KEYNOTE SPEAKER- Yelena G. Bodien
Recovery and Long-term Outcome after Severe TBI and Disorders of Consciousness
Yelena Bodien, PhD is an assistant professor in the Division of Acute Care Surgery in the Department of Surgery and the Co-Director the Neuroimaging Core of the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction and Survivorship Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She has secondary appointments as an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Department of Neurological Surgery. As a clinical neuroscientist with expertise in brain disorders related to coma, consciousness and traumatic brain injury (TBI), Bodien's research focus is in applied standardized behavioral measures and advanced neuroimaging to improve the precision of the diagnosis and prognosis of severe brain injury. She is especially interested in understanding recovery from disorders of consciousness.
Bodien is active in several national and international initiatives to advance knowledge about brain disorders to improve patient care. She co-chairs the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Brain Injury Special Interest Group Disorders of Consciousness Task Force and the Neurocritical Care Society’s Curing Coma Campaign Prospective Studies workgroup. She also led the Curing Coma Campaign Outcomes and Endpoints Common Data Elements workgroup whose recommendations were recently published in the journal Neurocritical Care.
For more than a decade, Bodien has been an investigator and Outcomes Core member for the Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in TBI (TRACK-TBI) study, a multicenter, observational investigation sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
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