Associate Professor, Director of Brain Injury Research Center
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York
– United States
Kristen Dams-O’Connor, Ph.D. is Director of the Brain Injury Research Center of Mount Sinai and Associate Professor in the Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at Mount Sinai Medical Center, and a predoctoral internship in neurorehabilitation at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University Medical Center. She received her Ph.D. from the University at Albany. She has published over 60 peer-reviewed manuscripts and chapters on traumatic brain injury treatments and outcomes, and has presented her research internationally. Her primary areas of clinical and research expertise are in neuropsychological assessment, neurobehavioral interventions for individuals with neurological diseases, long-term outcomes after brain injury, and characterizing clinicopathological signatures of TBI. Current projects focus on applying modern psychometric and statistical techniques to measure individual differences in trajectories of change over time among survivors of TBI and identifying risk and protective factors for post-TBI neurodegeneration. Her research is currently supported by federal grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Disability Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research, Department of Defense, and Patient Reported Outcomes Research Institute. She is also Director of Research in the Mount Sinai Injury Control Research Center and Project Director of the New York Traumatic Brain Injury Model System.
Wednesday, November 6
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Wednesday, November 6
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM