Brain Injury Association of Michigan's
30th Annual Conference

September 23 & 24, 2010
Lansing Center - Lansing, Michigan

Compassionate Care Home Health Services, Inc. is pleased to announce our participation in the Brain Injury Association of Michigan's 30th Annual Conference. This will be Compassionate Care's fifth year as a bronze sponsor.

Join us for the nation’s largest brain injury conference. The purpose of this two-day conference is to provide state-of-the art information about brain injury treatment and therapies, which will foster maximal rehabilitation and a good quality of life. This conference is designed to benefit persons engaged in therapies with persons recovering from injury as well as caregivers and persons with brain injury.

Keynote Speakers for the 2010 Conference include Nathan D. Zasler, MD and Steven Benvenisti, Esq.

"Nathan D. Zasler, MD, FAAPM&R, FACRM, FAADEP, DAAPM, CBIST is an internationally respected physician specialist in acquired brain injury (ABI) care and rehabilitation. He is CEO and Medical Director of the Concussion Care Centre of Virginia, an outpatient neurorehabilitation practice, as well as Tree of Life, a living assistance and transitional neurorehabilitation program for persons with acquired brain injury in Richmond, Virginia. He is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and fellowship trained in brain injury. Dr. Zasler is an Adjunct Professor of PM&R at VCU in Richmond, Virginia, as well as a Adjunct Associate Professor of PM&R at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians and a diplomate of the American Academy of Pain Management. Dr. Zasler has lectured and written extensively on neurorehabilitation issues. He is active in national and international organizations dealing with acquired brain injury and neurodisability, serving in numerous consultant and board member roles. He has co-edited four textbooks (Rehabilitation of Post-Concussive Disorders, Medical Rehabilitation of Traumatic Brain Injury, Rehabilitation of Functional Disorders and Brain Injury Medicine: Principles and Practice). He has served on numerous journal editorial boards. Dr. Zasler is chief editor of the international scientific publications NeuroRehabilitation and Brain Injury and serves as Associate Editor of the International NeuroTrauma Letter. He currently serves as the Chairperson of the International Brain Injury Association. His main areas of clinical and research interest include neuromedical issues in acquired brain injury (particularly mild TBI, neuropsychopharmacology and low level neurologic states), differential diagnosis in ABI, community-based care issues, as well as chronic pain rehabilitation including headache. Dr. Zasler is a practicing clinician who is involved with community based neurorehabilitation and neuromedical assessment and management of persons with acquired brain injury, neurodisabililty, and chronic pain. He is also involved in international ABI healthcare consultation, both clinical and medicolegal."

"Steven Benvenisti, Esq. is a partner at one of New Jersey‘s largest personal injury law firms, Davis, Saperstein & Salomon. Steven has the honor of being one of the less than 4% of New Jersey attorneys designated by the Supreme Court as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney. In 2010, his fellow attorneys voted him as one of the select “Super Lawyers” of New Jersey. Steven has devoted his career towards representing personal injury victims, accident prevention, volunteer work and education of the public. Steven is a Board Member of: The Brain Injury Association of New Jersey, Mothers Against Drunk Driving and a Police Crime Prevention Association. Approximately 40 times per year, Steven serves as a keynote and motivational speaker to: National Medical, Rehabilitation & Brain Injury Associations, Universities, High Schools, Judicial and Trial Lawyer Associations. One-Hundred percent of the honorariums from these programs go directly to charity. Steven has been featured in: NJ Jury Verdict Reporter, The New York Daily News, The New Jersey Lawyer, The New Jersey Record, Emmy Winning Program Due Process, Meet the Leaders, Carpe Diem, and other newspaper, radio and television news programs. He has also been the recipient of many awards some including: Brain Injury Association Annual Leadership Award, Brain Injury Association of NJ Annual Mimi Goldman Award, Hackensack Medical Center’s Trauma Prevention & Education Award, Citizen of the Year, Business Man of the Year, NJ Citizen Police Academy Award, Criminal Justice Award, Community Education Award, The Policing Bureau Award, END DWI Law, Enforcement Recognition Award, NJ Traffic Officers Paul St. Mauro Award, Volunteer Excellence Award, and an EMS Excellence Award."

The Brain Injury Association is a nonprofit organization that provides support, education, advocacy and research for those affected by traumatic brain injury. Incorporated in 1981, the BIA of Michigan was one of the first state associations chartered by the Brain Injury Association of America. 

The mission of the Brain Injury Association of Michigan is to enhance the lives of those affected by brain injury through education, advocacy, research, and local support groups; and to reduce the incidence of brain injury through prevention. 

The Brain Injury Association of Michigan's vision is to be recognized as a strong, viable, voluntary health agency providing leadership on traumatic and acquired brain injury through a broad range of services, and supporting research on brain injury treatment.