Staff

SARA MILLER, OTR/L, CBIS

Project Manager

Program manager for ICTBI. She is an occupational therapist and certified brain injury specialist with 10+ years of clinical experience treating children and adults with TBI as well as other neurological disorders. She is currently completing her post-professional clinical doctorate program in occupational therapy and has completed specialized training in remedial vision rehabilitation (RVR) with acquired brain injury emphasis.

Medical Advisors

DALLAS HACK, MD, MPH

Former Director, DOD Combat Casualty Care Research

Responsible for over 600 DOD TBI projects . 
Co-author 2013 National Research Action Plan directed to solve fundamental problems in TBI.
Adjunct Professor at University of Pittsburgh and Associate Clinical Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University. 

DAVID E. ROSS, MD

Director of the Virginia Institute of Neuropsychiatry

Clinical Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
Developer of NeuroGage®, FDA-cleared MRI brain volumetry software that extends the utility of NeuroQuant® assessments for patients with traumatic brain injury.

JOHN E. MEYERS, PSY.D., ABN, ABPDN

Practicing Neuropsychologist

Retired advisor to the Department of Defense regarding traumatic brain injury.
Developer of multiple neuropsychological tests including the Rey Complex Figure and Recognition Trial test.
Founder and creator of the Meyers Neuropsychological Battery/System and related databases.

GREGORY J O'SHANICK, MD

Practicing Neuropsychiatrist

Medical Director of the Center for Neurorehabilitation Services in Richmond, Virginia. Inaugural Medical director for the Brain Injury Association of America. Founding Board Governor of the Academy for Certification of Brain Injury Specialists. Authored more than 100 publications; edited/co-edited three textbooks.

CAROL V. ANDERSON, PhD, ABPP-CN

djunct Professor at Brigham Young University – Idaho and an Assistant Professor at Weber State University.

Specializes in forensic neuropsychology and acquired brain injury evaluations both TBI and Hypoxic/Anoxic Encephalopathy.

Directors

MR. RICHARD SANDBERG

Executive Director and a founder of ICTBI.

Mr. Richard Sandberg has served as Chairman and/or a key officer of a number of successful healthcare companies including DIANON Systems, Inc.; Lifecodes Corporation; Matritech, Inc.; and Oxford Immunotec Global PLC . He has been asked and has agreed to serve as Acting CEO of our first project for chronic TBI.

DR. LLOYD SABERSKI

Assistant Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine Yale University School of Medicine

Dr. Lloyd Saberski has a specialty in palliative and supportive care. He is also the founder and CEO of Advanced Diagnostic Pain Treatment Centers, New Haven, CT.

REV. DR. WILLIAM G. MESSENGER

Executive Editor of The Theology of Work Project

Rev. Dr. William G. Messenger has been a director of pharmaceutical and healthcare companies most recently, serving as a director of Arqule, Inc. which was recently acquired by Merck & Co., Inc. He is the Executive Editor of The Theology of Work Project (theologyofwork.org), an independent, international, not-for-profit organization which has developed the deepest and largest source of biblical, theological, and pastoral material related to work.

MR. THOMAS E. KNUDSEN

Former Chief Executive Officer of Philadelphia Gas

Mr. Thomas E. Knudsen has had a long-standing involvement with issues of the brain and a career that spanned both the private sector and public institutions. Prior to his retirement, he served for over 10 years as the Chief Executive Officer of Philadelphia Gas, one of the country’s few utilities owned by a large metromarket municipality. Prior to that assignment, he was Founder and President of the Woodside Group, Inc., a management consulting company in Stamford, Connecticut.

MR. ROGER M. WIDMANN

Mr. Roger M. Widmann has a 40+ year career on Wall Street as a venture capitalist and investment banker, ultimately as the head of investment banking at Chemical Bank, a predecessor of JPMorgan Chase. He was a founder and CEO of First Reserve Corporation, the pioneer energy investing firm in the US, with over $20 Billion under management. In addition to serving as a director of 6 public companies, he was a senior moderator of the Executive Seminar at the Aspen Institute for 20 years.