Dr. Hart received a PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology from the University of Houston, where she specialized early in rehabilitation of traumatic brain injury (TBI).

She spent more than 15 years treating and developing programs for people with acquired brain injury and their families in inpatient, outpatient, and residential settings before joining the MRRI faculty as a full-time researcher in 1999.

From 2002 to 2018, she was Principal Investigator of the Moss Traumatic Brain Injury Model System funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, and also received funding from the NIH, The Pennsylvania Department of Health, and the Einstein Society.

She is a Fellow of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Society for Clinical Neuropsychology, and has served on the ACRM Board of Governors. She is also a past-president of APA’s Division of Rehabilitation Psychology.

Dr. Hart has been an invited member of numerous expert panels on TBI and review panels for TBI research, and has served on the Editorial Board of six prominent journals. Her work has been recognized by the Pioneer Award from the Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania, the Cohen Award from the Einstein Healthcare Network, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group of the ACRM, the Solomon Award from the Rusk/ NYU Medical Center, the Diller Award and the Roger G. Barker Award from APA Division 22, the Norington Medal from the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, and the William Fields Caveness Award for Outstanding Research Contributions to Brain Injury at a National and International Level from the Brain Injury Association of America. She was the 2019 recipient of the Robert L. Moody Prize for Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury Research and Rehabilitation.

• Long-term psychosocial and emotional outcomes of TBI
• Executive dysfunction
• Development and evaluation of treatments based on self-regulation and self-management training
• Specification of the ‘active ingredients’ of rehabilitation, including applications of learning theories to rehabilitation
• Assistive technology for cognition
• Clinical trials methodology

2024

Lyons KD, Hart T, Singh S, Wolfberg J, Whyte J, Wechsler S, Lin SH, Fasoli SE, Van Stan

JH. Using the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System to describe experimental and control arms of a clinical trial for breast cancer survivors. Rehabilitation Oncology, in press.

Rabinowitz A, Hart T. Adherence to high-frequency ecological momentary assessment in

persons with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, in press. 

Arciniegas DB, Almeida EJ, Sander AM, Bogaards JA, Giacino JT, Hammond FM, Harrison-

Felix CL, Hart T, Ketchum JM, Mellick DC, Sherer M, Whyte J, Zafonte RD. Multicenter evaluation of memory remediation in traumatic brain injury with donepezil (MEMRI-TBI-D): A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, in press.

2023

Hart T, Maiuro RD, Fann JR, Vaccaro MJ, Chervoneva I. Predictors of treatment response to a psychoeducational intervention for anger in chronic moderate-severe traumatic brain injury. Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 35(2):158-164, 2023. .

Hart T, Ferraro M, Rabinowitz A. Cognitive rehabilitation in the inpatient setting. In: Sohlberg MM, Turkstra LS, Hamilton J, Transforming Cognitive Rehabilitation. New York:

The Guilford Press, 2023, pp. 263-275.

2022

Hart T, Rabinowitz A. Changes in social participation between 1 and 2 years following

moderate-severe traumatic brain injury. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences: Disability, Rehabilitation, and Inclusion, 3:945699, 2022.

Fann JR, Quinn D, Hart T. Treatment of psychiatric problems after traumatic brain injury. Biological Psychiatry, 91(5):508-521, 2022.

2021

Whyte J, Giacino JT, Heinemann AW, Bodien Y, Hart T, Sherer M, Whiteneck GG, Mellick D, Hammond FM, Semik P, Rosenbaum A, Richardson R. The Brain Injury Functional Outcome Measure (BI-FOM): A single instrument capturing the range of recovery in moderate-severe traumatic brain injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 102(1):87-96, 2021.

Benavides AM, Finn JA, Tang X, Ropacki S, Brown RM, Smith AN, Stevens LF, Rabinowitz AR, Juengst SB, Johnson-Greene D, Hart T. Psychosocial and functional predictors of depression and anxiety symptoms in Veterans with TBI: A VA TBI Model Systems study. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 36(6):397-407, 2021.

Fann JR, Hart T, Ciol MA, Moore M, Bogner J, Corrigan JD, Dams-O’Connor K, Driver S, Dubiel R, Hammond FM, Kajankova M, Watanabe TK, Hoffman JM. Improving Transition from Inpatient Rehabilitation following Traumatic Brain Injury: Protocol for the BRITE Pragmatic Comparative Effectiveness Trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 104:106332, 2021.

Hammond F, Malec J, Corrigan J, Whiteneck G, Hart T, Dams-O’Connor K, Novack T, Bogner J, Dahdah M, Eagye CB, Sevigny M, Ketchum J. Patterns of functional change 5 to 10 years following moderate-severe traumatic brain injury. Journal of Neurotrauma, 38(11):1526-1534, 2021.

Rabinowitz A, Hart T, Wilson J. Ecological momentary assessment of affect in context after traumatic brain injury. Rehabilitation Psychology, 66(4):442–449, 2021.

2020

Hart T, Ferraro M, Rabinowitz A, Fitzpatrick DeSalme E, Nelson L, Marcy E, Farm S, Turkstra L. Improving communication with patients in post-traumatic amnesia: Development and impact of a clinical protocol. Brain Injury, 34(11):1518-1524, 2020. PMID: 32835514

Rabinowitz AR, Chervoneva I, Hart T, O’Neil-Pirozzi T, Juengst SB, Hoffman JM. Heterogeneity in temporal ordering of depression and participation after traumatic brain injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 101:1973-1979, 2020. . PMID: 32653581