Message From the Chair Dear BI-ISIG Colleagues, It was wonderful to see so many of you at the ACRM annual meeting in Chicago this past fall! We had an impressive turnout of First-Time and Early Career Attendees, many of whom joined us for the BI-ISIG Summit and...
Letter From the Editor Dear Moving Ahead Readers: If you missed the 2019 Annual Conference in Chicago, I’m sorry! There were phenomenal speakers making it somewhat challenging to decide where to go next. I’m confident that the 2020 Annual Conference will be even...
Supporting Early Career Involvement at Annual Conference In my role as the BI-ISIG Early Career Officer, I often consider what responsibility the BI-ISIG—and more broadly, ACRM—has in supporting and sponsoring participation of its Early Career and...
BI-ISIG Task Force Funding Opportunity A competitive grant opportunity seeks to fund high-quality projects to be led by BI-ISIG Task Force members. Eligible projects are expected to have a meaningful impact in the field of brain injury rehabilitation. To apply for...
Member Contributions to IBIA Members of the BI-ISIG made significant contribution to the leadership, planning, and presentation of scholarly work at IBIA 13th World Congress on Brain Injury in Toronto, Canada, 13 – 16 March 2019. A few of the symposia presented by...
Current Task Force Updates – Select Task Forces COGNITIVE REHABILITATION TASK FORCE The Cognitive Rehabilitation task force was busy in 2019. Some of their accomplishments include completing the 2nd edition of the ACRM Cognitive Rehabilitation manual and...
BI-ISIG Members in the Spotlight RISA NAKASE-RICHARDSON, PHD, FACRM Dr. Risa Nakase-Richardson is a Professor and Director of the Sleep Medicine Research in the Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine of the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of...
Tolu Oyesanya, PhD, RN Tolu Oyesanya, PhD, RN, is an Assistant Professor at Duke University School of Nursing. Dr. Oyesanya’s research program centers on care of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in acute and post-acute treatment settings, as well as support...
2019 Joshua B. Cantor Scholar Award The BI-ISIG Executive Committee is pleased to recognize the recipient of the 2019 Joshua B. Cantor Award is Noah Silverberg, PhD. This award was established in honor of Joshua Cantor, former ACRM and BI-ISIG member. Award...
ACRM Awardees & Fellows Congratulations to our BI-ISIG members who were 2019 ACRM Award winners! ACRM FELLOWS Five of the eight 2019 Fellows of ACRM are BI-ISIG Members. They are: Leora Reiff Cherney, PhD, CCC-SLP, BC-ANCD, FACRMScientific ChairShirley Ryan...
BI-ISIG Members Honored With 2019 BIAA Awards Please congratulate fellow ACRM BI-ISIG members, Jennifer Bogner, PhD, FACRM (Immediate Past-Chair of the BI-ISIG) and Samantha Backhaus, PhD, on their prestigious Brain Injury Association of America awards. They were...
Meet the 2019 BI-ISIG Annual Conference Travel Scholarship Recipients Scholarships are awarded to early career professionals within five years of completion of training (i.e., terminal degree or fellowship training) or consumers. They must plan to attend ACRM’s...
BI-ISIG 2019-2020 Media Committee Mary E. Russell, DO, MS, CLCP ASSOCIATE EDITORMedial Director, Acute Inpatient RehabilitationTIRR Memorial Hermann – The WoodlandsAssistant Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation University of Texas Health...
BI-ISIG 2019-2020 Executive Committee Kristen Dams-O’Connor, PhD, FACRM CHAIRMount Sinai Brain Injury Research CenterMount Sinai Injury Control Research CenterDepartment of Rehabilitation MedicineDepartment of NeurologyIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew...
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