TBI Behavioral Health Subject Matter Expert - TBICOE

Join the HJF Team!

HJF is seeking a teammate to serve as a mild TBI Subject Matter Expert (SME) with behavioral health expertise to support the Clinical Affairs team. The SME is expected to perform with minimal direction and oversight in their areas of expertise and responsibility as part of a high-tempo office environment that is responsive to needs of DHA and DOD leadership, TBI clinicians/providers, brain health educators, and cognitive monitoring programmatic issues.

This position will be in support of the Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence (TBICoE) in Silver Spring, MD. The TBICoE is a branch of the Research Support Division in the Research and Engineering Directorate (R&E) of the Defense Health Agency (DHA). DHA is a Federal Program within the Department of Defense (DoD). TBICoE, known previously as the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC), has been congressionally mandated since 1992 and is currently a matrixed research, dissemination, and knowledge translation program, supporting warfighter brain health and readiness by advancing the traumatic brain injury state of the science and clinical standards.

TBICoE’s mission to support the warfighter is executed through subject matter experts embedded across DHA facilities with expertise in TBI clinical research investigations, surveillance, clinical tool development and training, cognitive monitoring and assessment, and dissemination of TBI tools, products, and education/training materials to DoD medical personnel, service members, including Guard, Reserve, and operational medics/corpsmen, veterans with TBI, and families/caregivers of the warfighter.

The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing military medicine. We serve military, medical, academic and government clients by administering, managing and supporting preeminent scientific programs that benefit members of the armed forces and civilians alike. Since its founding in 1983, HJF has served as a vital link between the military medical community and its federal and private partners.

HJF's support and administrative capabilities allow military medical researchers and clinicians to maintain their scientific focus and accomplish their research goals.

• Serves as a TBICoE SME on the intersection of concussion and behavioral health outcomes.
• Demonstrates knowledge of research on emerging areas of clinical practice, brain health threats, and warfighter-relevant demand signals.
• Provides expertise and analysis to TBICoE senior leadership on issues of TBI research, clinical care and standards of care for patients with protracted behavioral health symptoms following military TBI.
• Collaborates with and receives direction from TBICoE leadership, DoD health care policy offices and other SMEs to assist in enhancing metrics for evaluation and standardization of TBI services and programs, as well as ongoing rehabilitation needs for behavioral health concerns after TBI.
• May provide input for development of training platforms/tools. When appropriate, provides direct training.
• Provides consultation to leadership in TBICoE, DoD and clinical programs regarding the evidence on concussion and behavior health evaluation, treatment and management, identification of gaps in evidence, the current and future needs in the military and future research requirements.
• Supports TBICoE researchers as a SME.
• May directly collaborate in TBICoE/DoD research projects.
• Attends and participates in scholarly, academic and scientific meetings related to mild TBI/concussion, behavioral health, brain health, blast, and/or cognitive monitoring.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Direct Supervisor:
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