Eli Vakil

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Eli Vakil
אלי וקיל‎
Eli Vakil
Eli Vakil
Born (1953-03-04) March 4, 1953 (age 68)
Tunisia
CitizenshipIsraeli
Alma materBar Ilan University, City University of New York
OrganizationBar Ilan University
Spouse(s)Tamar
Children3
AwardsDistinguished Career Award of the International Neuropsychological Society
Websitefaculty.biu.ac.il/~vakil/
Eli Vakil by Rafi Kotz, 2007
Eli Vakil - Distinguished Career Award of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2017
Eli Vakil - Distinguished Career Award by the Israeli Psychological Association – Rehabilitation Psychology, 2019

Eli Vakil (Hebrew: אלי וקיל) (born March 4, 1953) is an Israeli clinical neuropsychologist. Vakil 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 City University of New York (CUNY) 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[]

In 1995–1996, Vakil was a visiting scholar at the Amnesia Research Laboratory (Professor Neal J. Cohen), Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).[5]

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.[6][2]

Certified by the Ministry of Health as a rehabilitative psychology specialist and supervisor.[7]

Vakil served as a member of the discussion group “Holocaust – Transmitted Memory and Fiction”, a project conducted for a research group and workshop at Van Leer Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem (2013-2015).[8]

In the summer of 2017 he was a visiting scholar at the Kessler Foundation in West Orange, New Jersey.[9]

Vakil was chairman of the rehabilitation psychology section in the Israeli Psychological Association[10] and as the head of the rehabilitation psychology subprogram at Bar-Ilan University.[11]

He is a founding member of the Israeli Neuropsychological Society and has served as a board member of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS).[12]

Vakil has served as an associate editor of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (JINS).[13]

In 2017 he received the Distinguished Career Award of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS).[14]

Vakil has published extensively (over 160 scientific papers and book chapters) in the area of memory and memory disorders in various populations, such as traumatic brain injury patients, Parkinson’s disease patients, and the elderly.

Awards and recognition[]

Published works[]

References[]

  1. ^ נחושתאי, אפרת (15 October 2013). "מי ירוויח ומי יפסיד ממהפכת המוח". TheMarker. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
    ברנדשטטר, נדב (19 August 2009). "החיים בעולם ללא שכחה". Calcalist. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Laboratory for Memory and Amnesia Research". Bar Ilan University. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  3. ^ "מרכז השיקום לנכי צה"ל ביפו". Bar Ilan University. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  4. ^ Reisfeld, Smadar. "Who Are We Without Our Memories?". Haaretz. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  5. ^ Human factors interventions for the health care of older adults. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. August 2001. pp. 92–120. ISBN 1410603946. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  6. ^ SAGE handbook of applied memory (PDF). SAGE Publications Ltd. 2014. ISBN 978-1-4462-0842-7. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  7. ^ "rehabilitative psychology specialists and supervisors". Ministry of Health. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  8. ^ "מהו זיכרון? 70 שנה אחרי - תערוכה, מפגשים, דיונים". Van Leer Institute for Advanced Studies. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  9. ^ "07FEB17 - Long-term Outcome Following TBI". Kessler Foundation Podcasts. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  10. ^ "Rehabilitation Psychology in Israel". Israeli Psychological Association. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  11. ^ a b "The Clinical Rehabilitation Psychology subprogram". Bar-Ilan University. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  12. ^ a b "Minutes From the Thirty-Third Annual International Neuropsychological Society Meeting". Cambridge. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
    "INS Business Meeting July 10 2014" (PDF). International Neuropsychological Society. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  13. ^ a b "Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society - Editorial board". cambridge. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  14. ^ "Distinguished Career Award Recipient INS 2017". International Neuropsychological Society. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
    "Distinguished Career Award". psychology.org.il. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  15. ^ "Prof. Eli Vakil". Bar-Ilan University. Retrieved 24 May 2020.

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