Associate Professor and Co-Director, Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion Center, Department of Neurology, University of Utah
Dr. Carrie Esopenko is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion Center in the Department of Neurology at the University of Utah. She is also a part-time Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Her research focuses on understanding the effects of neurotrauma and mental health conditions across populations, identifying methods for improving brain injury prevention and outcomes, and developing patient-specific and community-based intervention strategies for trauma-exposed populations. She is the Lead Investigator of the ENIGMA Intimate Partner Violence Working Group seeking to increase IPV brain injury research collaborations worldwide and is a member of the ENIGMA Military Brain Injury and Sports-related Injuries Working Groups. She also co-leads ENIGMA Global Knowledge Exchange Network which works to provide education and training supports to service providers and advocates working with IPV-related brain injury. Dr. Esopenko’s work has been supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Department of Defense, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She was also awarded the 2024 National Neurotrauma Society’s Rosalind Franklin award, recognizing her impactful scientific contributions to neurotrauma research and her work improving advocacy and education for brain injury.