The National Advisory Board - Medical

  CVs
Marilyn Price Spivack - Honorary Chair, National Advisory Board, Founder, The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA), Neurotrauma Outreach Coordinator at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston MA

P. David Adelson M.D., FACS, FAAP, Director, Phoenix Children’s Neuroscience Institute, Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery; President, Congress of Neurological Surgeons; Past Chair, AANS/CNS Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care; Principal Investigator, Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Consortium: Hypothermia (“Cool Kids Trial”)

Mary Aitken MD, MPH, Director, Trauma Research, Arkansas Children's Hospital;Section Chief, Center for Applied Research and Evaluation. Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR;Professor of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR;Medical Director, Arkansas Children's Hospital Injury Prevention Center

Michael Alexander MD, Medical Director, Philadelphia Easter Seal Society; Professor, Pediatrics & Rehabilitation Medicine, Thomas Jefferson Medical College; Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware

Gavin Attwood , Executive Director, Brain Injury Association of Colorado

Eric Bailey PH.D., President & CEO, NeuroLogica Corp.

Marilyn Barr , Founder and Executive Director, National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome

Julie Barrow Ed.D., Clinical Instructor, College of Nursing and Public Health; Program Administrator, Center for Distance Health

James Baumgartner M.D., Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatric Neurosurgical Specialists, Memorial Hermann Children’s Hospital; Medical Director, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Shriner’s Hospital for Crippled Children; Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Texas Medical School at Houston

Kirsten Bechtel M.D., Kirsten Bechtel, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine; Pediatric Medical Staff, Injury Free Coalition for Kids, Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital

Gary Bedell Ph.D., Tufts University, Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy

Michael Bell M.D., Associate Director, Pediatric Neurointensive Care, Safer Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh

Rachel Berger M.D., MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Paul Berger-Gross Ph.D., Director of Traumatic Brain Injury Program, St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children

Lucia Braga Ph.D., President - SARAH Network of Rehabilitation Hospitals, Member - Board of Directors - International Brain Injury Association

Brenda Eagan Brown M.S. Ed, C, Brain Injury School Re-entry Program Coordinator, Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania

Tanya Brown Ph.D., Senior Associate Consultant - Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Department of Psychiatry & Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota;

Javier Cardenas M.D., Pediatric Neurology Fellow, Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center

Rene Carfi  MSW, LSW, Director of Community & Information Services for Brain Injury Association of New Jersey

Sandra Chapman Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas, Chief Director, Center for Brain Health, Dee Wyly Distinguished Chair in BrainHealth; Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences

James Christensen MD, Vice President of Rehabilitation, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland;Associate Professor, Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore Maryland;Director of the Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Janice Cockrell MD, FAAP, , Medical Director, Pediatric Rehabilitation, Legacy Emanuel Children’s Hospital;Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health Sciences University

Michael Collins PH.D., Sports Concussion Program, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Sports Medicine

Lori G. Cook M.S., CCC-, Research Coordinator/Clinician, University of Texas at Dallas, Center for Brain Health

Charles Cox, Jr. M.D., Clinical Professor, Surgical Oncology and Pediatrics, Children's Cancer Hospital at M.D. Anderson; The Children's Fund, Inc. Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical School at Houston; Pediatric Trauma Program Director and Co-Director of the ExtraCorporeal Life Support Program, Memorial Hermann Children's Hospital

Drew Davis M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Michael Davis CBIS-CE, President and Senior Case Manager, Neurological Case Management Associates, LLC

Linda Degutis PH.D., MSN, Director, Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness, Yale School of Public Health; Director, Research Division, Section of Emergency Medicine;Associate Professor, Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery (primary appointment), School of Medicine Environmental Health Division, School of Public Health Yale University

Roberta DePompei Ph.D., University of Akron, Professor and Chairman, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Director, School of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

Judy Dettmer , Director of Traumatic Brain Injury Program - Colorado Department of Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation

Jennipher Dickens , Founder, Stop Shaken Baby Syndrome Inc.; Leadership Committee, Keeping Babies Safe in North Carolina - Period of PURPLE Crying

Jeanne Dise-Lewis Ph.D, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Associate Professor, The Children's Hospital (Aurora, CO), Director, Psychology Services in Rehabilitation Medicine

Sherilyn Driscoll M.D., Director of Pediatric Rehabilitation - Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic, Rochester; Program Director - Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Fellowship, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Rochester

Eileen Elias M. Ed., Senior Policy Advisor on Mental Health and Disabilities, JBS International Inc.

