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Instructor
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dr. Raj Kumar is a neuroepidemiologist and incoming Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is also a core faculty member in the Brain Injury Research Center at Mount Sinai. He obtained his MPH in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale School of Public Health in 2013, and PhD in Neuroepidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2018. Dr. Kumar is an expert in the application of advanced epidemiological methods to neurological populations, particularly TBI. Dr. Kumar has co-authored over 50 original research articles, reviews, and book chapters in TBI, and has presented his research nationally and internationally in scientific meetings. Dr. Kumar recently received a K99/R00 Career Development Award from the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research at NICHD/NIH. Dr. Kumar is the Early Career Officer of ACRM's Brain Injury Special Interest Group. He is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, and is also co-chair of the VA Collaborative SIG of the TBI Model Systems National Database.