Conference Leadership

Conference Chair

Alan Weintraub, MD
NABIS Chairperson and 2026 Collaborative Conference Co-Chair

David Arciniegas, MD 
University of Colorado

Yelena G. Bodien, PhD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Lisa A. Brenner, PhD
University of Colorado

Meeryo Choe, MD
University of California Los Angeles

John D. Corrigan, PhD
The Ohio State University

Carrie Esopenko, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Steven Flanagan, MD
NYU Langone Health/Rusk Institute

Joseph T. Giacino, PhD
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Gerard Gioia, PhD
Children’s National Hospital

Christopher Giza, MD, PhD
UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital

Brian Greenwald, MD
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Flora Hammond, MD
Indiana University School of Medicine

Sidney R. Hinds II, MD, FAAN
COL(Retired), US Army
Major League Soccer Players Association

Ronald Hirschberg, MD
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

Ryan Holliday, PhD
Department of Veteran Affairs

Tamerah Hunt, PhD
Georgia Southern University

Grant Iverson, PhD
Harvard Medical School

Anthony Kline, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

John Leddy, MD
SUNY Buffalo

Jonathan Lifshitz, PhD
University of Michigan

Brent E. Masel, MD
Centre for Neuro Skills

René Mills, MS, CCC-SLP, CBIST
Craig Hospital

Martin M. Monti, PhD
University of California Los Angeles

Dawn Neumann, PhD
JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institution

Gregory O’ Shanick, MD
Center for Neurorehabilitation Services

Matthew Peters, MD
Johns Hopkins University

Nick Reed, PhD, OTR
University of Toronto/Rehabilitation Sciences Institute

Ronald Savage, EdD
NABIS Chair Emeritus

Caroline Schnakers, PhD
Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare

Heidi Schneider, BSN, CNRN
Restorative Health Services LLC

Beth Slomine, PhD
Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins

Katherine Snedaker, LCSW
Pink Concussion

Leanne Togher, PhD
University of Sydney

Eve M. Valera, PhD
Harvard Medical School

Alan Weintraub, MD
Neurotrauma Rehabilitation Associates/University of Colorado

Rick Willis
Brain Injury Association of America

Rebeccah Wolfkiel, MPP
National State Head Injury Administrators

Nathan D. Zasler, MD
Concussion Care Center of Virginia

Roger Zemek, MD
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario