Mayo Clinic, Collaborators Receive Grant to Study Use of Electronic Media in Treating Traumatic Brain Injury

Mayo Clinic and collaborators — including the Departments of Health in Minnesota and Iowa, Regional Health in South Dakota and Sanford Health in North Dakota — have received a $2.2 million federal grant to test new ways to offer specialized traumatic brain injury (TBI) care, with a focus on reaching rural areas and underserved urban populations that don’t have access to brain rehabilitation specialists.

“We know early intervention and longitudinal care give people the best chance to minimize or prevent lasting effects of TBI, but that’s not always easy or feasible,” says Mayo Clinic physiatrist Allen Brown, MD, director of brain rehabilitation research and principal investigator of the five-year study. “Our goal is to test a model of care that delivers specialized brain rehabilitation resources to patients and providers in underserved locations. We believe this is the first study of this scope — four states, three health systems and two state departments of health — using electronic technology to improve care with no face-to-face contact.” For more information, click here to read the full release.