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The Robert L. Moody Prize for Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury Research and Rehabilitation

The Robert L. Moody Prize for Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury Research and Rehabilitation. Thursday, May 15, 2008 Moody Gardens Hotel and Conference Center Galveston, Texas. Presented  by: The Center for Rehabilitation Sciences and the School of Allied Health Sciences at

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The Robert L. Moody Prize for Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury Research and Rehabilitation

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  1. The Robert L. Moody Prizefor Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury Research and Rehabilitation Thursday, May 15, 2008 Moody Gardens Hotel and Conference Center Galveston, Texas Presented  by:The Center for Rehabilitation Sciences and the School of Allied Health Sciences at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

  2. In Honor of… Named for Mr. Robert Moody, whose family experiences impelled him to embark on a journey of sustained personal dedication toward improving the care for survivors of brain injury. His work has created a legacy of progress in rehabilitation education, service, and research.

  3. 2001 Prize Recipient Mitchell Rosenthal, Ph.D,died on May 31, 2007 after a long and distinguished career in brain injury. Mitch was Chief Operating Officer for Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research Corporation and a Professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He served as Project Director of the TBI National Database Center, funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and is the former President of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.

  4. 2002 Prize Recipient Jeffrey S. Kreutzer, Ph.D. With an active clinical practice, Dr. Kreutzer coordinates the delivery of psychological and neuropsychological services to both inpatients and outpatients who have a wide variety of neurological disabilities. His practice emphasizes holistic rehabilitation, self-advocacy, long-term needs, psychotherapy, helping persons return to work, and family intervention.

  5. 2004 Prize Recipient Roberta DePompei, PhD: She has developed support groups, co-established a TBI Collaborative and conducted research on the impact of TBI on the family system and communication. Her interest is in traumatic brain injury and resultant cognitive-communication disorders emphasizing home, community and school reintegration for people with TBI, including school age through college levels.

  6. 2005 Prize Recipient Marilyn Price Spivack, Advocate: Following her daughter’s TBI, Marilyn along with her husband Marty and a group of other similarly affected families she founded and then acted as first president of the National Head Injury Foundation, now known as the Brain Injury Association.

  7. 2006 Prize Recipient Professor Barbara Wilson, OBE: A highly sought-after lecturer throughout the world particularly in Europe, North and South America, Australia and Hong Kong, in 1984 Dr. Wilson was awarded The May Davidson award for outstanding contributions to Clinical Psychology. In 1998 she was awarded an O.B.E. in the Queen’s New Years Honours List for services to medical rehabilitation.

  8. 2007 Prize Recipient John Corrigan, PhD: founder and Director of the Ohio Valley Center for Brain Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation. Dr. Corrigan has made contributions to the field of brain injury rehabilitation in three areas: (1) the prevalence and treatment of substance abuse as a co-occurring complication; (2) the measurement and management of agitation occurring during the acute phase of recovery; and (3) measurement of outcomes from rehabilitation.

  9. 2008 Prize Recipient John Whyte, MD, PhD:Director, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (MRRI); Director Attention Research Laboratory, MRRI; Director of Brain Injury Research and Director of the Responsiveness Program, Jerome M and Sylvan Drucker Brain Injury Center, Moss Rehab; Staff Physiatrist, Einstein Practice Plan Inc.. Professor Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Adjunct Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Temple University School of Medicine.

  10. The Robert L. Moody Prizefor Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury Research and RehabilitationIs presented annually at the Galveston Brain Injury Conference hosted by the University of Texas Medical BranchandThe Translational Learning Center at Galveston

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