... Biographies of Speakers and Planning Committee Members...

... Center to develop mild TBI (concussion) management guidelines for returning troops. He earned his M.D. and M.P.H. from the University of Rochester School of Medicine/Dentistry....

... of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he leads the TBI Clinical Research Initiative. His research interests are focused on understanding the molecular, cellular, and tissue-level mechanisms of neuronal injury and neuroregeneration, with the goal of developing neuroprotective and ... therapies. Dr. Diaz-Arrastia received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Baylor College of Medicine and completed postgraduate training at Harvard and Columbia. Prior to coming to Penn, he served on the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern, the Uniformed Services University of the Health ... , and the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Dr. Diaz-Arrastia has published more than 250 primary research papers, as well as more than 40 invited reviews and book chapters. He ...

... the scientific advisory boards or as a scientific advisor to companies including BrainBox Solutions, NovaSignal, NeurAegis, MesoScale Discoveries, and Ischemix, Inc., and he has also served on several national committees related to traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, and dementia, convened by the ... Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Veterans Administration, and the National Academy of Medicine....

... Jessica Gill, Ph.D., R.N., is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Trauma Recovery Biomarkers at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Dr. Gill has spent decades investigating differential responses in military personnel, athletes, and other patients that have experienced ... stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and postconcussive syndrome, and to develop treatments. After earning her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, she went to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to complete a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Nursing Research ...

... the scientific program manager for the brain injury portfolio at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which includes traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke. Dr. Hoffman received his doctoral degree in behavioral and molecular neuroscience at Rutgers University in 1995 and completed his ... with VA, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University. Dr. Hoffman was also faculty in both the graduate and undergraduate neuroscience programs at Emory University, where he codeveloped and directed a multidisciplinary course on neurotrauma. He was ... the research director for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Dr. Hoffman has more than 24 years of experience and has authored more than 45 peer-reviewed publications in translational research on neuroprotection and recovery of function after brain injury. He has ... , animal models of TBI, development of animal rehabilitation models, rodent brain ischemia models, translational drug development for neuroprotection, and clinical neurorehabilitation research....

... Narayan Iyer, Ph.D., is a chief for burn medical countermeasures at the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the Department of Health and Human ... . Dr. Iyer has professional experience in both the biotechnology industry and the U.S. government, including providing strategic direction to the burn program toward development and deployment of medical countermeasures (MCMs) ... burns and blast injuries. His program focuses on aligning the development of new products toward market sustainability and adopting new products into routine clinical care to generate immediate impact. Products under development in the burn program specifically address ... challenges in current routine burn- and blast-injury care and increase in overall long-term national preparedness for mitigating consequences from mass casualty incidents with large cases of burn and blast ... . Dr. Iyer works closely with other ASPR offices, the Strategic National Stockpile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration and focuses on MCMs to support integration and decisions related to burn and trauma products for use and deployment. He also ... under development have a meaningful impact. Prior to joining the U.S. government, Dr. Iyer worked as a senior development scientist at Corning, Inc., and in technical operations in the biotech industry. Dr. Iyer received his doctoral degree in molecular microbiology working as a United Nations ... , Scientific and Cultural Organization fellow at Biological Research Center in Szeged, Hungary, from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India....

... Research; and professor of pediatrics, anesthesiology, bioengineering and clinical and translational science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. As the Safar Center director for 25 years, he has a record of leading a translational and multidepartmental team studying traumatic and ...

... Investigator Award from the American College of Critical Care Medicine in 2007, was named one of the inaugural Masters of Critical Care Medicine, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Critical Care Medicine in 2017....

... Grand Challenge at the Weill Institute, University of Michigan. He received his medical and emergency medicine education at Northwestern University School of Medicine, and doctoral training in clinical investigation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health with election into Phi Beta ...

... Allison Kumar founded Arina Consulting in 2018 after working 10 years at the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). During her time at FDA, she spent 5 years as a senior program manager in the Center Director’s Office and 5 years as a ... premarket reviewer in the Office of Device Evaluation. In her senior program manager role, Ms. Kumar developed collaborations and worked as a liaison between medical device developers working in government agencies, the Department of Defense, academia, industry. and the CDRH ... to market. Kumar holds a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Virginia Tech, a graduate certificate in biohazardous threat agents and emerging infectious diseases from Georgetown University and is a graduate of...

... the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s National Preparedness Leadership Institute....

