Eve Valera, PhD — Resources

Guest Speaker Series: Eve Valera

We’re very excited to begin our Guest Speaker Series this week with a member of our Professional Advisory Board, Dr. Eve Valera! In addition to her bio, which is linked in the header and the previous sentence, Dr. Valera has provided a couple of documents for you to read before she speaks on Thursday. Read both of these carefully, as they’ll be the foundation for her talk. In addition, please come up with 2-3 questions for Eve.

• Brain Injury In Battered Women

• When pandemics clash: Gendered violence-related traumatic brain injuries in women since COVID-19

• Watch the video and read the accompanying article about Dr. Valera

Sex Differences in Concussion

1. Read through our page on Women & Girls, which can be found on our “Populations” section.

2. Read CA volunteer Micalie Hunt’s blog post on concussions in Women’s Soccer and its references.

3. Read this one-page document which has the text that we wrote for the upcoming edition of the Brain Injury Professional Magazine, which focuses on women and concussions. It was an honor to be asked to contribute to this magazine, which is the largest professional brain injury publication in the world, with 30,000 subscribers around the world.

4. Watch the following (~3-6 minute) videos from Pink Concussions Expert Interviews page. Note: these interviews were recorded in 2016-17. If you are interested, there are more videos on Pink Concussions’ page, but these are the only mandatory ones.

   1. Dr. Ann Rasmusson speaks about her research on progesterone metabolites

   2. Dr. Jeff Bazarian speaks about his research on the impact of the menstrual cycle on concussion outcomes

   3. Dr. Gwen Hunnicutt speaks about research about IPV related TBI and raising awareness among practitioners.

   4. Glynnis Zieman speaks about providing brain injury care for female domestic violence victims.

   5. Dr. Cindy Chang speaks about dissimilarities between male and female mTBI sufferers in sports medicine.

   6. Dr. Chris Giza speaks about shifting the focus from solely male subjects in research to including work on females.

   7. Dr. John Leddy describes his research on altered brain blood flow in females.

   8. Dr. Stephanie Kolakowsky-Hayner contrasts female and male concussion recovery and discusses the role of exercise.

   9. Dr. Jamshid Ghajar speaks about pathophysiological sex differences in susceptibility, as well as diagnosis standards (and eye tracking)

   10. Dr. Monique Pappadis speaks about gaps in knowledge regarding ethnic minority females and about her work sexual dissatisfaction in females post-concussion.