2007 Moody Prize Recipient

John D. Corrigan, PhD

John D. Corrigan, PhD, is the founder and Director of the Ohio Valley Center for Brain Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation, which serves as an umbrella for research and program development related to traumatic brain injury in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The Center has attracted almost $15 million in grants since its creation in 1992. Most notably, the Center developed the Ohio Regional Traumatic Brain Injury Model System, one of 16 centers funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research to conduct longitudinal research on outcomes from traumatic brain injury. Dr. Corrigan has served as the Principal Investigator of this grant throughout its 10 years of funding.

Prior to his selection for the 2007 Robert L. Moody Prize, John has received local and national awards for his service and research in the field, including the Brain Injury Association of America’s William Fields Caveness Award. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and was elected to the inaugural “class” of Fellows in the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM). The American Psychological Association Division of Rehabilitation Psychology has honored him with its Leonard Diller Lecture, 1999 Distinguished Service Award and Roger Barker Distinguished Research Career Award. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Rehabilitation Psychology (Division 22) and Counseling Psychology (Division 17). Dr. Corrigan is a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology in Rehabilitation Psychology.

Research

Dr. Corrigan has made important contributions to the field of brain injury rehabilitation in three areas: (1) the prevalence and treatment of substance abuse as a co-occurring complication; (2) the measurement and management of agitation occurring during the acute phase of recovery; and (3) measurement of outcomes from rehabilitation.

Substance abuse and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Corrigan’s 1995 literature review “Substance abuse as a mediating factor in outcome from traumatic brain injury was a seminal paper pointing to the prevalence and effects of substance use disorders among adolescents and adults receiving rehabilitation for traumatic brain injury. Dr. Corrigan has been instrumental in bringing attention to the prevalence and effects of substance abuse among persons with traumatic brain injury. He has conducted quasi-experimental and randomized clinical trials on treatment interventions for substance abuse in this population. He has provided training and consultation internationally on the nature, extent, and treatment of this condition. He is currently developing diagnostic and treatment techniques for early intervention in acute hospital and rehabilitation settings, and collaborating with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop a standardized method of identifying traumatic brain injury in at-risk populations.

Agitation in the acute phase of recovery. Dr. Corrigan developed the Agitated Behavior Scale (ABS) to provide objective clinical and research data on agitation in persons with traumatic brain injury emerging from coma. The ABS is utilized widely in brain injury rehabilitation, and has been adopted in research on agitation among persons with dementia as well as those experiencing psychiatric crises. Research conducted with colleagues at Ohio State showing that improvement in cognition preceded improvement in agitation lead to changes in the use of medications with sedating side. This group also was able to identify the source of previous findings that agitation had a negative prognosis for long-term behavioral outcomes.

Measurement of rehabilitation outcomes. A third area of research contribution has addressed outcome measures used in rehabilitation. He has contributed to the development and/or validation of the Functional Independence Measure (FIM), Community Integration Questionnaire (CIQ), and Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS). He has proposed a theoretical framework for conceptualizing rehabilitation outcomes that was used in the development of a new approach to measurement of the World Health Organization’s concept of “participation”. Dr. Corrigan has also lead research addressing the generalizability of the TBI Model Systems National Dataset.

2006 Moody Prize Recipient

Barbara A. Wilson

Dr. Barbara Wilson qualified as a clinical psychologist in 1977 and since 1979 she has worked in Brain Injury Rehabilitation, first at Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre in Oxford, then at Charing Cross Hospital, London and at The University of Southampton Medical School. Since 1990, she has been a senior scientist at The Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. In 1996, Wilson established The Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Ely. This is a partnership between Lifespan NHS Trust (now Fenland and East Cambridgeshire Trust) and The Medical Research Council. She is director of research at this centre and is also visiting Professor of Rehabilitation Studies at the University of Southampton.

She has held several grants to look at new assessment and treatment procedures for people with non-progressive brain injury, has published 16 books, 8 widely used neuropsychological tests, and over 250 journal articles and chapters mostly on rehabilitation and is currently is editor-in-chief of the Journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. Barbara sits on several national committees in the UK and has been on the governing board of The International Neuropsychological Society. She is currently president of The International Neuropsychological Society and will remain in this position until February 2007.

A highly sought-after lecturer throughout the world particularly in Europe, North and South America, Australia and Hong Kong, in 1984 Dr. Wilson was awarded The May Davidson award for outstanding contributions to Clinical Psychology. In 1998 she was awarded an O.B.E. in the Queen’s New Years Honours List for services to medical rehabilitation and in 2000 she was awarded a distinguished scientist award from the British Psychological Society. In 2002 Barbara was awarded the “Professional of the Year” award by The Encephalitis Support Group and in 2003 she won The British Psychological Society’s annual book of the year award for her book “Case Studies in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation”. She is a Fellow of The British Psychological Society, The Academy of Medical Sciences and The Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and in 2004 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from The University of East Anglia.

