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Kristen Dams-O'Connor, PhD
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PROFESSOR | Rehabilitation and Human Performance
PROFESSOR | Neurology
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Psychology
Multi-Disciplinary Training Area
Neuroscience [NEU]
The Brain Injury Research Center of Mount Sinai
The Brain Injury Research Center of Mount Sinai (BIRC-MS) has a reputation for excellence in diagnosing and treating the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral symptoms resulting from traumatic brain injuries (TBI) as a result of investigators’ research. Our focus includes identifying, treating, and characterizing TBI through neuroimaging, biomarker discovery, and neuropathology, and our investigators have documented findings in more than 150 publications. Our Center is staffed by a group of researchers whose scientific and clinical accomplishments have been widely recognized and honored. For more than a decade, we have focused on studies that have broken new ground in assessing clinical interventions, developing psychometric instruments, describing key problems experienced by individuals with TBI, and incorporating an interdisciplinary approach to the study of long-term TBI outcomes. For a list of our current and completed research studies, please visit our website https://icahn.mssm.edu/research/brain-injury/research For contact information on a particular study, please call the main research line at 212-241-5152.

BA, Colgate University

PhD, University at Albany, State University of New York

Internship, Psychology, Cabrini Medical Center

2018

Fellow

American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (FACRM)

2018

Mitchell Rosenthal Award for Best Scientific Publication using the TBI Model System Database

National Institute for Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research, Washington DC.

2017

ACRM Mitchell Rosenthal Mid-Career Award

American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine

2017

Joshua B. Cantor Scholar Award

Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group of the ACRM.

2016

Mitchell Rosenthal Award for Best Scientific Publication using the TBI Model System Database

National Institute for Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research, Washington DC

2015

Mitchell Rosenthal Memorial Lecture

Brain Injury Association of America, Washington DC

2014

International Brain Injury Association Early Career Investigator Award

International Brain Injury Association

210
Publications

Selected Publications

Duration of Ice Hockey Play and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Bobak Abdolmohammadi, Fatima Tuz-Zahra, Madeline Uretsky, Raymond Nicks, Sydney Mosaheb, Jacob Labonte, Eukyung Yhang, Shruti Durape, Brett Martin, Joseph Palmisano, Christopher Nowinski, Jonathan D. Cherry, Victor E. Alvarez, Bertrand R. Huber, Kristen Dams-O'Connor, John Crary, Brigid Dwyer, Daniel H. Daneshvar, Lee E. Goldstein, Rhoda Au, Douglas I. Katz, Neil W. Kowall, Robert C. Cantu, Robert A. Stern, Michael L. Alosco, Thor D. Stein, Yorghos Tripodis, Ann C. McKee, Jesse Mez. JAMA network open

Bridging big data in the ENIGMA consortium to combine non-equivalent cognitive measures. Eamonn Kennedy, Shashank Vadlamani, Hannah M. Lindsey, Pui Wa Lei, Mary Jo-Pugh, Paul M. Thompson, David F. Tate, Frank G. Hillary, Emily L. Dennis, Elisabeth A. Wilde, Giovana B. Zunta-Soares, Lakshmi N. Yatham, Glenn R. Wylie, Mon Ju Wu, Adrian Wroblewski, Krista Wild, Lars T. Westlye, Emilio Werden, William C. Walker, Lucy Vivash, Elisabet Vilella, Guillermo Umpierrez, Kristine M. Ulrichsen, Jessica A. Turner, Maya Troyanskaya, Ivan Torres, Erin Tone, Sophia I. Thomopoulos, Florian Thomas-Odenthal, April Thames, Benjamin Straube, Frederike Stein, Alena Stasenko, Filip Španiel, Gianfranco Spalleta, Jair C. Soares, Andre Schmidt, Anne Marthe Sanders, Raymond Salvador, Nicholas P. Ryan, Jared Rowland, Kelly Rootes-Murdy, Mabel Rodriguez, Jonathan Rodriguez, Geneviève Richard, Jonathan Repple, Edith Pomarol-Clotet, Federica Piras, Fabrizio Piras, Kristen Dams-O’Connor. Scientific Reports

Cognitive, functional, and neuropsychiatric correlates of regional tau pathology in autopsy-confirmed chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Michael L. Alosco, Micaela White, Carter Bell, Farwa Faheem, Yorghos Tripodis, Eukyung Yhang, Zachary Baucom, Brett Martin, Joseph Palmisano, Kristen Dams-O’Connor, John F. Crary, Lee E. Goldstein, Douglas I. Katz, Brigid Dwyer, Daniel H. Daneshvar, Christopher Nowinski, Robert C. Cantu, Neil W. Kowall, Robert A. Stern, Victor E. Alvarez, Bertrand Russell Huber, Thor D. Stein, Ann C. McKee, Jesse Mez. Molecular Neurodegeneration

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Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.

Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Dams-O'Connor during 2023 and/or 2024. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.

Consulting or Other Professional Services Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership

  • Cohen & Green PLLC
  • Brownstone Law Group
  • MINDSET

Outside Employment

  • Tampa VA Research Foundation

Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.