Mission
Our mission is to advance the development of effective methods of assessment and treatment for persons who sustain moderate to severe acquired brain injury and disorders of consciousness (DoC).
Meet Joseph T. Giacino, PhD
Dr. Joseph T. Giacino is Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Director of Rehabilitation Neuropsychology, the Disorders of Consciousness Program and the Neurorehabilitation Laboratory at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Co-Director of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Outcomes Center. He is also an Associate Neuropsychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Adjunct Professor in the Rehabilitation Sciences Doctoral Program at the MGH Institute of Health Professions and serves on the faculty of the HMS Center for Bioethics. He is a Past-President (2010-2011) of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) and a Fellow in the National Academy of Neuropsychology and in the ACRM. His teams have produced widely-recognized assessment tools such as the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised and identified the only treatment (ie, amantadine hydrochloride) proven to accelerate the pace of recovery following severe TBI. He is a Principal Investigator or MPI on three federally-funded multi-center grants, including the Spaulding-Harvard Traumatic Brain Injury Model System (NIDILRR, 2012-2027), Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in TBI (NINDS and DoD, 2013-2029) and Central Thalamic Stimulation for Traumatic Brain Injury (NINDS, 2015-2024) and oversees a large portfolio of additional studies funded by federal, philanthropic and private agencies. He is currently Co-Chair of the NINDS TBI Common Data Element Steering Committee and sits on the Scientific Advisory Boards of the TBI National Data and Statistical Center and the Neurocritical Care Society’s Curing Coma Campaign. Dr. Giacino has published over 200 articles and book chapters and is the recipient of the ACRM Brain Injury Special Interest Group’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Brain Injury Association of America’s William Fields Caveness Award, the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Robert L. Moody Prize and the North American Brain Injury Society’s Clinical Research Award.
Research Projects
Sign-Up Forms
Participate in a Research Study
Research Inquiry:
Fill out the following contact form for research inquiries. You may also use the Contact page to make an inquiry. Please indicate the study you are interested in participating in the comment section.
Get the Newsletter
Research Inquiry:
Fill out the following contact form to sign-up to receive the Rehabilitation Outcomes Center at Spaulding (ROCS) newsletter. This newsletter contains updates on all the different rehabilitation research going on around Spaulding.