Associate Director of Research
Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare
Dr. Caroline Schnakers has been working as a clinical scientist in the neurorehabilitation field for the past 20 years. Her work focuses on research on brain-injured patients with Disorders of Consciousness (DOC) and, more particularly, on the assessment of their brain activity and cognitive functions using behavioral, electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques. She has published more than 130 articles (H-index: 62) in international peer reviewed journals such as Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Nature Reviews Neurology and Lancet.
Dr. Schnakers is the Associate Director of the Research Institute at Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare (Pomona, CA) and serves as the Chair of the Special Interest Group on Disorders of Consciousness for the International Brain Injury Association.