Carrie Esopenko, PhD
Dr. Carrie Esopenko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion Center in the Department of Neurology at the University of Utah and an Adjunct Assistant Professor position in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
She is the principal investigator of a National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke R01-funded multi-site study examining the psychological, cognitive, and neural signatures of intimate partner violence (IPV)-related head trauma.
Dr. Esopenko is the Lead Investigator of the ENIGMA IPV Working Group as well as co-lead of the newly developed ENIGMA IPV Global Knowledge Exchange Network.
She is also the Co-Principal Investigator for Rutgers University’s involvement in the Ivy League/Big Ten Epidemiology of Concussion Study. Her research focuses examining the chronic and long-term effects of brain injury and repetitive head impacts on cognitive, neural, and psychological health in individuals with exposure to IPV, military sexual trauma (MST), and blast-related injury, as well as on developing sex-specific prevention and assessment strategies for sports-related neurotrauma.