Members

Dr. Robin Green is the Saunderson Chair in Acquired Brain Injury, a Senior Scientist, co-lead of the Schroeder Brain Institute and head of the Cognitive NeuroRehab Sciences Lab and the KITE TeleNeuroRehab Centre for ABI at the KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehab-University Health Network. She is also a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Robin Green’s program of research addresses brain and behavioural mechanisms of recovery from traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the development of mechanism-based treatments to enhance recovery. Her lab has shown that in addition to beneficial mechanisms that support recovery, there are deleterious mechanisms in the sub-acute and chronic stages of injury giving rise to cognitive and neural deterioration. Dr. Green’s lab is focused on re-conceptualizing TBI as a chronic and neurodegenerative disease process, at least in the early months and years post-injury; this novel conception opens new avenues of treatment, including the identification of modifiable treatment targets to offset degeneration. For example, Dr. Green’s lab has discovered that post-injury, elevated anxiety and insufficient cognitive stimulation are associated with progressive hippocampal volume losses, and thus represent novel targets for treatment. A converging program of research concerns chronic traumatic encephalopathy – another progressive disorder secondary to TBI, but the result of multiple mild events. Based on the lab’s basic research findings, and the well-known gap in clinical care for patients in the chronic stages of all acquired brain injuries, Dr. Green founded the KITE TeleNeurorehab Centre for Acquired Brain Injury, which provides pro bono, remotely delivered clinical care to patients across Ontario in the chronic stages of ABI. The Centre is fully integrated with training, and with research. This clinical and translational research focuses on the development of novel interventions to offset neural degeneration and on precision medicine customizations as well as adaptations for remote, group-based delivery of tried-and-true cognitive and mental health treatments.

Dr. Green also founded and co-Chairs the Global Mentorship Program in collaboration with the International Neuropsychological Society.

Other appointments: Associate Member at the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, the Institute of Medical Science and the Collaborative Program in Neuroscience (CPIN), University of Toronto. She is also an Associate Member at the Graduate Department of Psychological Clinical Science, University of Toronto Scarborough.