Katherine Casey-Sawicki

Center member Drs. Katharina Busl, Carolina Maciel, and Brian Hoh, along with Dr. Cameron Smith, are leading a national trial to alleviate headache from subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Dr. Michael S. Jaffee, an expert in brain injury and sleep medicine and our center director, has been named chair of the UF Department of Neurology.

Dr. Mike Jaffee, center director, was recently featured on the Brain&Life Podcast. In the episode, Dr. Jaffee discusses the different types of concussions and traumatic brain injuries along with the typical progression of symptoms and various treatment protocols. Listen to the episode below or through the Brain&Life podcast website.

Help kick off Brain Awareness Week on Monday, March 6th at 12:00 pm in the DeWeese Auditorium (MBI LG-101A). Dr. Aysegul Gunduz, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Fixel Brain Mapping Professor, and Ava Burgess, Graduate Research Assistant in the Brain Mapping Laboratory, will discuss their experiences with traumatic brain…

Rus Bauer Center Steering Committee member, Russel Bauer, PhD, ABPP-CN, was recently awarded the International Neuropsychological Society’s Lifetime Service Award. Professor Emeritus in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Dr. Bauer has acted as primary mentor for over 40 doctoral students over the course of his career and had…

UF neuroscientists, including center member David Vaillancourt, provide preclinical evidence for adoptive cellular therapy as a potential immunotherapy treatment to improve symptoms in genetic…

As the assistant director of UF’s Breathing Research and Therapeutics (BREATHE) Center as well as UF’s Brain Injury, Rehabilitation, and Neuroresilience (BRAIN) Center, Kate Casey-Sawicki‘s duties are wide-ranging, including grant writing, marketing and communications, management of training grants, web design, event planning and general project management.

Join us via Zoom on Monday, Jan 9 at 12 pm for the first UF BRAIN Building of the year! Center Steering Committee members Dr. Lakiesha Williams and Dr. Joe Abisambra will discuss “Developing the Brain Injury Collaborative Network: Basic Sciences.” Anyone interested in building a collective infrastructure with the expertise to empower BRAIN Center members’…

Dorian Rose, a member of BRAIN member and the Brooks/UF–PHHP Research Collaboration, was recently featured in Brooks Beyond Magazine. A world-class expert in neurorehabilitation, Dr. Rose spoke about her most research work.

Led by UF team physician and center member Jay Clugston, UF will partner with the NFL better understand on-field head impact.