Yelena Bodien PhD

Dr. Bodien is a Research Scientist in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. She is using advanced neuroimaging techniques and standardized neurobehavioral assessment to improve diagnostic and prognostic precision, treatment efficacy, and functional outcomes in acute and chronic stages of recovery from severe brain injury.

Dr. Bodien is a member of the James S. McDonnell Coma and Consciousness Consortium which is developing the largest, international, database of advanced neuroimaging and electrophysiological studies of disorders of consciousness. She is also a member of the Outcomes Core for the Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury (TRACK-TBI) initiative which is collecting clinical data, neuroimaging, blood biospecimens, and detailed outcomes on 3000 subjects across the US to phenotype TBI and promote discovery of successful TBI interventions. Dr. Bodien is an active member of the American Congress for Rehabilitation Medicine and is co-leading a project in the Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group that is developing a case definition for the Post Traumatic Confusional State.