Professor
Indiana University School of Medicine
Flora McConnell Hammond, M.D., FACRM, FAAPMR, is board certified in PM&R and Brain Injury Medicine. She is Professor and Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Indiana University School of Medicine and Chief of Medical Affairs at the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana. In addition to serving these administrative roles, she has an active clinical rehabilitation practice (general rehabilitation and brain injury) and funded research (brain injury and spinal cord injury). Her extensive research experience includes serving as a Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Project Director since 1998, and she currently serves at the chair of the TBI Model Systems Executive Committee Chairperson. Her research focuses on improving long-term TBI outcomes. She co-chairs the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Chronic Brain Injury Task Force, chairs TBI Model Systems Chronic Brain Injury Special Interest Group, serves on Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation and Journal of Neurotrauma editorial boards, and authored >230 peer-reviewed publications. Honors include: Association of Academic Physiatrists Young Academician Award, Brain Injury Association of America William Caveness Award, the Robert L. Moody Prize, AAPMR Distinguished Member award, and the Rosenthal Memorial lecture award.