Jennie Ponsford
Australian neuroscience researcher
Jennie Louise Ponsford is an Australian neuroscience researcher at Monash University, Victoria who works on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Ponsford is a clinical neuropsychologist, whose work is focused on developing a deeper understanding of the negative consequences of TBI, particularly those related to fatigue, sleep disturbance, attentional, memory and executive problems, psychiatric and behavioural disturbances and sexuality, and the development of rehabilitation interventions to improve long term recovery and quality of life in individuals with TBI.
Ponsford is Director of the Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre, the aim of which is to conduct research in trauma rehabilitation, with a view to reducing long-term disability. She is also a founding member of the Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research (established in 2009), a collaborative initiative of the Victorian WorkCover Authority, the Transport Accident Commission and Monash University, devoted to promoting research and best practice in injury prevention, rehabilitation and compensation. In partnership with the Department of Human Services, she has created information resources for adults and children with mild traumatic brain injury.
Early life and education
Ponsford has a Bachelor of Arts, with honours in Psychology, a Masters in Clinical Neuropsychology and a PhD. She worked as a clinical neuropsychologist in Sydney before returning to Melbourne, taking up a position at the Epworth Hospital as Head of Psychology. She commenced work at Monash University in 1999. She established a doctoral program in neuropsychology at Monash University. In 2000 she commenced as Director of the Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre.
Work
Ponsford has spent the last 42 years working the field of traumatic brain injury. She currently co-ordinates one of the world's largest longitudinal outcome studies, which is tracking more than 3000 patients over 30 years following a traumatic brain injury.
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