Arman Fesharaki-Zadeh MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurology and psychiatry, has been awarded a Post-Acute Care Collaborative for Traumatic Brain Injury (PACC-TBI) grant via the Weil Family Foundation.
This is a prestigious challenge grant which is awarded to TBI programs with transformative potential with a focus on multi-disciplinary patient-centered care.
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF), in partnership with the Weil Family Foundation, has created a national network for outpatient clinics designed to improve recovery for TBI patients with a commitment of $5 million to support research as well as the launch and the first three years of operation for a select group of PACC-TBI clinics across the nation.
UCSF is offering a challenge grant to direct a portion of this gift of up to $100,000 per year for three years to each participating clinic, including Yale School of Medicine.
Fesharaki-Zadeh is a behavioral neurologist and neuropsychiatrist. His clinical research work is focused on studying the chronic neuropsychiatric sequelae of TBI, as well as developing novel treatment strategies for postconcussive syndrome and posttraumatic encephalopathy and associated neuropsychiatric symptoms. The PACC-TBI grant would provide the opportunity to expand on this work.