Professor, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School
Spaulding Rehabilitation/Harvard Medical School
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 and Adjunct Professor in the Rehabilitation Sciences Doctoral Program at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. 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 research is aimed at developing high precision neurodiagnostic procedures, multidimensional clinical outcome assessment approaches and targeted therapeutic interventions for persons with severe acquired brain injury and disorders of consciousness. He is a Principal Investigator/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. 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.