David Arciniegas

Chairman, IBIA Board of Governors

Dr. Arciniegas is Director of Education for the Marcus Institute for Brain Health and Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colorado and Physician Research Scientist at Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colorado. His clinical work and patient-oriented research focus on the cognitive and non-cognitive neuropsychiatric sequelae of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other neurological disorders. He has authored 125 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, contributed more than 40 book chapters to medical neuroscience and neurorehabilitation textbooks, and has served as an editor on seven medical textbooks. He is Editor of the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Associate Editor of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, and a member of multiple journal editorial boards, including Brain Injury. He has delivered more than 275 scientific lectures in the United States and abroad on a broad range of topics in neuropsychiatry and neurorehabilitation. In addition to multiple institutional awards for teaching and research excellence, he received the 2000 Young Investigator Award from the Brain Injury Association of America; the 2015 Mitch Rosenthal Award for Scientific and Clinical Achievement in Brain Injury Rehabilitation from Virginia Commonwealth University and Brain Injury Services, Inc; and the 2016 Innovative Clinical Treatment Award from the North American Brain Injury Society. Dr. Arciniegas has previously served as Chair and CEO of the International Brain Injury Association and contributes his efforts to governmental and non-governmental organizations striving to improve the lives of persons and families affected by brain injuries.