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Vicki Anderson is Director, Clinical Sciences Research, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Science, University of Melbourne, NHMRC Investigator Fellow, and a Director of the Board of the Concussion in Sport group. Her research and clinical interests are in disorders of childhood that impact on the brain, including both developmental and acquired disorders, particularly traumatic brain injury and concussion. Her research takes a multidimensional approach to understanding behavioural consequences of these injuries and the biological mechanisms underpinning them. Her recent work has focussed on translating her early career findings into clinical practice to optimise child outcomes from acquired brain injury. Major translational achievements include: i) publication of the Test of Everyday Attention for Children; ii) development of easily accessed, low burden, e-health approaches to parent-focused psychosocial treatments to maximise child outcomes; iii) development of a novel, comprehensive iPad delivered assessment tool for social competence (PEERs: patent pending); iv) digital health tools for monitoring child post concussion symptoms (endorsed in a partnership with the Australian Football League); and v) co-authorship of the first-ever international paediatric sports concussion guidelines of the International Consensus on Sports Concussion. She has published over 600 peer reviewed papers, 6 books, and has 50M (AUD) in competitive research funds to her credit. She is Associate Editor of the APA journal ‘Neuropsychology’ and the British Psychological Society ‘Journal of Neuropsychology’. She is the First Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology in Australia (2002), and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, the Australian Psychological Society, and founding fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Scientists. She is a founding board member of the International Paediatric Brain Injury Society, a board member of the International Brain Injury Association, past president of the Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment, and past president of the International Neuropsychological Society.

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Sheldon Benjamin, MD, DLFAPA, FAAN, FANPA is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, Director of Neuropsychiatry, and Vice Chair for Education at University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was Director of Psychiatry Residency Training for 25 years and founded the combined Neurology/Psychiatry residency program in 1997. Boarded in both Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) and Behavioral Neurology/Neuropsychiatry (UCNS), he is Past President of the American Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA) and the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (AADPRT) and currently serves as a Psychiatry Director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). He has won numerous teaching awards including the University of Massachusetts’ Chancellor’s Medal for Distinguished Teaching as well as ANPA’s Gary J. Tucker Lifetime Achievement Award in Neuropsychiatry.

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Dolores Claros-Salinas been active in neurorehabilitation since 1984. Her past positions include Neurolinguist (Department of Neuropsychology, Municipal Hospital Munich-Bogenhausen); and then was Head of neurological vocational therapy, Kliniken Schmieder Konstanz; and Head of neurological vocational therapy, Kliniken Schmieder Allensbach, Gailingen, Konstanz, Stuttgart and Heidelberg. Dr. Claros-Salinas’s main neurorehabilitative focus areas are: vocational neurorehabilitation, attention and fatigue, complex language processing (text comprehension and text production), acalculia - diagnosis and treatment of number processing and arithmetic disorders, functional imaging (fMRI) on brain plasticity after training of arithmetic functions. Her scientific activities, research, and teaching include: Research project “European Standardized Computerized Assessment Procedure for the Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Brain-Damaged Patients” / Project manager: Prof. Dr. G. Deloche (1990-1997); Project management (German Research Foundation) together with Prof. Dr. K. Willmes–von Hinckeldey and Prof. Dr. Dr. H.-O. Karnath: “Symptom-oriented voxel-based statistical lesion analysis in aphasia and acalculia” (2010 – 2013); Project management together with Dr. M. Streibelt, German Pension Insurance, Berlin: “Validation of the screening instrument SIMBO-C for neurological diseases” (2014 – 2015).
Since 2022 , she has been the scientific expert of the research project “Needs-focused participation in working life for patients with acquired brain damage”, German Pension Insurance, Berlin. She was a member of the editorial team of “Aphasie und verwandte Gebiete” published by aphasie suisse, Switzerland (2005 – 2018); Board member of the Lurija Institute for Rehabilitation Sciences and Health Research at the University of Konstanz, Germany (2003 – 2017). Dr. Claros-Salinas teaches at the Danube University Krems, Austria and the University of Konstanz, Germany. She has given talks at scientific conferences in Germany, Austria, Brazil, Columbia, France, Italy, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland. Her publications include books and journals; recent book release: Claros-Salinas, D. (2023). Berufliche Teilhabe und Wiedereingliederung in der Neurorehabilitation (Vol. 25). Hogrefe Verlag.

