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The People Behind the Collaborative
Military Brain Health Collaborative
There is still no way to diagnose blast-related brain injury in a living person, and no FDA-approved treatment for it. The Military Brain Health Collaborative was established to close the gap between the science and the lived experience of our warfighters and veterans.
Each group below plays a distinct role in one shared mission.
Meet the people leading this work forward, together:
Military Brain Health Collaborative Working Group
The Working Group is the Collaborative’s medical and scientific engine. Bringing together leading international brain health researchers and clinicians, it developed the research roadmap guiding our work and identifies the most promising proposals from across the field.
Special Operations Forces Leadership Council
The Special Operations Forces Leadership Council is the voice of lived experience within the Collaborative. Its more than a dozen members, many of whom continue to serve on active duty, help define the real-world problems the research must solve and keep the work grounded in what matters most to warfighters. To protect their security, members’ names are not published.
Strategic Advisors
Our Strategic Advisors bring expertise from academic medicine, scientific research, military health, and industry, offering perspectives that inform the Collaborative's work.
- Rocco Armonda
Georgetown University Hospital - Jennifer Belding
Henry M. Jackson Foundation - Kristen Dams-O'Connor
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - Josh Duckworth
Uniformed Services University; Madigan Army Medical Center - Jordan Grafman
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab - Dallas Hack
U.S. Army (Ret.) - Judy Lee-Greenhill
Greenhill Anti-Ballistics Corporation - Eric Nauman
University of Cincinnati - Laura Ngwenya
University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience Institute - Mary Jo Pugh
University of Utah School of Medicine - Tonia Rex
Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Jared Rowland
Wake Forest University School of Medicine - Greg Stewart
Tulane University School of Medicine - Tom Talavage
University of Cincinnati - Lilit Yeghiazarian
University of Cincinnati