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Risa Nakase-Richardson, FACRM, FNAN

Rehabilitation Neuropsychologist
James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital
Tampa, Florida, United States

Dr. Risa Nakase-Richardson is the Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development at the Tampa VA. She has a dual appointment at the University of South Florida where she is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the Morsani College of Medicine, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine Division. She also serves as the Senior Clinical Research Director for one of the ten Defense Health Agency TBI Centers of Excellence (DHA TBI COE) at the Tampa VA. Dr. Richardson has worked in neurorehabilitation in both clinical and research capacities since 1998. She is a Fellow of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and National Academy of Neuropsychology. She currently has 146 publications including 3 clinical guidelines and position statements endorsed by the American Academy of Neurology and American Congress of Rehabilitation representing translation of her work. She has served as Guest Editor on three special issues on topics of sleep and TBI, disorders of consciousness, and rehabilitation outcomes of military TBI including an upcoming issue on TBI and Implementation Science. She is Associate Editor of Brain Injury Medicine, 3rd edition and has over 300 presentations at international and national conferences. Dr. Richardson has served as PI or Investigator on 22 grants funded by various federal agencies and private organizations including VA, DOD, PCORI, NIH, NIDILRR, and NAN. She currently serves in various leadership roles including Chair of the TBI Model Systems and American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) Disorder of Consciousness Task Force, ACRM BOG Member-at-Large, and Co-Chair of the Implementation Science Module in the Curing Coma Campaign which is part of the Neurocritical Care Society.

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