Deborah Gaebler-Spira M.D., Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

Jane Gillett M.D., McMaster University, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, Chedoke Hospital (Hamilton, ON), Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

Gerard Gioia Ph.D., Children's National Medical Center, George Washington University School of Medicine, Director, Pediatric Neuropsychology Program

Christopher Giza M.D., UCLA Brain Injury Research Center, Associate Professor of Pediatric Neurology and Neurosurgery, Mattel Children's Hospital - UCLA

Ann Glang Ph.D., Ann Glang, PhD. Senior Fellow, Research Professor, Teaching Research Institute, Western Oregon University; Research Scientist, Oregon Center for Applied Science.

Roberta Glick M.D., Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Rush Medical College

Wayne Gordon Ph.D., Jack Nash Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Rebecca Gordon R.N., CLNC, CLCP, R. Gordon Medical-Legal Services

Sharon Grandinette MS, CBIST, Special Education Consultant, Acquired Brain Injury Specialist, Exceptional Educational Services

Shelly  Grinde MA, CCC-SL, Director of Services & Supports Center for Disabilities Department of Pediatrics Sanford School of Medicine The University of South Dakota;

Stanley Grogg DO, FACOP,, Interim President and Dean, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences

Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa PH.D., Research Project Coordinator, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Rehabilitation Services; American Speech-Language Hearing Association Special Interest Divisions (ASHA): Dysphagia, Neurogenics, Child Language, Augmentative Communication;Dysphagia Research Society;Georgia Speech-Language and Hearing Association International Neuropsychological Society

Patricia Haldeman , Founder, The John Blair Haldeman Fund

Marie Hayes Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine;Senior Scientist, Maine Institute of Human Genetics & Health

James Heckman Ph.D., Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at The University of Chicago

Neil Herendeen MD, MS, Health-e-Access, University of Rochester Medical Center

Stephen Hooper Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Research Professor of Psychology, Clinical Professor of Education - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Gillian Hotz Ph.D., University of Miami, Associate Research Professor, Division of Trauma & Surgical Critical Care, Dewitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, Department of Neurological Surgery

David Hovda Ph.D., Director - UCLA Brain Injury Research Center, Professor - Departments of Neurosurgery and of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Bryan Hudson Ph.D., Co-Founder, St. Vincents Hospital Neuropsychology Program; Director, Pediatric Neuropsychology Clinic, Methodist Children's Hospital; Expert Witness in Neuropsychology - Mitigation and Pretrial, Federal Defenders - United States Government

James Hudziak MD, Thomas M. Achenbach Chair in Developmental Psychopathology; Research Director, Pediatric Psychopharmacology, University of Vermont; Director, Division of Behavioral Genetics, University of Vermont; Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Vermont;

Jill Hunter M.B.B.S., , Professor of Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine

Louis Hyman , Executive Vice President / Chief Technology Officer, eHealth Solutions, Inc.

Joseph Iocono M.D., Associate Professor, Special Title Series, Academic Medical Educator - University of Kentucky College of Medicine; Kentucky Children’s Hospital - Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Surgery

Harvey Jacobs Ph.D., Partner - Lash and Associates Publishing/Training, Board of Directors - North American Brain Injury Society

George Jallo M.D., Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, Pediatrics and Oncology, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Carole Jenny MD, 1996- Head of the Division of Child Maltreatment, Department of Pediatrics, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island 1998- Professor of Pediatrics, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Jean  Johnson  Ph.d., Associate Director, Associate Professor Center on Disability Studies College of Education University of Hawai'i

Kim Kang , Public Policy and Early Childhood Director, PACER Center; Co-founder, The Shaken Baby Alliance

Mary Kennedy Ph.D., Associate Professor Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota

Katherine Kimes , Doctoral Candidate Special Education, Leaders for System Change Program, Graduate School of Education & Human Development

Kristin King Dr., Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor, Audiology and Speech Pathology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Stephen Kinsman M.D., Head, Division of Pediatric Neurology, Medical University of South Carolina; North American Corresponding Member of Executive Committee – Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida;

John Kuluz M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami; Scientific Director, Pediatric Critical Care Research Laboratory; Attending Physician, Pediatric Intensive Care Unity and the Pediatric Rehabilitation Unit, Jackson Children's Hospital

Shayne Ladak M.D., Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, McMaster University (Hamilton, ON); Team Physician, Canadian Soccer Association; Team Physician, Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), Special interest in Neurotrauma, Sport Sciences and Athletic Health

Josiane LaJoie M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, New York University Langone Medical Center

Marilyn Lash MSW, Director, Lash & Associates Publishing & Training

Karen Lawson Ph.D., Director, Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation (WINDREF)

Harvey Levin Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Pediatrics and Neurosurgery

Deborah Little Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, Director, Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Neurology

Shawn Lyndon , Founder - Orasi Medical, Inc.

