Traumatic Brain Injury and Inpatient Medical Rehabilitation

In this episode, we talk about traumatic brain injury and inpatient medical rehabilitation. Each year about 1.5 million Americans sustain a TBI, 230,000 people are hospitalized and 80,000 to 90,000 people experience the onset of long-term disability due to a TBI. Our guests are Brent Masel, MD, executive vice president for medical affairs with the Centre for Neuroskills, and a clinical professor of neurology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and a member of the board of the North American Brain Injury Society and the Brain Injury Association of America; and Gary Seale, PhD, LPA, LCDC, regional director of clinical services at the Centre for Neuro Skills Houston, and a researcher and psychologist specializing in brain injury, stroke, and substance misuse, and a panel member on BIAA’s TBI Guidelines Project. Cohosts: Patricia Sullivan, director of communications for the American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association and Robert Krug, MD, immediate past chairman of the AMRPA Board and Vice President of Medical Affairs for the Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital Advisory Group.