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Yelena G. Bodien, PhD

Assistant Professor
Massachusetts General Hospital/Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

Yelena G. Bodien received a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is Associate Director of the Laboratory for Neuroimaging of Coma and Consciousness, and Research Scientist in the Spaulding Neurorehabilitation Lab. Dr. Bodien’s research applies standardized behavioral measures and advanced neuroimaging to improve diagnostic and prognostic precision of severe brain injury. She is especially interested in understanding recovery from Disorders of Consciousness. Dr. Bodien is the Spaulding-Harvard TBI Model Systems (TBIMS) principal investigator for the site-specific project which aims to understand patient and caregiver perspectives on meaningful outcome after severe traumatic brain injury. She is also the site principal investigator for a TBI Model Systems project aimed at leveraging CT data to predict traumatic brain injury outcomes, and site principal investigator and Outcomes Core lead for the Curing Coma Campaign ACute cOma PragMatic ProspectivE ObSErvational Study (COMPOSE). Dr. Bodien is an investigator and Outcomes Core member for the Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in TBI (TRACK-TBI) study. She is also leading the first paper resulting from a 15-year international collaboration of the James S. McDonnell Foundation Coma and Consciousness Consortium. Dr. Bodien co-chairs the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Brain Injury Special Interest Group Disorders of Consciousness Task Force and the Neurocritical Care Society Curing Coma Campaign Prospective Studies workgroup. She also leads the Curing Coma Campaign Outcomes and Endpoints Common Data Elements workgroup. Finally, Dr. Bodien actively and happily mentors research coordinators, graduate students, residents, fellows, and faculty interested in pursuing research.

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