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 in the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Her research focuses on understanding the effects of neurotrauma and mental health conditions across populations, identifying methods for improving brain injury prevention, and developing patient-specific and community-based intervention strategies for trauma-exposed populations. She is specifically interested in addressing the chronic and long-term effects of brain injury and repetitive head impacts on cognitive, neural, and psychological health in individuals with exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV), military sexual trauma (MST), and blast-related injury. She leads the ENIGMA Intimate Partner Violence Working Group, and co-leads ENIGMA Global Knowledge Exchange Network. Dr. Esopenko’s work has been supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and Department of Defense. In 2024 she was awarded the National Neurotrauma Society’s Rosalind Franklin award, recognizing her impactful scientific contributions to neurotrauma research and work improving advocacy and education for intimate partner violence-related brain injury.
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