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“What do we Know about Consciousness and What do we
Need to Know?” Scientists and Researchers in the Field Brain Injury,
Ethics, Coma and Coma-Like States meet at International Consensus
Conference on Consciousness Sponsored by Northeast Center for Special Care
and National Brain Injury Research, Treatment and Training Foundation (NBIRTT).
Group photo
L to R front row: Dr. Joseph
Giacino, Associate
Director of Neuropsychology at the JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute -
Center for Head Injuries and the New Jersey Neuroscience Institute at JFK
Medical Center, Dr. Alfred Frontera, Kingston Neurological Associates, Gerry Brooks, MA,
CCC, CBIT,
Brain Injury Program Director of Northeast Center for Special Care, Dr. Jose Leon-Carrion of
the University of Seville, Spain, Dr. Jean Langlois, Epidemiologist from the
Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Warren Lux of the Defense and
Veterans Brain Injury Center, US Department of Defense, Dr.
Douglas Katz, Medical Director of Brain Injury Programs at Braintree
Rehabilitation Hospital, Dr. Nicholas Schiff, Director of the Laboratory of
Cognitive Neuromodulation of Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Dr.
Joseph Fins, Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York
Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Center, Dr. Steven Laureys, Neurologue, Chef de
Clinique Associe, Universite de Liege, Belgium.
L to R back row: Michael Kaplen,
Esq., President of the Brain Injury Association of New York State, Ann M. Belcher,
CEO of Northeast Center for Special
Care, Dr. Richard Hodder,
Medical Director of Northeast Center for Special Care, DR. Victor Zelek,
Neuropsychologist, Northeast
Center for Special Care,
Dr. George Zitnay of the World Health Organization Director General’s
Panel of Experts in Neurotrauma, Anthony Salerno, President, Northeast
Center for Special Care, Dr. Steven Ashwal from the Department of Pediatrics at Loma
Linda University,
Dr. Nathan Zasler, Chairman of the International Brain Injury Association,
Dr. John Whyte, Director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Dr. Geoffrey
Miller, Yale University School of Medicine.
Not pictured: Jean Berube, Esq., a contract lobbyist for the National Brain Injury
Research, Treatment and Training Foundation, Dr. Joy
Hirsch of Columbia University Neurological Institute, Dr. Ikram Haque of Memorial Hospital, Dr. Kevin
Zitnay, Neurosurgeon, John
P. Murtha Neuroscience and Pain Institute.
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