Clinical neuropsychologist
Eli Vakil by Rafi Kotz, 2007
Eli Vakil (Hebrew : אלי וקיל ) (born March 4, 1953) is an Israeli clinical neuropsychologist . He is a professor emeritus and former departmental chairman of the Department of Psychology ,[1] and the head of the Memory and Amnesia Lab at the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar Ilan University .[2] He is also director of the Rehabilitation Center for Veterans after Traumatic Brain-Injury (TBI) in Jaffa , Israel.[3]
Biography
In 1974–1976, Vakil studied at Bar-Ilan University , Ramat-Gan , graduating with a B.A. in psychology .[2] He received his Ph.D. in clinical neuropsychology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1985.
His dissertation was titled: "Encoding of frequency of occurrence, temporal order, and spatial location information by closed-head-injured and elderly subjects: Is it automatic?"
Vakil is married with three children and lives in Ra'anana .[4]
Academic and therapy career
Vakil started his career as a clinical neuropsychologist working in rehabilitation with patients who had sustained severe head-injuries . He worked at the Head Trauma Program at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York University Medical Center , and in the Recanati National Institute for the Rehabilitation of the head-injured person in Israel.[5] [2]
In the summer of 2017, he was a visiting scholar at the Kessler Foundation in West Orange, New Jersey .[6]
Vakil was chairman of the rehabilitation psychology section in the Israeli Psychological Association.[7]
He is a founding member of the Israeli Neuropsychological Society and has served as a board member of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS).[8]
Vakil has served as an associate editor of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (JINS).[9]
In 2017 he received the Distinguished Career Award of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS).[10]
References
External links
International National Academics