Department of Defense & Department of Veterans Affairs Work Together to Identify Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI)
The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are currently working together in an effort to more effectively identify and treat traumatic brain injuries (TBI).
Kathy Helmick, deputy director for TBI at the Defense Centers of Excellence states, “The DOD goes hand-in-hand with the military services with early detection, understanding the barriers, and having the collaborators and partners in advancing the science. We want to eliminate undetected mild brain injury, and we do that with aggressive screening programs.”
The VA and DOD are working in conjunction with several academic institutions when it comes to traumatic brain injuries (TBI), in order to improve the methods by which service members suffering from TBI are treated. Among the agencies that they work with towards this end are the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.”