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Ariel Cuadro has a Bachelors degree in Psychology, is a specialist in Learning Difficulties, has a Masters in Educational Psychology and a PhD in Psychology (University of Murcia-Spain) and postdoctoral studies (University of Granada-Spain). He is Dean of the Faculty of Psychology (2005-2009) and Academic Vice Rector (2009-2017) of the Catholic University of Uruguay; a Level II Member of the National System of Researchers; Director of the Department of Neuroscience and Learning. Dr. Cuadro is responsible for the doctoral programs at the Catholic University of Uruguay and is the Masters and Doctoral thesis director. He is President of the Latin American Society of Neuropsychology, Vice President of the Uruguayan Society of Neuropsychology, Vice President of the Uruguayan Society of Neuropsychology. He was previously the Specialist Consultant for UNESCO and the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) for the study of written language programs. In addition, he developed and implemented training programs for UNICEF and the National Public Education Administration (ANEP). He serves as a reviewer of academic journals of the specialty; is a University accreditor of Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Paraguay, and has developed assessment techniques and intervention programs in the written language that have been published and are used in educational centers in the country and the region. Dr. Cuadro has published numerous academic articles, book chapters, and books.

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Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz is a pediatrician by training, and is a full-time research associate at CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, France, where she studies the development of cognitive functions in children using brain imaging techniques. She is director of the developmental brain imaging program at Neurospin, Saclay, an imaging center dedicated to brain research near Paris. She has published pioneering work using high-density event-related potentials (Nature 1994), functional resonance magnetic imaging (Science 2002) or optical topography (PNAS 2003) to study language acquisition. The aim of her research is to study the brain functional organization at the beginning of life to understand how complex cognitive functions, such as language, music, mathematics, consciousness, etc… emerge in the human brain, and also study how school education builds on this pre-existing organization but also transforms it, to enable reading for example. She has received several awards in France and is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. With colleagues, she has published a book on language for a general audience “La plus belle histoire du langage”, and a book for general practitioners on how to understand and monitor children developmental disorders in primary care « Les troubles dys avant 7 ans : Les clés pour comprendre et assurer le suivi en médecine de ville ». She has been a spokesperson on early development for French national magazines, newspapers, radio and television.

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Stanislas Dehaene is a French psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist. He holds the Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collége de France in Paris, and directs the NeuroSpin center in Saclay, south of Paris, France's advanced brain imaging research center. Stanislas Dehaene is recognized as one of Europe’s most prominent brain scientists. He is well known for his pioneering studies of “the number sense”, the innate brain circuits that we share with other primates and that allow us to understand numbers and mathematics. His research investigates the neural bases of human cognitive functions such as reading, calculation and language, with a particular interest for the differences between conscious and non-conscious processing, and for the impact of education on the brain. Prof. Dehaene is a member of nine international academies and a recipient of the Brain Prize. In 2018, he became the president of the newly created French Scientific Council for Education, which advises the French government on scientific approaches to learning and teaching. He is the author of multiple books including Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention (2009), How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine…For Now (2020), and Seeing the Mind (2023). His books have been translated into more than fifteen languages.

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Jorge Hernandez Franco is a Specialist in rehabilitation medicine. Graduated medical doctor at the national University Mexico 1985. Graduated in the specialty in rehabilitation medicine at the National University in Mexico 1989. Certified in neurological rehabilitation, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne U.K. in 1999. Head of the rehabilitation department at the National Neurology and Neurosurgery Institute M.V.S. in Mexico City since 1991. Professor of the postgraduate course in neurological rehabilitation for neurologists and specialists in rehabilitation medicine at the National Neurology and Neurosurgery Institute and National University in Mexico since 2002. Vice-president for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean of The World Federation for Neurorehabilitation (WFNR) 1997. President of the newly found Latin-American Neurorehabilitation Association 2017.

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Alvaro Massao Nomura is an orthopedic surgeon and Vice President of the SARAH Network of Rehabilitation Hospitals, a 700-bed, 9-hospital healthcare and rehabilitation system that treats over 1,900,000 patients annually. In addition, he is its surgeon-in-chief and coordinates the activities of 73 surgeons. His training began in 1976 at the SARAH Network and included specializations in pediatric orthopedics at Oxford University (UK); movement disorders at the Motion Laboratory of the University of California in San Diego (USA); congenital clubfoot at the University of Iowa (USA); and scoliosis surgery at Harvard University (USA). Dr. Nomura treats and conducts life-long follow-up of patients with cerebral palsy, and has been training professionals in the field of orthopedics and other areas of rehabilitation for 44 years. He has written book chapters and scientific articles in several international journals.

