Dr Mitchell Rosenthal's expert leadership of Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation (JHTR) motivated our desire to select an experienced and respected leader to become our new Editor. Sandy Kasko, Publisher, and editors Bruce Caplan and I are very pleased to inform the readership that Dr John D. Corrigan, a long-time board member and special features editor, has been appointed Editor of the JHTR. Enthusiastic feedback from our Editorial Board was highly instrumental in helping us make the decision to attract John, and we are most thankful to the Editorial Board for their input and support.
John is Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Ohio State University and Director of the Ohio Valley Center for Brain Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation. He is the Project Director for the Ohio Regional Traumatic Brain Injury Model System and also directs the "TBI Network" of community-based services for substance abuse after brain injury. John has served on the Advisory Committee to the National Center on Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is a former member of the boards of directors of both the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities and the Brain Injury Association of America. He has served the American Psychological Association (APA) in many capacities including president of the Division of Rehabilitation Psychology and as co-chair of the APA's Committee for the Advancement of Professional Practice. John has received many awards for his service and research including the Brain Injury Association of America's William Fields Caveness Award and the 2007 Robert L. Moody Prize for Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury Research and Rehabilitation.
John has already infused us and impressed us with his energy, expertise, and creativity as he begins his new editorial role. We look forward to harnessing John's enormous intellectual strengths on behalf of the readership of JHTR. We would also like our readers to know that Dr Mitchell Rosenthal's name will be added to the Editorial Board page of each future JHTR issue as a Founding Editor alongside the name of Dr Sheldon Berrol, Mitch's co-founder and long-standing, admired friend.
Nathaniel H. Mayer, MD, Editor