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Clinical Neuropsychologist
Franciscan Health
McCordsville, Indiana
I am a Clinical Neuropsychologist at Franciscan Health Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana. My role primarily involves engagement in clinical activities and also includes, program development, and research activities. Clinical activities involve providing neuropsychological evaluations to individuals with brain injury and those with known or suspected neurological disease processes. I am also highly involved in the delivery of evidenced-based psychological and cognitive rehabilitation interventions. I work with individuals with brain injury as well as their caregivers and families to help them in adjusting to the effects of their injury, increasing their adaptive coping abilities, and successfully re-integrating back into the community. On-going program development and program evaluation / quality assurance are an integral component of the Comprehensive Outpatient Concussion Rehabilitation program and as such, I along with other team members play a role in this process. Additional program development experiences have involved the re-design of a 6-session family psychoeducational series for family members and caregivers of individuals with brain injury at the RHI inpatient rehabilitation facility. In previous employment at the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana, Dr. Samantha Backhaus and I co-developed a cognitive-behavioral coping skills group intervention for individuals with brain injury and their caregivers. The co-development of the coping skills group, titled Brain Injury Coping Skills (BICS), and subsequent randomized controlled research trials studying the efficacy of the group have been supported through grant funding from the RHI Foundation and Indiana Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Fund Research Grant (PI: Samantha Backhaus; 1/1/09 to 12/31/10). Dr. Backhaus and I have published the findings of two RCTs on the BICS group and have also published a treatment manual. We have presented the findings of the BICS research trials at several national and international conferences and trained professionals around the country in the facilitation of the manualized BICS treatment. Additional research experience includes participation as a co-investigator on a RTC investigating the efficacy of a small group treatment aimed at improving adjustment and marital relationships in couples after one of them experience a brain injury. My role in this study consisted primarily of co-facilitation of the treatment intervention. I also served as site coordinator in a multi-centered trial of Generalizing Problem Solving Strategies to Everyday Environments Following Traumatic Brain Injury or “ProSolv” project, funded by the National Institute on Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research. The lead site on that project was the Brain Injury Research and Training at the University of Oregon. I have also served as co-investigator on Indiana Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Fund Research Grant (PI: Lance Trexler; 2016 to 2018), titled “Modeling Employment Outcome six months and one year post Resource Facilitation: A Clinical Decision Support System” and co-investigator on the TBI Model Systems grant at RHI investigating a novel treatment for improving emotional awareness following brain injury.
Thursday, October 22, 2020
1:15 PM – 1:45 PM EST
Thursday, October 22, 2020
3:30 PM – 3:47 PM EST