Dr. Risa Richardson is a Professor in the Departments of Neurosurgery in the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida. She also serves as the Chief of Staff for Research and Development at the Tampa VA. Dr. Richardson has worked in neurorehabilitation in both clinical and research capacities since 1998. She is a Fellow of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and National Academy of Neuropsychology. She currently has 180 peer-reviewed publications including 3 clinical guidelines and position statements endorsed by the American Academy of Neurology and American Congress of Rehabilitation representing translation of her work. She has served as Guest Editor on four special issues on topics of sleep and TBI, disorders of consciousness, rehabilitation outcomes of military TBI, and TBI and Implementation Science. She is Associate Editor of Brain Injury Medicine, 3rd edition and has over 350 presentations at international and national conferences. Dr. Richardson has served as PI or Investigator on 24 grants funded by various federal agencies and private organizations including VA, DOD, PCORI, NIH, NIDILRR, and NAN. She currently serves as the overall PI for the only DOD Focused Program Award using implementation science and community-based participatory research to improve the quality of healthcare for people with TBI-related disability (https:\\iheal.tbindsc.org).