Carol Macmillan M.D., University of Chicago Medical Center, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Neurology

James Marcin MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Section of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of California Davis; Faculty, UC Davis Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care; Faculty, Graduate Group in Epidemiology, UC Davis; Faculty, Health Informatics Graduate Group, UC Davis; Faculty, Master of Public Health Program, UC Davis

Jeffrey Max M.D., University of California at San Diego, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital & Health Center (San Diego, CA), Director, Neuropsychiatric Research

Bruce McEwen Ph.D., Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and Head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at The Rockefeller University

Gigi McMillan , Consultant, Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation, New York, NY; Founder/Executive Director, We Can - Pediatric Brain Tumor Network, Los Angeles, CA

J. Wayne Meredith M.D., FACS, Richard T. Myers Professor of Surgery, Chairman, Department of General Surgery, Chief of Surgery, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

Margaret Mikol , Founder, Sick Kids need Involved People (SKIP) of New York, Inc.

Elizabeth  Moberg-Wolff MD, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Director, Tone Management and Mobility, Director Ped PM&R Fellowship, Children’s Hospital of WI, Medical College of Wisconsin

Peg Molloy , President, Vista Partners / Vista LifeSciences (Englewood and Parker, CO)

David Mooney M.D., MPH, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Director, Trauma Program, Department of Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston

Robin Morlier M.S., Bilingual Speech Pathologist/Consultant

Michael Mozzoni Ph.D., Regional Program Director - Learning Services NeuroBehavioral Institute West, Lakewood Colorado; Brain Injury Association of Colorado, Education Committee member 2008-Present;Committee member serving the Brain Injury Association of America's, Academy for the Certification of Brain Injury Specialists (ACBIS): Chair Graduate Student Provisional Certification Committee 2009-present Lawyer Certification Committee. 2009-present Chair ACBIS Certification Test committee 2005-present Treasurer of ACBIS, ’04-present

Michael Msall M.D., Professor of Pediatrics - University of Chicago; Pritzker School of Medicine - Section Chief, Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics; Comer Children’s Hospital, LaRabida Children’s Hospital

Robert Murphy Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for Child & Family Health, Duke University

Nancy Murphy Dr., Medical Director, IHC Pediatric Homecare Services Salt Lake City, UT, Medical Director, Pediatric Transitional Care Program South Davis Community Hospital, Bountiful, UT, Medical Director, Pediatric Special Care Program, University of Utah Department of Pediatrics and Primary Children's Medical Center

Charles Nelson III, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research; Division of Developmental Medicine Director, Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience, Children’s Hospital Boston

Edward Nemeth , Founder - C.H.E.R.I.S.H. Foundation

Peter Patrick Ph.D., University of Virginia, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Division of Psychology, Department of Pediatrics

Stephanie Peabody Psy.D., Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Visiting Scholar; Director of International Mind, Brain, Health, Education Initiative

Beth Pearson MSW, Program Manager, Hood Center for Children and Families, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH

Daniel Perl M.D., Director of Neuropathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Jose Pineda M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Neurology, Division of Critical Care Medicine Washington University School of Medicine

Alan Pitt M.D., Physician Liaison, Radiology IT, Adjunct Professor, ASU Department of Biomedical Informatics, Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital (Phoenix, AZ)

Etienne Pracht Ph.D., Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, University of South Florida

Mark Proctor M.D., Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Associate in Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital Boston

Bradford Ross Ph.D., Staff Neuropsychologist, Children's Specialized Hospital

Armando Rotondi Ph.D., Associate Professor, CCM, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh

Desmond Runyan M.D., Dr Ph, Chair, Department of Social Medicine and Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, The University of North Carolina School of Medicine; Professor, Departments of Social Medicine and Pediatrics, School of Medicine; Clinical Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;

Nick Rushworth MA, Executive Officer, Brain Injury Australia;President, Brain Injury Association of New South Wales.

