Dr. Helen Bramlett is a Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine as well as a Research Health Scientist at the Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Bramlett received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, her MS in Psychology at the University of Louisiana at Monroe and her MS and PhD degree in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Miami. She completed her postdoctoral work in Neurotrauma at the University of Miami. Dr. Bramlett is an internationally recognized scientist with over 25 years of experience in the field of CNS injury including the pathophysiology and treatment of traumatic brain and spinal cord injury as well as stroke. Dr. Bramlett is actively involved in undergraduate teaching and serves as Director of the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program at the University of Miami. She is currently funded by NIH, the State of Florida and the VA. Dr. Bramlett serves on several national review boards and is the Editor-in-Chief of Neurotrauma Reports and is on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Neurotrauma and Translational Stroke Research. She is the Managing Editor of Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management. She is a founding member of InflamaCORE, LLC, a company dedicated to treating and diagnosing inflammatory injury and disease.