Brain Injury Association of Oklahoma
About the Brain Injury Association of Oklahoma
A STATE CHAPTER OF THE BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Mission Statement
The mission of the Brain Injury Association of Oklahoma, Inc. is to create a better future through brain injury prevention, research, education and advocacy.The Brain Injury Association of Oklahoma was first organized in 1980 as the Oklahoma Head Injury Foundation. It was reorganized 1997 and is a private, not-for-profit corporation serving persons with traumatic/acquired brain injuries (TBI/ABI), their families, professionals and the community. This Association is a state chapter affiliate of the national Brain Injury Association, Inc.
Our Corporate Members
Sarah's Hope Foundation, Inc.
Our Board of Directors
Officers:
President: Carla Tanner, Ph.D.
Vice-President: Michael Mason, CBIS
Treasurer: Joan Gass
Secretary: Jess King
Karen Bryan, OTR is a clinical manager at the brain injury unit at INTEGRIS Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Hospital. Karen facilitates a monthly brain injury support group and coordinates a couple’s camp for brain injury survivors and their spouse. She is also a family member to a survivor of a brain injury.
Randy Buettner is a survivor of a brain injury.
Paul Cooper, PhD, CRC is a licensed psychologist and full-time faculty member at Northeastern State University. He has over 20 years of experience in mental health.
Hannah R. Conly, MS, LPC is a Program Director of Case Management and Therapy Services for Family and Children Services of Oklahoma.
Rod Davidson coordinates the Oklahoma City Brain Injury Support Group and is a survivor of a brain injury. After vocational rehabilitation he now works as a computer programmer for the Oklahoma Department of Human Services. He serves as a Governor appointee to the Oklahoma Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Advisory Council, which helps ensure that all websites produced by or for Oklahoma state agencies are accessible to persons with disabilities.
Mary Dobbs, BSN, RN, CRRN is an internal rehabilitation case manager at Comprehensive Community Rehabilitation Services. She also coordinates the Tulsa area brain injury support group.
Katy Downing is a therapist at Valir Rehabilitation Hospital.
Leslie M. Gainer, Esq. is an attorney licensed in Massachusetts and Oklahoma. She graduated from Tufts University and obtained her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1986, where she concentrated her studies in Health Care Law. She completed internships at New York State Attorney General for Medicaid Fraud Control in New York, NY, The Legal Services Center, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (Social Security Disability division), the Social Security Administration, (Regional Office, Boston) and private health care law firms in Boston. She was in-house counsel for one of the nation’s pioneering brain injury rehabilitation companies from 1987-1993. In 1993 she began her private practice, working on behalf of providers seeking reimbursement from commercial and public funding sources.
Joan Gass is a family member to a survivor of a brain injury.
Tracy Grammer, MS, CCC-SLP, is a therapist at OU Health and Sciences Center. She has previously served as president of the BIAOK and coordinates camps for survivors of brain injury.
Sgt. Shane Hannaford is a veteran of U.S. Marine Corps and recipient of the Purple Heart. He also survived a blast-related brain injury.
Natalie Hartgrave, M. Ed, CCC-SLP, is a speech pathologist at the Ernest Childers VA Outpatient Clinic as a part of the TBI Polytrauma Team for the Operation Iraqi Freedom & Operation Enduring Freedom veterans. She has worked as a speech pathologist for 15 years in neurorehabilitation, with 10 years at St. Francis Rehab.
Brad Hendrix is a clinical evaluator for Oklahoma Neurospecialty.
Jess King is an accountant at SemGroup, and wife of Wesley King, who sustained a brain injury in 2008. Jess is also a freelance writer.
Cynthia Kuehn, RN, CM, is a clinical nurse case manager for the TBI Polytrauma Program at the Jack Montgomery VAMC.
Gale Largent is family member to a survivor of a brain injury.
Frank Letcher, MD is a neurosurgeon (retired) with over 25 years of practice in Oklahoma. He was also an an originator and sponsor of the Tulsa Zelenograd Medical Exchange Program with the University of Oklahoma. He is the former Chief Investigator in the head injury laboratory at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. He is also the founder of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra and served as its president and CEO from 2005-2007.
April Lewis, MS, CCC-SLP, is a speech language pathologis and has worked as a program representative and clinical evaluator at Oklahoma NeuroSpecialty for nine years. She is also a member of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association as well as the Case Management Society of America.
Frank D. Lewis, PhD, CBIST serves as VP and COO of Specialized Health Services of Oklahoma, Inc. (including Oklahoma NeuroSpecialty). Dr. Lewis has over 25 years in the healthcare field that includes various rehabilitation research and teaching positions with a number of brain injury rehabilitation organizations and has published in a number of journals.
Michael Mason, CBIS, is a brain injury projects manager at Brookhaven Hospital and a board member on the Academy of Certified Brain Injury Specialists. He is also the author of Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath.
Traci McDaniel is a family member to a survivor of a brain injury. Her daughter Katelyn had her injury in 2003, has had a great recovery, and is attending college as a full time student.
Kathryn Packell is the Student Director of the Center for Community Research and Development (CCRD) at the University of Tulsa.
Connor Raus is the owner of CRKWD, a digital ad agency based in Tulsa. Raus maintains over 20 accounts that include a diverse range of businesses, including non-profits.
Carla Tanner, PhD, is the Director of the Tulsa Area Alliance on Disabilities at the Community Service Council. She is also the parent of two adult children with acquired brain injuries.
Marey Wall is a caregiver and mother to her son Ryan, who has a brain injury.
Michael Wilcox operates a business providing assistive mobility devices to people with brain injury.
For more information, contact the Brain Injury Association of America
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