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Mayowa Ojo Owolabi is a renowned Professor of Neurology, and Director, Center for Genomic and Precision Medicine, University of Ibadan.
He is an eminent scholar with a stroke phenotyping software patent >400 publications in peer-reviewed journals including The Lancet, and Nature, with >135,000 citations and a Google Scholar h-index of 87. Prof. Owolabi is a recognized global leader in medicine, neurology, cardiovascular diseases, neuro-rehabilitation, global health, brain health, community-based genomic epidemiology of stroke in Africa, clinical trials and implementation science.
Prof. Owolabi is an outstanding scientist with several inventions and innovations including ‘stroke quadrangle’ and ‘brain quadrangle’, which are accepted globally as key ingredients driving the global interventions against stroke and for promoting brain health in Africa and beyond.
He is among the global top 2% scientists (2023) and the winner of the 2021 World Stroke Organization Global Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Stroke Research. He is a foremost leader in the global fight against stroke and a frontline leader in the fight against hypertension, stroke and non-communicable diseases in Africa.. He is associate editor of Stroke journal and several other top tier Neurology journals. He leads the largest stroke study in Africa as principal investigator of several grants and co-investigator in including Stroke Investigative Research & Educational Network (SIREN) grant (with the largest neurobiobank in Africa >170,000 samples) from National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA; Systematic Investigation of Blacks with Stroke using Genomics (SIBS Genomics) R01NS107900. He pioneered the establishment of the fisrt multi-disciplinary neurorehabilitation Center in East, West and Central Africa.
He is a member of the Presidium and the pioneer Regional Vice-President, World Federation of Neurorehabilitation (Africa); member Board of Directors, World Stroke Organization; African Regional Director, World Hypertension League; Lead Co-Chair, WSO- Lancet Commission on stroke. He is foundation co-chair of the steering committee of African Stroke Organization; and Member/Rapporteur of the WHO Technical Action Group on NCD (Research and Innovation). He is co-Lead of the African Research Universities Alliance- The Guild Universities Cluster of Excellence for non-communicable diseases. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, American Heart Association, Royal College of Physicians, Academy of Medical Specialties, Nigerian Academy of Science, African Academy of Science and Atria Academy of Science and Medicine (USA).

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He graduated as a medical doctor in 1993 and as a clinical neurophysiologist in 1997. He worked at the Cuban Neuroscience Centre and different University Hospitals in Cuba and Colombia. During his clinical work, he focused on neurophysiological aspects of dementia syndromes and other neurological disorders. He has been teaching neuroscience-related subjects in medicine and psychology. His motivation for teaching and research led him to a significant career change into academia via a European Scholarship from the ALBAN programme. This started with a PhD in Human Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh from 2005-2009 and continued with three Personal Postdoctoral Fellowships at the University of Edinburgh. He was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Heriot-Watt University from 2015 to 2018.
In 2018, he was appointed as a professor of psychology at the University of Strathclyde, Department of Psychological Sciences and Health, where he leads the Applied Cognition Lab and shortly the Department (from 01/08/2024). His Lab connects a broad international network. He leads major international networks such as the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium on Dementia and the EuroLAD-EEG Consortium, the first global platform to enhance EEG methods for dementia in research and clinical contexts. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Scottish Dementia Research Consortium, where he leads the Informatics and Technology theme. He has made significant contributions to the development of neurocognitive biomarkers for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. He has contributed more than 150 publications to high-impact journals (H-index of 30) and received prestigious awards such as the Outstanding Contributions to Dementia Research by Alzheimer’s Society UK and the Arthur Benton mid-career award by the International Neuropsychological Society.

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Marcela Peña is a pediatrician and has obtained her PhD in Cognitive Science and Psycholinguistics from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France. Presently, she holds the position of Full Professor at the School of Psychology at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, where she leads the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience. Additionally, Dr. Peña serves as the Scientific Director at the National Center of Artificial Intelligence in Chile.
Dr. Peña has been affiliated to several multidisciplinary initiatives aimed at protecting and promoting learning skills when children develop in adverse contexts. For instance, she is member of the UNESCO Chair of Science for Education, entitled "Building a Bridge between Laboratory and Classroom," operating under the leadership of Professor Roberto Lent in Brazil, she contributes as an invited researcher within the J-Pal network, and she is an active member of the UBC Language Sciences group in Canada.
Dr. Peña's research is centered on early cognitive development and early learning, employing a multidisciplinary approach that integrates behavioral and neuroimaging techniques. Her investigations delve into how infants and young children, both typically developing and with atypical development, acquire language, learn from their environment, and develop foundational cognitive skills crucial for their education and well-being.
More recently, Dr. Peña and her team have been engaged in designing tablet-based interventions aimed at promoting linguistic and communicative abilities among preschool-aged children, as innovative tools to support the activity of early childhood educators.

