2025.04.10– Won’t You Be My Neighbor? How Neighborhood Factors Affect Life After Traumatic Brain Injury (Recorded Webinar)

Aired live on April 10, 2025. Includes 1 ACBIS CEU. 

Note: A certificate of attendance/ACBIS CEU certificate will not be available with the purchase of this webinar after April 30, 2028.

The Social Model of Disability indicates that disability occurs as a result of the interaction between a person and their environment. Despite this, research to understand TBI as a chronic condition with resulting disability overwhelmingly focuses only on characteristics and factors within the person (such as demographics, cognitive ability, etc.), and not characteristics of the environments in which people live, work, and play. In this research webinar, Raj Kumar, Ph.D., and Shannon Juengst, Ph.D., CRC discuss how environmental factors, specifically characteristics of a person’s neighborhood, affect outcomes after TBI. They highlight findings from a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation on this topic and discuss how attending to these environmental factors is essential if we are to consider TBI from the lens of a Social Model – rather than a Medical Model – of disability.

Learning Objectives

• Identify factors in matching participants to appropriate post-acute brain injury rehabilitation programs based on participant characteristics and program-specific goals.
• Evaluate program-specific outcomes and evidence-based on quasi-experimental controlled studies.
• Assess the role and outcomes of supported community living programs in promoting long-term recovery for individuals with brain injury.

Professional rate includes 1 ACBIS CEU.

Speaker Bios

Raj G. Kumar, Ph.D. is a neuroepidemiologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His research program integrates the epidemiology of aging and neuroepidemiology with advanced statistical methods to understand the drivers of long-term consequences of TBI. 

Shannon B. Juengst, Ph.D., CRC is a Senior Scientist and Clinical Investigator in the Brain Injury Research Center at TIRR Memorial Hermann and an Adjunct Associate Professor of PM&R at UT Health Sciences Center at Houston. Her work aims to improve the lives of individuals with disabilities related to traumatic brain injury through the development and implementation of effective methods for monitoring emotional and behavioral problems and evidence-based behavioral health interventions to equip and empower persons with TBI and their care partners to independently manage behavioral, cognitive, and emotional difficulties across the continuum of their lives.

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