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Assistant Research Professor and Co-Director
Center for Brain Injury Research (CIBIRT) , University of Oregon
Salem, Oregon, United States
Melissa McCart, Ed.D, is an Assistant Research Professor and the co-director of the Center on Brain Injury Research and Training (CBIRT) in the department of Psychology at the University of Oregon. Dr. McCart has a background as a special education teacher for students with emotional disturbance, behavioral consultant, and school administrator. For the last 10 years, she has coordinated the Oregon TBI Teams, an interdisciplinary group of educators who support Oregon educators who work with students with traumatic brain injury. She currently oversees CBIRT’s outreach efforts to address childhood brain injury. This outreach includes working on legislation and policy with state agencies, developing evidence-based tools and resources, and evaluating training and technical assistance for school districts, departments of health, and state agencies. She is a researcher in the field of special education with expertise in the areas of instructional design, emotional and behavioral disorders, traumatic brain injury, special education law and policy and the design, and delivery and evaluation of interventions. Her research is focused on evidence-based educator training, advancing best-practices for return to school following brain injury, and ensuring educational policy is guided/supported by the empirical evidence.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Thursday, November 10, 2022
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM
