Dr. Robin Green is the Saunderson Family Chair in Acquired Brain Injury, and formerly the Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in traumatic brain injury cognitive neurorehab sciences. She is a Senior Scientist in cognitive neurosciences at KITE-University Health Network, and a Clinical Neuropsychologist by professor. She is also a Professor, Psychiatry, at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. Green’s program of research addresses brain and behavioural mechanisms of recovery from TBI, and the development of treatments to improve outcomes. Her lab has helped to better understand impediments to recovery, challenging prevailing assumptions of moderate-severe TBI as a static disorder in the chronic stages of injury, and reconceptualizing TBI as deteriorative – where early recovery of brain and behaviour may be followed by declines in the months and years post-injury. Encouragingly, the lab has identified novel, modifiable treatment targets, and has been using these findings to develop interventions for mitigation of decline and improvement of clinical outcome.

Dr. Green and colleagues founded the KITE TeleNeuroRehab Centre for Acquired Brain Injury, which provides clinical services to patients across Ontario, and studies the enduring effects of brain injuries. Patients across the province and beyond receive remotely delivered assessments and interventions (pro bono). This addresses a considerable gap in current treatment and provides access to treatment for patients regardless of their geographic location or any mobility restrictions. The Centre was designed to further our understanding of accelerated aging in neurological populations and to advance the development of non-invasive neurological treatments.

In addition to founding and providing global oversight of the KITE Centre, Dr. Green founded and co-Leads ECHO Concussion, as well as the Global Mentorship Program of the International Neuropsychological Society. She is also a co-lead of the Schroeder Brain Institute at UHN.

Dr. Green completed her PhD at Cambridge University, her post-doctoral training at the St. Guy’s and St. Thomas’s Hospital in London, England and her clinical neuropsychology training at the UHN in Toronto