Brain Injury Program Manager
Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals
Lincoln, Nebraska
Dr. Brooke Murtaugh is a graduate of Wayne State College in Wayne, NE where she received her bachelor’s in Health Science. She then received her Clinical Doctorate in Occupational Therapy from Creighton University in 2004. She began working as an occupational therapist at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals in 2006. She has practiced in inpatient brain injury rehabilitation for fifteen years. Brooke serves as Madonna’s brain injury and disorders of consciousness program manager and continues to practice as a clinician, primarily consulting on and treating the DOC population. She received her national certification as a Brain Injury Specialist in 2009 and Brain Injury National Specialist Trainer from the Brain Injury Association of America in 2016. Brooke is responsible for coordinating the care and rehabilitation programs serving Madonna’s brain injury population across the continuum of care at both the Lincoln and Omaha Nebraska campuses. Dr. Murtaugh is a member of the Disorders of Consciousness Task Force and Brain Injury Special Interest Group through the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the International Brain Injury Association DoC Special Interest Group. She is also the co-chair of the International Campaign to Cure Coma Care of the Coma Patient Work Group in partnership with the Neurocritical Care Society and sits on the Coma Campaign’s Scientific Steering Committee. She has presented numerous presentations and clinical training on brain injury rehabilitation and DoC care throughout the Midwest region, nationally and to clinicians throughout the brain injury continuum of care.
Saturday, October 22, 2022
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM ET
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Saturday, October 22, 2022
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM ET
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.