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Thomas Platz was educated at the medical school in Heidelberg/Mannheim, Germany, and in 1988 at the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA, received his Dr. med. degree in 1990. He started his residency in neurology in Berlin, Germany, in 1989. In 1995, he received the Feodor-Lynen Fellowship (AvH foundation) to stay at the National Hospital and Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK. In 1997, he received a Dipl. in epidem. and biostats from the McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, and became board certified Neurologist and Clinical Geriatrist in Berlin, Germany. In 2002, he received his habilitation degree (Dr. med. habil.) in neurorehabilitation at the Charité Berlin, Germany. In 2006, he became the Head of Department for neurohabilitation at the BDH Klinik Greifswald, Germany. Since 2009, he had been acting as a Medical Director of that hospital and as Head of the Department of both its Neurorehabilitation Centre and Spinal Cord Injury Unit, and received a personal professorship for neurorehabilitation at the University Greifswald. Since 10.2018 he acts as Medical Director Research at the BDH Klinik Greifswald and Head, Institute for Neurorehabilitation and Evidence-based Practice ("An-Institut"), University of Greifswald; in addition, he leads the neurorehabilitation research group at the University Medical Centre Greifswald. He is Past-President of the German society for neurorehabilitation (DGNR), and head of its Practice Guideline and Research Committees. Specialty Chief Editor in Neurorehabilitation for Frontiers in Neurology. For the World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation (WFNR) he acts as head of the Education Committee and head of the Special Interest Group Clinical Pathways; in addition, he is liaison person for the WFNR-Cochrane Rehabilitation collaboration.

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Jenny Ponsford is Professor of Neuropsychology in the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University, where she established and directed the doctoral training program in Clinical Neuropsychology 2000-2019. She is Director of the Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre at Epworth Healthcare. Over 42 years she has conducted clinical work and research with individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), investigating outcomes and the efficacy of rehabilitative interventions, with over 500 publications, including two books. She is Past-President of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), International Association for Study of TBI and Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment. She has received the Robert Moody prize for Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury and Rehabilitation (2013), INS Paul Satz Career Mentoring Award (2015), IBIA Jennett Plum Award for Outstanding Clinical Achievement in Brain Injury Medicine (2023) and in 2017 was made Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished contributions to neuropsychology and diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of TBI. In 2020, 2022 and 2023 The Australian’ named her as Australia’s leading researcher in the field of Rehabilitation Therapy. She serves on editorial boards of seven journals and is an Associate Editor of Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.

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Mariano Socolovsky is Chief of Division of Neurosurgery, Hospital de Clínicas, University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine. He is also Head Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine; Chairman, Peripheral Nerve Committee, World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies; and President (2022-2024) of the Argentine Association of Neurosurgery.

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Nirmal Suruya is Chairman, Surya Neuro Center; founder Trustee & Chairman of the Epilepsy Foundation in India; Fellow of the Indian Academy of Neurology; Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences; Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology; President of the Indian Federation of Neuro - Rehabilitation (IFNR); Regional Vice Presidentof the World Federation NeuroRehabilitation (WFNR); Past President of the Indian Academy of Neurology (IAN); President Elect: Indian Stroke Association (ISA); Chair of the Developing World Forum SIG; WFNR President- Indian Federation of Neuro-Rehabilitation (IFNR); President, Asian Ocenian Society of Neurorehabilitation (AOSNR); Chair, Telemedicine Academy Indian Confederation For Healthcare Accreditation (ICHA); Member at Large, Presidium, WFNR; Member, Digital Strategy Subcommittee (DSS), American Academy of Neurology (AAN 2021-2-23); President, WCNR2018, Mumbai; Treasurer, Indian Academy of Neurology (IAN) 2014-20; Executive Member, Indian Stroke Association (2018-2021); Past President- Bombay Neurosciences Association; Past President, Maharastra Asoociation of Neurology. His special acheivements include: Ashwini Sahakari Rugnalaya Ani Sanshodhan Kendra Niyamit Inauguration of “Neuro Rehabilitation Centre” as Chief Guest on 30th July 2023 at Solapur; “Eighth IEA Oration in Epileptology 2023” Conference organized by Sri Venkateshwara Institute of Medical Sciences on 01st June 2023 at Tirupati; Guest of Honour, Installation Ceremoney of Nagpur Epilepsy AssociationNov 2023 followed by oration. He is also the President Elect of the Indian Stroke Association

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Dr. Smith is Associate Professor of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Scottsdale, Arizona. He is the Director of the Sensory Laboratory and a Consultant for the Department of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic. He is certified by the ABPN in Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuromuscular Medicine, and participates in continuing certification. He also is certified by the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine. He chairs the American Academy of Neurology Members Research Subcommittee. As an American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) Director, Dr. Smith serves on the Neurology Council and many other ABPN committees, chairing the General Neurology Initial Certification Committee.

