer-reviewed manuscripts, numerous book chapters, and co-edited a textbook entitled Cognitive Rehabilitation for Pediatric Neurological Conditions.

Alicia Smalls is a second-year PhD student in Exercise Science with a focus on Rehabilitation Science and Neuroscience at the University of South Carolina, researching concussion and health neuroscience. Holding advanced degrees in Speech Pathology & Audiology, Public Health (Epidemiology), and Exercise Science, she also brings extensive clinical experience as a Medical Speech-Language Pathologist and private practitioner. Alicia is certified as a Brain Injury Specialist, Dementia Practitioner, and LSVT-LOUD specialist, applying her expertise to support cognitively and communicatively impaired patients.

In her research, Alicia has explored noise hazard outcomes in rural farmers, earning awards such as the Norman J. Arnold Fellowship and SCSHA’s Outstanding Poster Presentation. As a Graduate Research Assistant, she contributes to data collection, analysis, and publication, integrating clinical insights with research to drive impactful healthcare outcomes.

A Qualified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher through the University of California San Diego’s Center for Mindfulness, Jessie Rain Anne Smith is the founder of Mindful Concussion and the developer of Mindfulness for Dysregulated Nervous Systems (MDNS), a modified approach to mindfulness practice for people who have a propensity for dysregulation. Smith trained in Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness under psychologist Dr. David Treleaven, and has taught workshops to brain injury organizations in Canada and New Zealand, as well as the Mindful Concussion course she developed to support fellow survivors. Smith published her findings in OT Now of the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists. Following a 2013 car accident that resulted in a brain injury, Smith was prescribed mindfulness. She learned first-hand the power (nervous system regulation) and the perils (panic attacks and dissociation) of treating brain injuries with mindfulness. Her body has been a beaker in a decade-long experiment to discover how to modify mindfulness so that brain injury survivors can harness the benefits of mindfulness while mitigating its potential risks. Smith is completing the book, The Power and the Perils of Mindfulness for Brain Injury. Praising the work, neuropsychologist Dr. Rick Hanson said, "Your personal story combined with clinical acumen plus mindfulness wisdom make for a great combination." In addition to her expertise in mindfulness, Smith holds an MA in Political Economy from Carleton University and has been an educator in Latin American and Canadian Studies at Langara College in Vancouver for 25 years.

Katherine Price Snedaker, LCSW, is the Executive Director and Founder of PINK Concussions, a 501c3 non-profit, for female brain injury from sport, domestic violence/assault, accidents or military service. Snedaker is an international speaker, brain injury professional, researcher, brain injury survivor and parent of a child with a brain injury. Snedaker has presented on sex differences in brain injury at conferences including ones by United States Department of Veterans Affairs VA, Boston Children's Hospital, Ohio State University, and the International Brain Injury Association IBIA.

PINK Concussions is a non-profit to focus on female brain injury including concussions from sport, domestic violence, accidents or military service. PINK Concussions’ mission is to drive change and innovation to develop sex/gender-appropriate, evidence-based research approaches on identification, management and support of women and girls with brain injuries.

Helene Soberg's reserach interest is related to rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury and multiple trauma, and concern, post-injury functioning, quality of life, and rehabilitation services.

Andrea Soddu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Western Ontario, where he is also affiliated with the Western Institute for Neuroscience. His research focuses on applying advanced neuroimaging techniques and computational models to study consciousness, particularly in patients with disorders of consciousness (pDoC). He is a key contributor to the development and application of Integrated Information Theory (IIT) to assess brain dynamics using fMRI. Dr. Soddu collaborates with international teams and has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications. His work is recognized for bridging neuroscience and physics, offering novel insights into brain network functionality and recovery predictions in brain injury patients.

Andrea Soddu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Western Ontario, where he is also affiliated with the Western Institute for Neuroscience. His research focuses on applying advanced neuroimaging techniques and computational models to study consciousness, particularly in patients with disorders of consciousness (pDoC). He is a key contributor to the development and application of Integrated Information Theory (IIT) to assess brain dynamics using fMRI. Dr. Soddu collaborates with international teams and has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications. His work is recognized for bridging neuroscience and physics, offering novel insights into brain network functionality and recovery predictions in brain injury patients.

Clara Soligon is an athletic therapist from Concordia University and a PhD student supervised by Dr. Kathryn Schneider in the Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary. Her research interests include sport-related concussions, female specific sex factors, and rugby.

She did part of her honours thesis at the University of Newcastle in Australia and part of her master's degree at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Her research dissertation includes sex differences and sport-related concussions in professional rugby players.