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Professor
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Joseph T. Giacino, PhD is Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and Director of Rehabilitation Neuropsychology, the Disorders of Consciousness Program and the Neurorehabilitation Laboratory at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. He also holds appointments as a Neuropsychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Adjunct Professor in the Rehabilitation Sciences Doctoral Program at the MGH Institute of Health Professions and teaches Neuroethics at the HMS Center for Bioethics. His research focuses on developing more precise neurodiagnostic procedures, clinical outcome assessment measures and therapies for persons with severe acquired brain injury. He serves as Principal/Co-Principal Investigator on multiple federally-funded multicenter grants, including the Spaulding-Harvard Traumatic Brain Injury Model System, Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in TBI, TBI Endpoint Development and Central Thalamic Stimulation for TBI. He co-chairs the NINDS TBI Common Data Element Steering Committee and is Past-President of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM). He led the expert panels that developed the minimally conscious state case definition and 2018 Practice Guideline Update on Disorders of Consciousness. Dr. Giacino has authored over 160 publications and is the recipient of the ACRM BI-ISIG Lifetime Achievement Award, William Fields Caveness Award (BIAA, Inc) and Robert L. Moody Prize (University of Texas Medical Branch).
