Traumatic Brain Injury: Classification, management, and sequelae

Speaker: Patricia Garcia

This presentation focused on adult patients will provide an explanation of the different mechanisms of injury, how severity is classified, ICU management of moderate/severe TBIs, tools for tracking recovery, and neuropsychological sequelae as it applies to cognitive and personality/behavioral domains. Neuroanatomical correlates will be highlighted when discussing the most commonly seen neurocognitive deficits.

Patricia Garcia, PsyD, HSPP is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation who specializes in the neurocognitive and psychiatric assessment of adult populations. Clinically, Dr.

Garcia evaluates a variety of adult patients with acquired and neurodegenerative diseases affecting cognition and personality. Her research interests include cognitive aging after a brain injury, neuropsychiatric sequelae following brain lesions, and cultural adaptations of psychological/behavioral interventions addressing neuropsychiatric symptoms. She graduated from Albizu University in Miami FL with a concentration in neuropsychology, and went on to complete internship and fellowship training in neuropsychology at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine and Jackson Memorial Hospital where she received extensive training on the neurocognitive assessment of trauma populations, including brain injury and stroke, both at acute/inpatient settings at the nation-renowned Ryder Trauma Center, and outpatient clinics. Dr. Garcia is past chair of Culture and Diversity Task Force in Traumatic Brain Injury from the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and is current faculty with the Outreach Recruitment and Engagement (OREC) core of the Indiana Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (IADRC).