As I stated in my previous blog entry, I recently received the newest issue of Brain Injury Professional. This issue is devoted to addressing pediatrics and traumatic brain injury. We are fortunate that Dr. Roberta DePompei agreed to serve as guest editor of this wonderful issue. As Dr. DePompei aptly writes “Despite the fact that, annually, over 200,000 Americans become disabled from a traumatic brain injury, it is an ‘orphan’ disease-largely ignored by the public and the medical field-and if adult tbi is an orphan, than child tbi is the orphan of the orphan.” As Dr. DePompei writes, “This issue of Brain Injury Professional focuses on innovative ideas that can influence how children are supported after a tbi.”
I urge everyone in the field of assisting adults and children with acquired traumatic brain injury to become a member of NABIS, obtain this wonderful magazine and attend NABIS’ medical and legal conferences which this year are scheduled to take place in San Antonio, Texas from September , 2007.
Dr. DePompei, Dr. Savage and Chas Haines are to be congratulated once again for putting out another wonderful issue of Brain Injury Professional.