... Lazarus, Ph.D., serves as the neuroscientist for Staying Sharp, an AARP program offering content about brain health including articles, recipes, and activities. Dr. Lazarus received her Ph.D. degree at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), where her work investigated ... -based biomarkers and neuroimmunological changes following traumatic brain injury. Following her time at USUHS, she joined the FlyLight Lab at Howard Hughes Medical ... ’s Janelia Research Campus, focusing on Drosophila-based brain-mapping work and novel methods in immunofluorescent tagging/confocal microscopy. Prior to joining AARP in 2019, Dr. Lazarus served as the research portfolio manager ... the Defense Health Agency’s Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, now called the TBI Center of Excellence. Dr. Lazarus has also volunteered for several years as a Grand Award Judge in ... and Molecular Biology for the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair, formerly known as the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair....

... Geoffrey Manley, M.D., Ph.D., is the chief of neurosurgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) and is professor and vice chairman of neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Manley is an internationally recognized expert in neurotrauma. In ... to a robust clinical practice at ZSFG and the Greater Bay Area’s level 1 trauma center, he coordinates and leads national and international clinical research efforts in the study of the short- and long-term effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI). With a nationwide team of ... . The TRACK-TBI studies have created a modern precision medicine information commons for TBI that integrates clinical, imaging, proteomic, genomic, and outcome biomarkers to drive the development of a new TBI disease classification system, which could revolutionize diagnosis, direct patient-specific ... , and improve outcomes....

... scientist at GE Research. Recently, he has led the clinical research study part of the GE/NFL Head Health Initiative, a partnership between GE and the National Football League on traumatic brain injury. He is currently co-PI on the GE-MIT performing team for DARPA Measuring Biological Aptitude, ... of human performance. Dr. Marinelli also serves on the scientific advisory board of the ALS Finding a Cure foundation. He joined GE Research in 2005 and has had individual contributor, managerial, and busi-...

... Technologies as a postdoctoral member of the technical staff in the theoretical physics group, where he worked on problems in information theory and wireless telecommunications....

... Christina Master, M.D., FAAP, CAQSM, FACSM, is a professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and a pediatric and adolescent primary care sports medicine specialist, as well as an academic general pediatrician, at the Children’s ... her undergraduate studies at Princeton University with an A.B. in molecular biology and graduated summa cum laude from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. She completed pediatric residency training with an additional year as chief resident at CHOP where she ...

... Beth McQuiston, M.D., RD, is a neurologist, registered dietitian, and medical director for Abbott’s neuroscience diagnostics business. She completed her medical training at University of Chicago, Rush University ... Center, and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She actively participates in the evaluation of several neuroscience related biomarkers and technologies to be used in the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of disease. One of her current areas of focus includes the research and ...

... Dr. McQuiston has participated in the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative and served on the executive board for the Center for Nutrition Learning and Memory. In 2014, Abbott and the Department of Defense announced a ... on blood-based biomarker development. She has a number of traumatic brain injury-related patents, publications, and invited presentations. Dr. McQuiston leads a global neuroscience team at Abbott focused on blood tests to help evaluate and treat brain injury....

... David Okonkwo, M.D., Ph.D., is professor of neurological surgery and director of the Neurotrauma Clinical Trials Center at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also director of Neurotrauma and the Scoliosis and Spinal ... Program at UPMC Presbyterian. Dr. Okonkwo is past chair of the AANS/CNS Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care. In addition, Dr. Okonkwo is team neurosurgeon for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He completed his medical and doctoral education through the ... University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery in 2006, following completion of neurosurgical residency at the University of Virginia and a fellowship at Auckland Public Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand. He has additional specialized training in scoliosis surgery. Dr. Okonkwo’s ... interests are traumatic injuries to the brain and spine as well as scoliosis and spinal deformity. His research endeavors involve developing biomarkers, advanced neuroimaging modalities and novel therapeutic interventions for ... and spinal cord injury. Dr. Okonkwo is a principal investigator of a national clinical research network (TRACK-TBI) to advance the understanding and treatment of traumatic brain injury and a principal investigator of ongoing clinical studies in neurotrauma in Pittsburgh. He is a member of the ... Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and the National and International Neurotrauma Societies....

... Corinne Peek-Asa, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the vice chancellor for research and professor with distinction of epidemiology at UC San Diego. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and served as a member of ... National Academies Committee on Accelerating Progress in Traumatic Brain Injury and Care and the Global Violence Forum. Prior to joining UC San Diego, she was the associate dean for research for the University of Iowa College of Public Health ... the William G. Battershell Distinguished Professor. Dr. Peek-Asa is a leading epidemiologist in the area of traumatic injury and violence prevention. Her work has addressed the full spectrum of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) from surveillance to prevention among a variety of ...