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Josep M. Vendrell i Brucet is a Neurologist, who for many years (1983-2020) headed the Neuropsychology Division of the Neurology Department at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona, Spain, and served as a Founding Director of its Llenguatge School of Pathology (1976). He was previously Professor of Anatomy of the Nervous System (1978-1986) and Professor of Neurology (Department of Medicine, 1986-2014) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Currently, he is Director and Head of Research of the Euglia Cognitive Telemedicine Project (2002-) for the stimulation and rehabilitation of higher brain functions.

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Shari Wade is a tenured professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and director of research in the Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Since 1991, she has conducted federally-funded research examining factors influencing recovery following traumatic brain injury. She pioneered the development and testing of technology-based interventions to reduce the behavioral and family consequences of TBI and other neurological conditions, as described in over 300 peer-reviewed publications. Currently, she is implementing the Teen Online Problem Solving program, identified as a practice standard in recent evidence-based guidelines, at 15 sites in the United States and Canada. With partners across the world, she has worked to identify pathways to integrating evidence-based programs into community care.

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Klaus Willmes (born 1950) is a retired full professor of psychology, whose research centers on a number of topics, including numerical cognition and its disorders, assessment and treatment of aphasic language disorders and other neuropsychological disorders, as well as psychometric and statistical single-case analysis procedures in neuropsychology. As of 1997 until retirement in 2016, he was nominated professor of neuropsychology at the Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen University, Germany and from 2014-2016 also director of the Center for Sign Language and Gesture (SignGes).
Willmes was awarded the Alfred Binet prize for the advancement of psychological diagnostics from the German Society for Psychology in 2005 for his work on the Aachen Aphasia Test (AAT).
Willmes studied mathematics and psychology at the RWTH Aachen University from 1969 to 1979 obtaining master degrees (diplomas) in both fields. He turned to neuropsychology to work and do research in the interdisciplinary neurolinguistic and neuropsychological working group (headed by Klaus Poeck) until 1996. Willmes completed his PhD in Psychology in 1987 with Jürgen Bredenkamp at the University of Trier and got his habilitation from the University of Bielefeld in 1994.
Willmes has published over 300 research papers, over 50 book chapters, 11 test procedures and 1 book on single-case diagnostics (in German with Bruno Fimm). He had many funded projects among others from the EU, the German Research Society and the German Ministry for Education and Research. Willmes was a member of the editorial board of several journals, including Aphasiology, European Journal of Neuropsychology, Neuropsychologia, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.

His collaboration with SARAH dates back more than 25 years.

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Barbara Wilson is a clinical neuropsychologist who has worked in brain injury rehabilitation for 45 years. She has published 35 books, 204 peer reviewed papers, 125 chapters and 8 neuropsychological tests. She has won many awards for her work including an OBE from the Queen in 1998, for services to rehabilitation; five lifetime achievement awards, including one from the NHS 70 year anniversary parliamentary awards where she was regional champion for the Midlands and East Region. In 2011 she received the Ramon Y Cahal award from the International Neuropsychiatric Association. In 2014 she received an honorary degree from The University of Cordoba, Argentina. Also in 2014 she received the M.B. Shapiro award from The Division of Clinical Psychology (affiliated to The British Psychological Society) for Distinguished Contributions to Clinical Psychology. In 2019 she received the annual award from the Spanish Clinical Neuropsychological Society. For many years she was editor of the journal “Neuropsychological Rehabilitation” which she founded in 1991 and in 1996 she established the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. A rehabilitation centre in Quito, Ecuador is named after her. The Division of Neuropsychology named a prize after her, the ‘Barbara Wilson prize for distinguished contributions to neuropsychology’. She is a Fellow of The British Psychological Society, The Academy of Medical Sciences and The Academy of Social Sciences. She is honorary professor at the Universities of Hong Kong, Sydney, East Anglia and Fernando Pessoa University, Porto, Portugal. She has held 30 research grants. Her work has resulted in changes in clinical practice. For example, as a result of a randomised control trial evaluating a paging system to improve the everyday functioning of people with memory and planning problems, the local health authority set this up as a health care system for people throughout the United Kingdom.