PRESENTER

Donna Langenbahn, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor, Coordinator
Rusk Rehabilitation / NYU Langone Health

BIO

Donna M. Langenbahn, PhD is Clinical Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and Coordinator of Outpatient Psychology Services, Rusk Rehabilitation, NYU Langone Health.

She has worked in the area of acquired brain injury (ABI) for over 40 years, and has presented locally, nationally, and internationally. From 1991 through 2012, she was a member of an NIH-funded Rusk research team exploring the treatment of deficits in executive functioning and problem solving following mild to moderate TBI and ABI.

She is a contributing author/co-author of the ACRM-published Cognitive Rehabilitation Manual: Translating Evidence-based Recommendations into Practice, and lead author of three chapters in the Cognitive Rehabilitation Manual and Textbook, 2nd edition.

She is co-author on five published evidence-based reviews of the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation in treating cognitive impairment after TBI, stroke, and other medical conditions that affect cognition. She has worked extensively with Rusk interdisciplinary colleagues in assessing and treating individuals with all severity ranges of ABI.