Lighting the Path to TBI Recovery
Join us for our free webinar “Lighting the Path to TBI Recovery” featuring Dr. Elisabeth Wilde, PhD. from the University of Utah and Dr. Carrie Esopenko, PhD. from Mount Sinai Hospital.
This event will feature a Q&A session.
Learning Objectives
- Learn about the latest mechanisms, treatment methods and monitoring protocols for TBI and Concussion
- Get preliminary insights from the first PBM study of ex-athletes suffering from repetitive head injury (using transcranial and intranasal photobiomodulation)
- Discover preliminary unexpected performance outcomes in athletes from recent PBM research studies
Research Organizations
Dr. Elisabeth WildeHealth Research Scientist and Neurology Professor
Dr. Elisabeth Wilde is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Utah. She also holds an appointment as a Health Research Scientist at the VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System. Her research interests include the use 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 traumatic brain injury.
As a clinical neuropsychologist, she has an interest in brain-behavior relationships involving cognitive, neurological, and functional outcome and clinical trials in traumatic brain injury and associated comorbidities. For the last 20 years, she has worked with patients with traumatic brain injury and concussion across a spectrum of age, severity, and acuity, with particular interests in children and adolescents, athletes, and Veteran and Active Duty Service Members with concussion or traumatic brain injury.
Dr. Carrie Esopenko, Ph.D.Neurology Professor and Principal Investigator
Dr. Carrie Esopenko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion Center in the Department of Neurology at the University of Utah. Her research focuses examining the sub-acute, chronic, and long-term effects of brain injury and repetitive head impacts on cognitive, psychological, neural outcomes in athletes and trauma-exposed individuals.
She is the principal investigator of a National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke R01-funded multi-site IPV study and co-investigator on grants from the Department of Defense, National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Esopenko is the Lead Investigator of the ENIGMA IPV Working Group as well as co-lead of the ENIGMA IPV Global Knowledge Exchange Network. She is also the Co-Principal Investigator for Rutgers University’s involvement in the Ivy League/Big Ten Epidemiology of Concussion Study.