Professor Robyn Tate
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Biographical details
Professor Robyn Tate is a clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist with extensive clinical experience in rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury. Her initial clinical appointment was at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service, Lidcombe Hospital, Sydney, Australia where she was involved in the development and delivery of clinical services over a 15-year period. [More...]
Research interests
Her research interests include instrument development, evidence-based clinical practice, early recovery and long-term outcome after traumatic brain injury. She has supervised the research of more than 40 students and her publications include a 10-chapter book on outcome measurement and more than 90 journal articles and book chapters.
Robyn instigated and is Program Director of PsycBITE, the Psychological Database of Brain Impairment Treatment Efficacy, which was launched on the internet in 2004 (www.psycbite.com). She is Founding Co-Editor of Brain Impairment, the official journal of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment, and an Executive Editor of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. She is member of two international Steering Committees: (a) to develop core sets for traumatic brain injury, and (b) to develop reporting guidelines for n-of-1 trials. She is also on the Management Committee of the World Federation of Neurorehabilitation, and is Secretary of its Special Interest Group in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.
Current national competitive grants*
2010
Longitudinal communication outcomes following traumatic brain injury
Togher L, Tate R, McDonald S, Turkstra L, Holland A, MacWhinney B
NHMRC Project Grant ($755,875 over 5 years)
* Grants administered through the University of Sydney