Marilyn F. Kraus MD

Marilyn F. Kraus, MD, is director of the Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship Program of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital/MedStar National Rehabilitation Network. A widely recognized expert in traumatic brain injury (TBI), Dr. Kraus is interested in the use of neuropharmacology to improve neurobehavioral and cognitive outcomes after TBI and has published original reports on the use of diffusion tensor imaging and oculomotor assessment in TBI. Besides providing care in the outpatient TBI clinic, she is involved in the inpatient units and is helping to develop the Concussion Program. Marilyn F. Kraus, MD, is director of the Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship Program of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital/MedStar National Rehabilitation Network. A widely recognized expert in traumatic brain injury (TBI), Dr. Kraus is interested in the use of neuropharmacology to improve neurobehavioral and cognitive outcomes after TBI and has published original reports on the use of diffusion tensor imaging and oculomotor assessment in TBI. Besides providing care in the outpatient TBI clinic, she is involved in the inpatient units and is helping to develop the Concussion Program.

Dr. Kraus is a recent past medical director of the TBI Consult Section as part of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center's inpatient acute polytrauma team. In that position, she worked closely with injured servicemen and women and their families. She also has served as medical director of the Neuropsychiatry Programs at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago and has held faculty positions at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. She has been active in developing and improving services for people with brain injury throughout her more than 20-year career and was nominated for the Henry B. Betts Award for her work with TBI patients and their families.