Dr. Ross Zafonte is the Clinical and Research Leader for Traumatic Brain Injury at the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program. He is the Earle P. and Ida S. Charlton Chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School, vice president of Medical Affairs at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, and Chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at MGH.
He has published extensively on traumatic brain injuries and other neurological disorders, as well as presented on these topics at conferences nationally and internationally. Dr. Zafonte’s textbook is considered one of the standards in the field of brain injury care.
Dr. Zafonte is currently the national lead investigator on an eight-center National Institutes of Health multisite clinical trial for the treatment of traumatic brain injury – the largest clinical treatment trial in the history of North America. He is also a principal investigator on a Department of Defense clinical trials center evaluating novel treatments for TBI and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).