Meet the 2024 The Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
Award for Science Awardee
Dr. Carrie Esopenko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She is also adjunct faculty at the Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion Center in the Department of Neurology at the University of Utah and in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She is the principal investigator of a National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke R01-funded study examining the effects of IPV-related head trauma. She also leads the Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Working Group, a global collaboration seeking to examine the effects of IPV-related brain injury, and is the co-founder and co-lead of the ENIGMA Global Knowledge Exchange Network, with a mission to provide a safe space for service providers to share their lived experiences and knowledge to help urgently accelerate the global education, support, clinical care, and knowledge translation for IPV-related brain injury (IPV-BI). Dr. Esopenko is also the lead organizer of the ENIGMA IPV and Pink Concussions IPV-BI annual conference, which brings together service providers and researchers to improve access to care and knowledge of the effects of IPV-BI. She is also a co-PI for Rutgers University’s involvement in the Ivy League/Big Ten Epidemiology of Concussion Study and is a Big Ten PI on the Study Advisory Committee.