2005 Moody Prize Recipient

Marilyn Price Spivack

Marylyn Spivack's involvement in traumatic brain injury (TBI) began through a personal journey after the injury of her daughter, Deborah Lee Price, in March of 1975. Resources, support and expertise in the treatment and rehabilitation of TBI survivors were virtually non-existent at that time. In 1980 along with her husband Marty and a group of other similarly affected families and professionals, Mrs. Spivack founded and acted as first president of the National Head Injury Foundation, now known as the Brain Injury Association.

Since 1980, Mrs. Spivack has become an advocate for the special needs of TBI survivors as well as raising awareness in safety issues focusing on prevention of head injuries. She has given numerous lectures for hospital, university, and national association and organization conferences and seminars across the U.S. and Canada. She has presented TBI as a national health issue to the media including a recent segment on NBC News and for the American Medical Association program, Medical Rounds. She has been featured in a made-for-TV documentary aired on Public Television, The Journey Back, and on a feature video, If Only, to raise awareness on safety belt use in the prevention of head injuries. In 1991 Mrs. Spivack was featured on CNN's special series focusing on Brain Injury in America, entitled It was an Accident.

In recognition of her contributions to the field of rehabilitation, Mrs. Spivack has received numerous awards. Most recently, she was recognized by President George W. Bush for outstanding Public Service for creating opportunities in employment for people with traumatic brain injury. The Award was given by the President's Committee for Employment of People with Disabilities.

2004 Honoree

Roberta DePompei, Ph.D., CCC-SP/A

One of Dr. DePompei’s major areas of interest is in traumatic brain injury (TBI) and resultant cognitive-communication disorders. She has developed support groups, co-established a TBI Collaborative in the Akron area that serves as a model for collaboratives nationally, and conducted research on the impact of TBI on the family system and communication. Home, community and school reintegration for people with TBI, including school age through college levels, has also been researched. She has conducted numerous workshops and presented papers on these topics at international, national, state, and local conferences.

Dr. DePompei has also published on the topic of acquired brain injury and the family and brain injury reintegration to school in journals such as Topics in Language Disorders, Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, and American Journal of Family Therapy. She and has guest edited several issues on traumatic brain injury in Topics in Language Disorders and the Journal of Head Traumatic Rehabilitation. She has published over 20 chapters in books and she is the co-author of a book entitled Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Proactive Approaches to Assessment and Intervention (2nd ed published 2003).

Dr DePompei is involved with research grants on concussion of athletes and on the use of assistive technology for children and adolescents with mental retardation or traumatic brain injury. Dr. DePompei has served on the board of the Ohio Brain Injury Association and is co-chair of the Brain Injury Association of America’s (BIAA) Task Force on Children and Adolescents. She was awarded the prestigious Sheldon Berrol, M.D. Clinical Service award by BIAA in July, 2002. She has also served as chair of the Ohio Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and on the State of Ohio’s Brain Injury Advisory Committee.

2002 Honoree

Jeffrey Kreutzer, Ph.D., A.B.P.P.

Jeffrey S. Kreutzer is a Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Medical College with appointments in the Departments of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R), Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. Within the Department of PM&R, he serves as Director of Rehabilitation Psychology and Neuropsychology and serves as Vice Chairman of the Research Division.

With an active clinical practice, Dr. Kreutzer coordinates the delivery of psychological and neuropsychological services to both inpatients and outpatients who have a wide variety of neurological disabilities. Dr. Kreutzer’s practice emphasizes holistic rehabilitation, self-advocacy, long-term needs, psychotherapy, helping persons return to work, and family intervention.

As an active consumer advocate, Dr. Kreutzer was a founding member of the Virginia Head Injury Foundation and has many years, served on the Board of Directors for both the Richmond area and Virginia Head Injury Foundation (VHIF). Dr. Kreutzer, was a recipient of the VHIF Timmy Tiernan Award (1986), and a recipient of Certificates of Appreciation from the Richmond and Massachusetts Head Injury Foundations. In November 1994 he was given the Sheldon Berrol Clinical Service Award by the National Head Injury Foundation.

Dr. Kreutzer has co-authored more than 115 peer-reviewed publications, most in the area of traumatic brain injury and rehabilitation, is co-Editor-In-Chief of the journals: Brain Injury and NeuroRehabilitation, he has also served as co-editor or author of twelve books focused on vocational rehabilitation, community reintegration, behavior management, and cognitive rehabilitation.

Mitchell Rosenthal, Ph.D, ABPP

Mitchell Rosenthal was the Vice President for Research for the Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corporation. He was also Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. In addition, he served as Project Director of the TBI National Database Center, funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Dr. Rosenthal was elected as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and served as President of the Division of Rehabilitation Psychology in 1992. He served as a member of the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association and was President of the American Board of Rehabilitation Psychology and Treasurer of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including the first Sheldon Berrol, M.D. Clinical Service Award from the National Head Injury Foundation (now the Brain Injury Association) and the 1997 Roger Barker Distinguished Career Award from the American Psychological Association, Division of Rehabilitation Psychology. He was the founding co-editor of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation and the senior editor of the textbook, Rehabilitation of the Adult and Child with Traumatic Brain Injury (1999), now in its third edition. Dr. Rosenthal published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, books, and book chapters and delivered over 200 presentations at major national and international meetings, primarily related to brain injury rehabilitation.