Associate Professor
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Lisa Spielman, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She has extensive expertise in epidemiological, longitudinal, and clinical trials in the areas of Traumatic Brain Injury, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Spinal Cord Injury, Geriatric Psychiatry, HIV, and Anxiety Disorders. At ISMMS she brings expertise in research design and analysis to her collaborations with the Brain Injury Research Center, the SCI team, and the Abilities Research Center. As senior statistician/methodologist for the MS-BIRC, she is involved with multiple cycles of TBI-Model Systems, DOD-funded studies of Aging with TBI, CDC-funded TBI-Injury Control Research Center, and NIJ-funded RCT for treatment of TBI in justice-involved individuals. At Brain Trauma Foundation, she directed analysis of the DOD-funded novel application of eye tracking technology for concussion detection, which included 10,000 military and civilian cases and led to FDA clearance of the device as an aide to concussion diagnosis. At Weill-Cornell, she serves as senior statistician on the groundbreaking DOD-funded RCT on Virtual Reality treatment of PTSD and on trials for treatment of Military Sexual Trauma. In industry, she consults on the first-in-US trial of Synchron’s Stentrode, which allows individuals with severe paralysis to control a computer through brain-computer interface (BCI). She has held faculty positions at Weill-Cornell Medical College, and New York Hospital-Westchester, and taught at New York University. She provides consultation for internationally recognized medical centers, private foundations, and industry across the spectrum of specialties.
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