Brooke M. Murtaugh, OTD, OTR/L, CBIST, BT-C

Brain Injury Program Manager
Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Dr. Brooke Murtaugh is a graduate of Wayne State College in Wayne, NE where she received her bachelor’s in Health Science. She then received her Clinical Doctorate in Occupational Therapy from Creighton University in 2004. She began working as an occupational therapist at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals in 2006. She has practiced in brain injury rehabilitation for fifteen years. Brooke serves as Madonna’s brain injury and disorders of consciousness program manager and continues to practice as a clinician, primarily consulting on and treating the DOC population. She received her national certification as a Brain Injury Specialist in 2009 and Brain Injury National Specialist Trainer from the Brain Injury Association of America in 2016. Brooke is responsible for coordinating the care and rehabilitation programs serving Madonna’s brain injury population across the continuum of care at both the Lincoln and Omaha Nebraska campuses. Dr. Murtaugh is a member of the Disorders of Consciousness Task Force and Brain Injury Special Interest Group through the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the International Brain Injury Association DoC Special Interest Group. She is also the co-chair of the International Campaign to Cure Coma Care of the Coma Patient Work Group and sits on the Coma Campaigns Scientific Steering Committee. She has presented numerous presentations on brain injury rehabilitation and DoC care throughout the Midwest region and nationally.

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Presentation(s):

• IC10: Implementing Minimal Competency Recommendations for Disorder of Consciousness Rehabilitation: Optimizing Recovery Across the Continuum.

  Sunday, November 6, 2022
  1:30 PM – 5:30 PM

• Disorders of Consciousness Family Education Materials: Implementation and dissemination

  Tuesday, November 8, 2022
  2:15 PM – 3:30 PM

• Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Interventions for the Burn Survivor

  Wednesday, November 9, 2022
  4:45 PM – 6:00 PM

• Confound to Consciousness: Interdisciplinary Spasticity Management in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness Part 1

  Thursday, November 10, 2022
  10:45 AM – 12:00 PM

• Confound to Consciousness: Interdisciplinary Spasticity Management in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness Part 2

  Thursday, November 10, 2022
  1:30 PM – 2:45 PM

• Burn Rehabilitation New Forming Group

  Thursday, November 10, 2022
  3:30 PM – 4:30 PM

• Curing Coma Campaign: Pathway to Curing Coma Through Scientific Discovery, Evidence-Based Practice and Interdisciplinary Collaboration.

  Friday, November 11, 2022
  11:00 AM – 12:15 PM

• Developing Quality Burn Rehabilitation Services in a Post-Acute Care Setting

  Friday, November 11, 2022
  1:00 PM – 2:15 PM