Barbara Salisbury , Chief Administrative Officer, Massachusetts Association for the Blind

David Salsberg Psy.D., DABPS, Supervisor of Pediatric Psychology, Rusk Institute, New York University School of Medicine

Marsha  Sampson ME, Montana Center on Disabilities (MCD)- Interim Director;American Indian Big Sky Projects (AIBSP) - Interim Director

Ron Savage Ed.D., President, North American Brain Injury Society, Founder, The Pediatric Task Force of the Brain Injury Association of America, Senior Consultant, The Center for Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Health (Voorhees, NJ), Editor, Brain Injury Professional

Holly Schifsky , Staff Occupational Therapist;Pediatric Program Manager; 2004 Recipient of the GeorgeAnn Claussen award of excellence for patient care by Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital; 2005 Nebraska Occupational Therapy Practitioner of the Year Recipient; Member of NOTA and AOTA

Howard Shane Ph.D., Director, Center for Communication Enhancement, Children's Hospital Boston; Associate Professor of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences &Technology

Jean Simon P.T., D.P., MS, Supervisor, Pediatric Physical Therapy, Rusk Institute, New York University School of Medicine

Edwin Simpser M.D., Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Medical Officer, St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children

William Singer M.D., MassGeneral Hospital for Children (Boston, MA), Newton-Wellesley Hospital (Newton, MA), Director, The Center for Developmental Neurology & Pediatric Behavioral Medicine

Beth Slomine PhD, ABPP, Director, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Services, Department of Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute;Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Jodi  Smith PhD, MD, Director, Pediatric Neurosurgery Riley Hospital for Children;Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery

Shannon Smith MD, FAAPMR, Assistant Professor University Physician Associates, University of Mississippi Medical Center- Consultant for University Rehabilitation Center;Physician Children's Rehabilitation Services, Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children

Mckay Sohlberg Ph.D., McKay Moore Sohlberg, PhD, Associate Professor/CDS Graduate Studies Coordinator, Communication Disorders & Sciences, University of Oregon

Russell Spearman MEd., Project Director, Idaho Traumatic Brain Injury Partnership Grant, Idaho State University, Boise Center, Idaho;2006 Federal TBI Program’s Most Valuable TBISERV Contributor

William Spivak M.D., Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell University Medical College; Pediatric Gastroenterology, New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell

Kimberly Statler MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah ;Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah College of Pharmacy, Salt Lake City, Utah;Faculty, Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.;Associate Medical Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Primary Children's Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT.;Medical Director, Respiratory Care Services, Primary Children's Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT

Donald Stein Ph.D., Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Asa G. Candler Professor of Emergency Medicine and Neurology.

Laurence Steinberg Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor, Temple University; Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology, Temple University; Professor of Psychology, Temple University

James Swift MD, FAAP, Founder of Children's Critical Care Network.

Clare Tanner PhD, Program Director, Center for Data Management and Translational Research at the Michigan Public Health Institute, Okemos, Michigan

H. Gerry Taylor Ph.D., ABPP/CN – Case Western Reserve University, Professor of Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, University Hospitals of Cleveland

Joseph Tepas III M.D., FACS, FAAP, University of Florida, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery

Bonnie Todis Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Research Professor, Teaching Research Institute, Western Oregon University

Lyn Turkstra Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Janet Tyler Ph.D., University of Kansas Medical Center, Director, Neurologic Disabilities Support Project

Shaheen Usmani Ph.D., Professor, Seneca College of Applied Arts and College; Faculty Position, Mothercraft College

Susan Vaughn , Director of Public Policy, National Association of State Head Injury Administrators (NASHIA), S.L. Vaughn & Associates, LLC

Monica Vavilala M.D., Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, University of Washington; Associate Director, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (HIPRC)

Juan Vigo Priento MD, Certified by American Board of Neurological Surgeons; Lecturer

Joshua Vova M.D., FAAP, FAAPMR, Pediatric Physiatrist, Children’s Rehabilitation Services Division, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Shari Wade Ph.D., Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Director of Research, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Mark Wainwright M.D., Ph.D, Associate Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Children's Memorial Hospital

Steven Weinstein M.D., Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Chris Weiss , President & Chief Executive Officer, Dynamic Clinical Systems, Inc.

Daniel Winchester Ph.D., Specialist in rehabilitation with focus on Developmental Psychology

Dorothy Worrell A.A., Executive Director, Brain Injury Association of Wyoming, Casper, Wyoming;Core Member of Wyoming ABI Task Force;Member of NASHIA, and NASHIA's 2006 conference planning committee (National Association of State Head Injury Administrators);Affiliate of BIAUSA (Brain Injury Association of America) and member of Executive Director's Society

Keith Yeates Ph.D., Ohio State University, Director, Division of Psychology, Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus, OH), Chief, Department of Psychology

Mark Ylvisaker Ph.D. * , College of Saint Rose, Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders (* deceased)

Victoria Youcha Ed.D., Director, BrainLine