Professor
James A. Haley Veterans Hospital & University of South Florida
Dr. Risa Nakase-Richardson is the Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development at the Tampa VA. She has a dual appointment at the University of South Florida where she is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the Morsani College of Medicine, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine Division. She also serves as the Senior Clinical Research Director for one of the ten Defense Health Agency TBI Centers of Excellence (DHA TBI COE) at the Tampa VA. Dr. Richardson has worked in neurorehabilitation in both clinical and research capacities since 1998. She is a Fellow of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and National Academy of Neuropsychology. She currently has 169 peer-reviewed publications including 3 clinical guidelines and position statements endorsed by the American Academy of Neurology and American Congress of Rehabilitation representing translation of her work. She has served as Guest Editor on four special issues on topics of sleep and TBI, disorders of consciousness, and rehabilitation outcomes of military TBI including an upcoming issue on TBI and Implementation Science. She is Associate Editor of Brain Injury Medicine, 3rd edition and has over 333 presentations at international and national conferences. Dr. Richardson has served as PI or Investigator on 22 grants funded by various federal agencies and private organizations including VA, DOD, PCORI, NIH, NIDILRR, and NAN. She currently serves as the overall PI for the only DOD Focused Program Award using implementation science and community-based participatory research to improve the quality of healthcare for persons with TBI-related disability (https:\\iheal.tbindsc.org).
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