Andrew Dennison

I am the medical director of acquired brain injury rehabilitation at Shepherd Center, in Atlanta, Georgia. In this capacity I provide medical rehabilitation expertise and guidance for the entire scope of acquired brain injury programming at Shepherd Center, including our services in many environments: inpatient, outpatient, day program, residential, concussion clinic, and our dedicated military program. My regular daily focus is on provision on care to my inpatient teams caring for a wide variety of acquired brain injury and stroke conditions with severities ranging from patients with disorders of consciousness and locked-in syndrome to less severely injured patients with typical impairments such at hemiparesis, aphasia, and behavioral disturbance. I have been engaged in previous and ongoing research studies involving disorders of consciousness, stroke rehabilitation, and brain injury. I have initiated multiple programmatic improvement projects through Shepherd, including evidence-informed dedicated stroke team formation, implementation of vision rehabilitation with prism utilization and formalized measures, standardization of team rounding and communication, and patient-family centered withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment guidelines among many others. During my time as medical director of brain injury medicine at Shepherd, I was instrumental in developing new programming for the mild TBI and concussion population through resource recruitment and planning. In addition to my clinical work at Shepherd and support of the Georgia TBI Model Systems Grant at Shepherd as medical director, I am a surveyor for CARF International, I am a founding ad active member of the Georgia RSVP charity clinic, and I have been a Governor-appointed Commissioner for over 15 years on the Georgia Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Commission.