Personal Injury Law

The Sarah Jane Brain Foundation Launches International Mind, Brain, Health and Education Initiative

By Bruce Stern

Last week, The Sarah Jane Brain Foundation (SJBF) announced that its National Advisory Board has expanded to become an International Advisory Board with the addition of experts from across the globe.

The SJBF also announced the appointment of Dr. Stephanie Peabody, Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, as the Executive Director of its International Mind, Brain, Health, and Education Initiative (IMBHEI). The International MBHE Initiative will generate a comprehensive integration of neuroscience, developmental sciences, health, education and related disciplinary research. Its goal is to positively impact optimal achievement in academics and in life for all individuals. IMBHEI will develop best practices for health care clinicians, educators, public health professionals, policy makers, family/caregivers and other stakeholders, based in scientific research. This will be the foundation for creating and building the SJBF data repository of knowledge related to the brain.

The following experts in the fields of Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury (PABI) and neuroscience were announced as part of the newly formed International Advisory Board and the launch of its Global Initiative:

• Dr. Kurt Fischer, Bigelow Professor at Harvard's School of Graduate Education (HGSE) and Director of the Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) Program
• Dr. Jane Gillett, the Medical Director of the Hamilton Health Sciences ABI (Acquired Brain Injury) Program, as well as an Associate Professor at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada
• Dr. Shayne Ladek, who is the Team Physician for the Canadian Soccer Association and Federation Internationale de Football Association
• Dr. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, the Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, Professor in the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
• Nick Rushworth, the Executive Officer of Brain Injury Australia
• Dr. Lucia Willandino Braga the President and Dean of the SARAH Network of Rehabilitation Hospitals, located throughout Brazil
• Shaheen Usmani out of Jamia Millia Islamia (a Central University in India)

Full post as published by Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog on December 08, 2009 (boomark / email).