... of Health’s Fogarty International Center and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke projects that have established prospective TBI registries in four countries. She has conducted research on data systems to identify TBI, the ... of gender on TBI outcomes, predictors of outcomes based on injury type and severity, and the impact of trauma systems on TBI patients reaching definitive care. She has evaluated numerous TBI prevention strategies such as motorcycle helmet ...

... CAPT Travis Polk, M.D., FACS, is Director of the Combat Casualty Care Research Program, Department of Defense, and an assistant professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University. He is board certified in general surgery with an added qualification in ... critical care. He is the Navy State Chair for the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, Chair of the Navy Trauma Clinical Community, and represents the Navy on the Defense Committee on Surgical Combat Casualty Care. His academic and research interests include mentoring, surgical ... , and alternative devices for the treatment of tension pneumothorax. CAPT Polk’s personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal (four awards), the ... Commendation Medal (two awards), and Surface Warfare Medical Department Officer qualification device. CAPT Polk graduated from Norwich University with a bachelor of science in nursing ... Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Scholarship program in 1997. He attended the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences on active duty and graduated with a doctor of medicine in 2001....

... brain injury and concussion. Dr. Prichep came to BrainScope from a significant academic tenure as a neuroscientist at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine where she was the director of the Brain Research Laboratories (BRL) and professor of psychiatry. The BrainScope platform has at its core ...

... to the company’s patent portfolio. In 2019 she was elected as a Fellow to the National Academy of Inventors, having been nominated by NYU School of Medicine....

... of research at the Clinical Research Center at Norristown State Psychiatric Hospital. While in Philadelphia, he was a candidate at the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis and practiced under supervision as a psychotherapist/psychoanalyst at the Philadelphia Consultation Center. He was also a service ...

... Martin Schreiber, M.D., is a professor of surgery; chief of the Division of Trauma, Critical Care, and Acute Care Surgery; and director of the Donald D. Trunkey Center for Civilian and Combat Casualty Care at Oregon Health and Science University. He is adjunct professor of ... of the Health Sciences. He is also a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. Dr. Schreiber’s training includes significant military instruction and practice, including direct clinical experience as a military surgeon in Afghanistan. Dr. Schreiber has served as director of the Joint Theater Trauma ... for Iraq and Afghanistan. He also serves as a subject matter expert on several Department of Defense committees, including the Committee on Surgical Combat ... Care (since 2016); the Tactical Combat Casualty Care Subject Matter Expert Panel (since 2018); and, as chairman, the Committee on Surgical Combat Casualty Care (since 2019). Dr. Schreiber is head of the Trauma Research Laboratory. He has been ... the lifetime achievement award in trauma resuscitation science by the American Heart Association, and the Asmund S. Laerdal Memorial Award for extensive involvement in resuscitation research and publishing from the Society of Critical Care Medicine....

... Carol Taylor-Burds, Ph.D., is a program director in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Division of Translational Research for the NINDS Biomarker Program and a scientific project manager for the Blueprint ... Program. She obtained her Ph.D. in biology from the University of Vermont and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in the NINDS intramural program. From there, she joined the extramural ... Research. While at NINDS she has been involved in a variety of efforts for traumatic brain injury including a preclinical biomarker consortium and programmatic oversight of the Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research (FITBIR) Informatics System....

... scientist at the VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System. Dr. Wilde is currently the director of the Neuroimaging Core for the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs cofunded Long-term Impact of Military-relevant Brain Injury Consortium (LIMBIC)/Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium (CENC) ... Core and has been actively involved in the International Common Data Elements (CDE) initiative and coleads the Enhancing Neuroimaging Genetics Meta-analysis (ENIGMA) Working Group for traumatic brain injury (TBI). Her research interests include the ... of advanced forms of neuroimaging to enhance diagnosis and prognosis, monitor recovery and neurodegeneration, evaluate the efficacy of therapeutic intervention, and elucidate aspects of neuroplasticity in TBI. She has participated in more ... 40 federally funded clinical projects in TBI, and has authored more than 140 peer-reviewed publications. She earned her Ph.D. from Brigham Young University in clinical psychology....

... Alan H. B. Wu, Ph.D., is chief of the Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology Laboratories at San Francisco General Hospital. He is also a professor of laboratory medicine and chief of the Clinical Pharmacogenomics ... , San Francisco. Dr. Wu’s research focuses on “personalized therapeutics,” meaning the use of biomarkers to determine the proper selection and dosing of drugs to maximize efficacy and minimize adverse reactions. His clinical and research interests also include pharmacogenomics and research ... validating novel protein markers for cardiovascular diseases. Dr. Wu earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and performed his postdoctoral fellowship in clinical chemistry and toxicological chemistry at the Hartford Hospital....