Jennie Ponsford, PhD

Director
Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre
Richmond, Victoria, Australia

Professor Jennie Ponsford is the Director of the Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre which was created in 2000. Its aim is to conduct research in trauma rehabilitation, with a view to reducing long-term disability. Outcome after moderate and severe traumatic brain injury has been examined in considerable breadth, in terms of psychosocial functioning, employment, cognition, coping, pain, psychiatric health, sexual functioning, and family relationships. The impact of genetic factors, age and other demographic factors on outcome is a focus of study, including cultural influences upon outcome. Developing effective management protocols have been a recent focus of the work of the Centre, including management of patients in PTA, rehabilitation of cognitive and behavioural dysfunction, and development and evaluation of community-based models of rehabilitation. The research being conducted by the MERRC is recognised internationally, as is evident from the significant number of invited international conference presentations made by Professor Ponsford and her associates, her election as the first Australian President of the International Neuropsychological Society, her inclusion on panels constituted by the US Department of Defense and the World Health Organisation, her invitation to submit reviews to high profile journals such as the British Medical Journal, Current Opinion in Neurology and Nature Clinical Practice Neurology, and the calibre of its numerous journal publications.

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

Presentation(s):

• Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Cannot Reliably Differentiate Anxiety and Depression Following Traumatic Brain Injury

  Thursday, November 10, 2022
  3:35 PM – 3:51 PM