Veterans TBI Summit

Date: 26-Sep-2012
Capacity: Not Set (0% booked)

Details

Join us for the Brain Injury Association of Michigan's 2nd Annual Veterans TBI Summit. 

Lansing Center - Lansing
Lansing, Michigan

The purpose of this one-day summit is to provide state-of-the art information about combat brain injury programs, treatment and research, which will provide optimum outcomes for quality of life and military service reintegration opportunities. This summit is designed to benefit DoD, VA and private sector personnel engaged in management and care of troops exposed to potential TBI in field and post-deployment situations. Specific information will be provided about mild TBI, Neuro-cognitive Rehabilitation, the VA Assisted Living Program, TBI Blast Research, Academy of Certified Brain Injury Specialist (ACBIS) Certification Program, and an opportunity to hear from and talk directly to military personnel injured in combat and their families about how they were injured, the rehabilitation programs received, and the impact TBI has had upon their lives. 

For more information, contact Katie Knight

Keynote Speaker

Dr. James P. Kelly, a neurologist who is one of America’s top experts on treating concussions, serves as the Director of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE), which opened in 2010 and is located on the campus of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD.

While serving as the NICoE’s Director, Kelly is professor of neurosurgery and physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. His past positions include assistant dean for graduate medical education at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and the neurology residency program director at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Dr. Kelly has also served as director of the Brain Injury Program at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. He was the neurological consultant for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League and is consulted frequently by professional, elite amateur and youth athletes who have sustained concussions.

Kelly co-authored the sports concussion guidelines of the American Academy of Neurology and the Standardized Assessment of Concussion that is widely used in athletic and military settings. Additionally, for the past ten years, Dr. Kelly has been named as one of America's Top Doctors as well as being listed in several Who's Who publications.

In addition, Kelly is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and a diplomat in Neurology of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology; past-president of the Colorado Society of Clinical Neurologists; and a consulting neurologist to the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center – a component center of the Defense Centers of Excellence (DCoE). He was the first chairman of the Defense Health Board’s Traumatic Brain Injury External Advisory Subcommittee for Military Clinical Care, Research and Education.

After attaining a bachelor's and master's degree in psychology from Western Michigan University, Kelly graduated from medical school at Northwestern University and completed his neurology residency and behavioral neurology fellowship at the University of Colorado.