James Miller - #5Thoughts Flashback: Bells, Bars, and Bumbershoots.
Release Date: 08/01/2022
Victor Pablo Acero, PhD - #5Thoughts Flashback: Science, Seafood, and Story
Brain Injury Connector
Victor is 6th Year Bioengineering PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in the Cullen Lab, affiliated with the Center for Neurotrauma, Neurodegeneration and Restoration at the CMJC Veterans Hospital and UPenn’s Center for Brain Injury and Repair. Correction, he has graduated and has his PhD. He is also the Co-Founder and Associate Director for the Penn Psychedelics Collaborative, a multi-school consortium of faculty, researchers, clinicians, and graduate students dedicated to research, education and community engagement in the psychedelic field. He is also a Co-Founder and Advisor for the...
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John Wood - #5Thoughts Flashback: Covid, Connectivity, and Combat
Brain Injury Connector
John Wood is an artist living and working in Detroit, Michigan. John was diagnosed with a memory impairment and retired from teaching in 2014 at the age of 45. He has volunteered extensively with organizations worldwide that promote the arts in dementia care. John lives with his wife Carol and their son Julian. For more information you can visit or call the free helpline at 1-800-221-6443. Disclaimer: This podcast is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute endorsement of treatments, individuals, or programs which appear herein. Any...
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Walter Kilcullen - #5Thoughts Flashback: Harris, Human, and Harriet
Brain Injury Connector
Walter was born and raised in Kearny, New Jersey, a suburb of New York City with a population of about 60,000. He liked everything about the town and Kearny High School. The town was ethnically diverse, as was Kearny High School. He did reasonably well academically and played basketball and baseball all four years. One day a nurse came up to him and told him about a mentoring program offered by the Brain Injury Alliance of New Jersey. After a training session, he became Sandy’s mentor along with five others. After 20 years he is still helping Sandy, who is now 59. What does a mentor do?...
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Your Brain Injury Recovery Team Durga Roy, MD - #5Thoughts Flashback: Discovered, Department, and Disliked
Brain Injury Connector
Durga Roy is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Medical Director of the Johns Hopkins Neuropsychiatry and Brain Injury Clinic, and Head Injury Outpatient Psychiatric Day Program. She is the Director of Education for the Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Internship and the Director for the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is board-certified in general adult psychiatry, and consult-liaison psychiatry and behavioral neurology/neuropsychiatry. She has authored...
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Aaron Avila - #5Thoughts Flashback: Survey, Scientist, and Stroke
Brain Injury Connector
Aaron Avila had a Brain Aneurysm rupture on September 17, 2010, and after surviving certain death from the aneurysm, two weeks later, he suffered a stroke. Stroke symptoms include F-Face drooping A-Arm weakness S-Slurred Speech T-Time Equals Brain Loss so call 911 FAST! Other symptoms may include difficulties with walking, balance issues. If you have any questions, email him at Aaron's Facebook Page - For more information you can visit or call the free helpline at 1-800-221-6443. Disclaimer: This podcast is provided for informational purposes only...
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Laura Morgan - #5Thoughts Flashback: Maria, Mind, and Mia
Brain Injury Connector
In 2012, after Laura Morgan earned her master’s in Speech-language Pathology, she started her clinical fellowship in Frederick, Maryland. Halfway through the fellowship, Laura was a buckled passenger in a serious motor vehicle accident. She sustained a moderate-severe brain injury in the accident, but as a result of the long rehab process, gained a unique perspective on head injury as a Certified Brain Injury Specialist for the field of Speech Pathology. Laura has shared her clinical reflections from being both a provider and a recipient of this discipline in articles and over thirty...
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Richard Zorowitz, MD - #5Thoughts Flashback: Learning, Lost, and Lao
Brain Injury Connector
Richard D. Zorowitz, M.D. is a graduate of the Tulane University School of Medicine. He completed an internship in internal medicine at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY, and a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, IL. He is board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spinal Cord Injury Medicine, and Brain Injury Medicine. Dr. Zorowitz focuses his clinical activities on the rehabilitation of stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and other neurological...
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Luke Johnson - #5Thoughts Flashback: Hyperbaric, Happiness, and Hanson
Brain Injury Connector
Luke Johnson sustained a TBI in a car accident in May 1989. He was 19. After years of refusing to acknowledge any limitations due to the brain injury, he is coming to terms with increasingly common challenges - short term memory problems and multiple job losses are among the most frustrating symptoms he is experiencing. For more information you can visit or call the free helpline at 1-800-221-6443. Disclaimer: This podcast is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute endorsement of treatments, individuals, or programs which appear herein. Any...
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Meet the BIAMD: Lauren Leffler - #5Thoughts Flashback: Schwarzenegger, Super Agers, and Scarcity
Brain Injury Connector
Lauren Leffler owns and operates a small family law and trusts and estates law firm in Howard County, Maryland. Her and her team help individuals and families through complex divorces, custodial disputes, probate processes, and with guardianship matters. In addition to being a zealous advocate, she is also a trained mediator, parent coordinator, and child advocate. Outside of her professional life, Lauren is a Howard County native, residing in Ellicott City with her husband, daughter, three stepchildren, and two dogs. In her free time, she indulges in painting, traveling, and...
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Maria Garcia- #5Thoughts Flashback: Franklin, Function, and Fellowship.
Brain Injury Connector
Maria is a unique type of leader who subtly, yet powerfully influences others by modeling. In college, she double majored in Finance & International Business and spent her earliest years working in corporate. Now, she is the author of Breaking Into the Light, A Journey of Self-Discovery and Transformation which she wrote after a massive stroke turned her life upside down. After a recovery that lasted years, she discovered a food methodology that works and today passionately coaches WILDFIT® to help others in their own transformation by sharing with them how to reset their relationship...
info_outlineJames "Jim Jim" Miller suffered a TBI on July 18, 2014.
Join us as we learn how he has used creativity and positivity to overcome the challenges.
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#5ThoughtsFriday Flashback: Bells, Bars, and Bumbershoots.
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