Leadership
Tina M Trudel, PhD
Tina M Trudel, PhD is President/COO of Lakeview Healthcare Systems, Inc, a national leader in brain injury rehabilitation and neurobehavioral treatment for civilians and service members. She provides oversight of Lakeview’s hospital, residential and community-integrated programs nationwide, including as Principal Investigator/Site Director of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center at Virginia NeuroCare.
Dr Trudel chairs the Brain Injury Long Term Issues Task Force of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, the Ethics Committee of the Brain Injury Association of America, is a board member of the North American Brain Injury Society, a founding board member of the Blast Injury Institute, and a reviewer for the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research TBI Model Systems. Her research involvement include as Senior Research Associate for the Institute of Matching Person and Technology and Research Chair of the JBS International TBI Resource Optimization Center.
Dr Trudel is Senior Partner of Northeast Evaluation Specialists of Dover, NH, a clinician group providing IME, FCE and neuropsychological services. She served on the governing board of the American Academy for Certification of Brain Injury Specialists (AACBIS) and as postdoctoral supervisor in the Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School from 2000-2005. Dr Trudel is presently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
She has numerous publications and presentations in the areas of brain injury, rehabilitation, neuropsychology, aging and neurobehavioral treatment. Dr Trudel was the recipient of the Brain Injury Association of America’s 2008 Founder’s Award for her work and advocacy in the field of brain injury rehabilitation.
F Don Nidiffer, PhD
Dr Nidiffer was trained as a behavioral psychologist at Johns Hopkins Medical School before working full time in the Dept of Pediatrics at the University of Virginia Medical School for 23 years.
He is a Certified Brain Injury Trainer and holds Diplomate status in the American Board of Medical Psychotherapists and Psychometricians as well as the International Academy of Behavioral Medicine, Counseling, and Psychotherapy.
Dr Nidiffer currently holds an appointment at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Psychiatric Medicine and serves as the Executive Director of Virginia NeuroCare, Inc in Charlottesville, VA, a neurorehabilitation center providing services to military personnel who have brain injuries.
Jeffrey T Barth, PhD
Dr Barth presently holds the position of Professor and Co-Director of the Neurocognitive Assessment Laboratory, and Section Head, Neurocognitive Studies in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, with a joint appointment in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Virginia school of Medicine.
He is also one of the Founders and Co-Director of the UVA Brain Injury and Sports Concussion Institute, and he is the Senior Scientist for Virginia NeuroCare of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center. He holds the diplomate certification from the American Board of Professional Psychology and the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the National Academy of Neuropsychology and is past president of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, past president of the Virginia Psychological Association, and holds the emeritus distinction of the Virginia Psychological Foundation.
He is on the editorial board of 10 scientific journals, has co-authored or edited three books (including The Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery: Guide to Interpretation and Clinical Application; and Traumatic Brain Injury in Sports: An International Neuropsychological Perspective), and is an author of over 200 scholarly articles and book chapters.
In 1992 he was awarded the John Edward Fowler Professorship in Clinical Psychology, an endowed chair in the Eminent Scholars Program. He is the recipient of the National Academy of Neuropsychology’s 2005 Distinguished Neuropsychologist Award, for lifetime achievements in the field of Neuropsychology, and in 2006, he received the Virginia Academy of Clinical Psychology’s Distinguished Scientific Contributions in Clinical Psychology Award.
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