IBIA & NABIS Upcoming Webinars

Stay at the forefront of brain injury research and care with the IBIA Webinar Series—featuring live, expert-led sessions from leading voices around the world. Explore upcoming webinars, register for sessions, and access detailed information on speakers and topics designed to inform and elevate your practice.

IBIA and NABIS members enjoy complimentary access to all live webinars, while non-members can register for $25 USD per session.

All registrants receive on-demand recordings following each event, with sessions becoming open access to the public after three months.

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Upcoming Webinars

Perturbing Consciousness: Multimodal Neuroimaging in the Numinous and on the Verge of Oblivion

Speaker: Naji Alnagger, PhD
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 11 AM EDT/5 PM CEST
Organized by the Disorders of Consciousness Special Interest Group

Neuroimaging can produce a wide range of structural and functional metrics, but their comparative clinical relevance remains unclear. The first part of this seminar will examine their diagnostic value in disorders of consciousness and consider how sedation influences functional measures. The second part will explore how we can engage multimodal neuroimaging in personalised whole-brain models as preclinical tools to evaluate potential treatments and probe their mechanisms. I will present results from a virtual clinical trial investigating the novel treatment approach of using psychedelics to increase the complexity of brain activity and discuss this therapeutic approach more generally. I will also present work using a similar modelling approach to investigate paradoxical responses to propofol sedation.

Speaker Information

Naji Alnagger, PhD, is a British Postdoctoral Researcher at the Coma Science Group in Liège, Belgium. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in neuroscience and psychopharmacology at University College London. He later joined the Coma Science Group in 2021 to begin his PhD where he uses multimodal neuroimaging and computational modelling in patients with disorders of consciousness and during altered states induced by anaesthetics and psychedelics. His work focuses on understanding the relationship between brain structure, functional dynamics, behavioural responsiveness and conscious experience.

Resilience Following Brain Injury Through a Social Cognitive Lens

Speaker: Dawn Neumann, PhD, FACRM
Date/Time: Thursday, October 8, 2026, 11 AM ET
Organized by the North American Brain Injury Association

Recovery from brain injury (BI) is highly variable, with resilience playing a critical role in outcomes. This presentation examines a process model of resiliency, highlighting how social cognitive impairments hinder resilience and place individuals with BI at risk for poorer outcomes. Attendees will be provided with targeted assessments and treatments to modify these deficits, fostering resilience and leading to optimal recovery after BI.

Speaker Information

Dawn Neumann, PhD, FACRM is a Research Scientist and Manager of Brain Injury Research at JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute. She has a PhD in Rehabilitation Science from SUNY Buffalo, NY and her MA in Psychology from Rutgers, NJ. Her research aims to advance the understanding and treatment of social cognition and emotion dysregulation deficits after traumatic brain injury. Currently, she is assisting with the conduct of the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy clinical trial in Veterans with traumatic brain injury, in addition to completing her own DoD clinical trial in service members and civilians with TBI, examining an intervention she developed to improve emotional awareness and psychological health. She serves on the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation editorial review board and she is an active member of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), where she has been honored as Fellow for her contributions to the organization. She has received several awards from ACRM for research work in brain injury, including the Deborah Wilkerson Award, Mitchell Rosenthal Award, and the Joshua Cantor Scholar Award.

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Recent Webinars

A Network-Level Approach to Non-Invasive Neural Stimulation for Severe Brain Injury

Speaker: Marie Vitello, PhD
Date /Time: Wednesday, June 17, 2026, 11:00am ET
Registration: Click here.
Organized by the Disorders of Consciousness Special Interest Group

This webinar will introduce a network-level framework for classifying, selecting, and comparing neural stimulation approaches in disorders of consciousness (DoC), providing an overview of the current landscape in the field. In the second part, findings from a randomized controlled trial on transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) in ICU patients with DoC will be presented, emphasizing its safety profile and clinical effects. Together, these elements aim to explore how these stimulations can be integrated into the care of patients with severe brain injury and contribute to the development of more targeted, patient-centered strategies.

Speaker Information
Dr. Marie Vitello is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and Research Fellow at the University of Liège, Belgium. She holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and a PhD in Medical Sciences. Her expertise focuses on the multimodal assessment of patients with severe brain injury and disorders of consciousness, as well as on experimental therapeutic approaches using non-invasive neural stimulation.

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Spasticity in Acquired Brain Injury: From Research Trends to Imaging-Based Prediction

Speakers: Salvatore Facciorusso, MD, and Stefania Spina, PhD, MD
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 11:00am ET
Registration: Event has passed.
Organized by the Disorders of Consciousness Special Interest Group

This webinar will provide a two-step perspective on spasticity in acquired brain injury, with a particular focus on post-stroke spasticity. In the first part, we will present an updated overview of the scientific landscape through a bibliometric analysis of Botulinum toxin type A research, highlighting major themes, evolving trends, and current gaps in literature. In the second part, we will move from research trends to clinical stratification, discussing how lesion characteristics and structural disconnectome measures may improve early prediction of spasticity after stroke. Together, these topics aim to connect the evolution of the field with emerging strategies for more individualized prognostic assessment and management.

Speaker Information

Dr. Stefania Spina is a Specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Policlinico Riuniti in Foggia, Italy. She holds a PhD in Innovative Science and Technologies for Health, focusing her expertise on neurorehabilitation and spasticity management. Her research combines advanced diagnostics with therapeutic analysis, with recent work investigating predictive models based on lesion characteristics and the structural disconnectome in post-stroke spasticity.

Dr. Salvatore Facciorusso is a Specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Policlinico Riuniti in Foggia, Italy. He holds a Master’s degree in Technologies for Innovations in Rehabilitation Medicine and Care and has collaborated with the National Research Council of Italy. His expertise lies in the management of patients with spasticity, with a specific focus on instrumental evaluations and advanced therapeutic approaches. In this webinar, he will present an updated bibliometric analysis of Botulinum Toxin Type A research in spasticity.