Girls & Women with ABI Task Force

MISSION

To advance scientific knowledge, develop standards of practice, and advocate for the appropriate care of girls and women with acquired brain injury and as such address the inequity of research on this area. To promote knowledge mobilization with respect to research on girls and women with acquired brain injury in collaboration with stakeholders.

UPCOMING MEETINGS

Thank you for being a part of the BI-ISIG Girls and Women w/ABI Task Force! We love that ACRM attracts the most passionate interdisciplinary mix of rehabilitation pros from around the world. What an honor to collaborate with such driven individuals. We hope to meet with you at our upcoming networking group meeting to discuss current projects and opportunities for contribution and collaboration.

Girls and Women with ABI Task Force Meeting

Join us to discuss the 2025 ACRM Annual Conference, Task Force updates, and new projects.

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DATE: First Thursday of each Month
TIME: 2:00 PM ET

Meeting ID: 859 0638 3588
Passcode: 090807

CO-CHAIRS

Angela Colantonio, PhD, FACRM
Professor and Director, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute
University of Toronto/ CIHR Research Chair in Gender Work and Health
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Yelena Goldin, PhD
Clinical and Research Neuropsychologist
JFK – Johnson Rehabilitation Institute
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Brooke Holt, PhD, CCC-SLP
PT Assistant Professor & Online MA SLP Externship Coordinator
UNC Greenboro

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MEMBERS

Our task force benefits from the contributions of women with lived experience of brain injury, persons involved in advocacy, clinicians and researchers from around the world.

COLLABORATING ORGANIZATIONS

• Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University of Toronto
• Disabled Women’s Network of Canada
• Brain Injury Canada, Women and Spinal Cord Injury Task Force
• Pink Concussions

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE ARCHIVES

Don’t miss the Special Supplement to the ACRM journal, Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Sex, Gender, and Traumatic Brain Injury, guest edited by Girls and Women With ABI Task Force Chair, Dr. Angela Colantonio.

First published with the February 2016 issue. READ IT ONLINE >>>

2025 GOALS

1. Recruitment of new members
2. Monthly calls for knowledge exchange, support, mentorship, guest speakers
3. Finalizing publication of I/EP on TBI and IPV
4. Deborah Lee Price Poster Award
5. Symposia
6. Follow up I/EP

2023/2024 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

1. New membership
2. Monthly calls for knowledge exchange, support, mentorship, guest speakers
3. Symposia
4. ACRM I/EP on IPV and TBI submitted
5. Deborah Lee Price Poster Award

2024 GOALS

1. Recruitment of new members
2. Monthly calls for knowledge exchange, support, mentorship, guest speakers
3. Publication if I/EP on TBI and IPV
4. Deborah Lee Price Poster Award
5. Symposia: Sex & Gender
6. Review mTBI and sex & gender considerations in clinical practice: Clinical guidance documents

2022-2023 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

1. New Co-Chair – Brooke Holt, PhD, CCC-SLP
2. New international membership
3. Monthly calls for knowledge exchange, support, mentorship, guest speakers
4. Deborah Lee Price Poster Award
5. Symposia with International Representation: IPV & Brain Injury – coordinated by ABI Task Force Member
6. Systematic review: Rehabilitation & IPV 7. Development of Brain Injury IPV Screening Too

2021-2022 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

1. ACRM Chatauqua on IPV and Brain Injury
2. Many other symposia: sex and gender, IPV and brain injury, underserved population
3. Monthly calls
4. Exceptional presentations by leading researchers as part of meeting providing information sharing and feedback including impact on COVID
5. Special Issue in JHTR: IPV and Brain injury Completed in January
6. Deborah Lee Price Poster Award
7. Knowledge Transfer Activities
8. Thank you for scholarships for trainees

2017 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

1. Increased membership and activities, monthly calls
2. Public Education: Presentation on Capitol Hill
3. Presentations of numerous symposia internationally
4. Systematic reviews; Pelvic health, assistive technology
5. Availability and access to care issues
6. Examination of journal reporting policies
7. Support for Brain Injury Consumers: Scholarship
8. Synergy with International Networking Group
9. Presentation at NIH Women and TBI workshop/White paper