Release date: October 10, 2022
This is part two in Talking About Kids’ three-part series on traumatic brain injury (TBI). In part one, Keith Owen Yeates explained what TBI is and why, as people who care about kids, we need to be so very concerned about it. This episode is about prevention, and there is no better person to speak to this topic than my guest, Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa, Senior Health Scientist on the Traumatic Brain Injury Team in the Division of Injury Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Juliet brings to the position over 30 years of experience and over 100 publications and presentations on TBI. More information about Juliet and links to her hand-picked TBI resources can be found below.
Biography of Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa
Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa, PhD, FACRM is a Senior Health Scientist on the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Team, in the Division of Injury Prevention (DIP), at NCIPC. As a health scientist, her role on the TBI team is to devise research projects and products to better understand trends in TBI in the U.S. and to improve health outcomes for individuals living with a TBI. She is project lead on the Report to Congress on the Management of Traumatic Brain Injury in Children, and a scientific collaborator for changing the culture in youth sports, clinical decision support, and return to school projects in the division.
Dr. Haarbauer-Krupa has over 30 years of experience and has authored over 100 publications and presentations in the area of TBI, with specialties in rehabilitation and pediatric populations. She currently holds an adjunct position in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University’s School of Medicine.
Links
CDC TBI Website
Heads UP Materials
Report to Congress on the Management of TBI in Children
Strategies to prevent TBI before it happens
Motor Vehicle Crashes
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