Speaker: Dr. Robin Green

Dr. Robin Green is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and senior scientist in cognitive neurosciences at the University Health Network - KITE, and the Saunderson Chair in Acquired Brain Injury. Her program of research addresses brain and behavioural mechanisms of recovery from traumatic brain injury, and the development of interventions based on these findings. Her lab has helped to better understand impediments to recovery, challenging prevailing assumptions of moderate-severe traumatic brain injury as a static disorder, and reconceptualizing it as neurodegenerative, with early recovery of brain and behaviour followed often by declines in the months and years post-injury. Encouragingly, the lab has identified novel, modifiable treatment targets, and has been using these findings to develop interventions for mitigation of decline and improvement of clinical outcome. Dr. Green and colleagues established the TeleRehab Centre for Acquired Brain Injury to treat and study the enduring effects of mild to severe brain injury of any etiology. Patients across the province and beyond receive remotely delivered, group-based assessments and behavioural interventions (pro bono). The Centre was created to address a considerable gap in current treatment, and provides access to treatment for patients regardless of geographic location, mobility restrictions or socio-economic status. Dr. Green is a co-founder and co-lead of ECHO Concussion, she is the Neuropsychology lead for the Canadian Concussion Centre at UHN, and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. She completed her PhD at Cambridge University, her post-doctoral training at the St. Guy’s and St. Thomas’s Hospital in London, England, and her clinical neuropsychology training at the University Health Network in Toronto.