PhD
Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa, PhD, FACRM, is an accomplished researcher and clinician with 40 years of experience in traumatic brain injury (TBI) across clinical practice, research, and public health domains. She serves as Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and previously worked as a Senior Health Scientist at the CDC’s Division of Injury Prevention, where she led and contributed to national TBI surveillance, prevention, and policy efforts.
Her work spans pediatric and adult TBI, rehabilitation program development, longitudinal research studies, and major contributions to CDC’s Report to Congress on the Management of TBI in Children. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, and has received prestigious recognitions including the 2025 Robert L. Moody Prize, the BIAA William Fields Caveness Award, and multiple honors for her research, advocacy, and leadership in brain injury rehabilitation.
Advisory Board Member: Journal of School Health, Journal of Clinical Medicine
Editorial Board Member: Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
Vice Chair, Georgia RSVP Clinic
Member, TBI Classification Workgroup
Scientific Advisory Board, Brain Trauma Blueprint
Chair, Pediatric–Adolescent Task Force (ACRM)
Speaker at numerous international and national conferences on TBI
1. Screening for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in TBI Patients
Haarbauer-Krupa J., et al. (2017). Journal of Neurotrauma.
A key neuroscience paper examining neural-behavioral outcomes after TBI, using acute emergency department data.
2. Acute Ischemic Stroke Following Moderate to Severe TBI
Kowalski RG., Haarbauer-Krupa J., et al. (2017). Stroke.
Highly neurological - links TBI to acute cerebrovascular complications.
3. Epidemiology of Chronic Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury
Haarbauer-Krupa J., et al. (2021). Journal of Neurotrauma.
A major neuroscience/public-health paper on chronic neural effects following TBI.
4. Early Brain Injury and Adaptive Functioning: Mediating Role of Pragmatic Language
Hendrix C.L., Wise J., Haarbauer-Krupa J., et al. (2020). Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
Neuroscience relevance: cognitive-neural development and adaptive neural functioning.
5. Effect of Parental Education and Poverty on Neural Recovery After Pediatric TBI
Zonfrillo MR., Haarbauer-Krupa J., et al. (2021). Brain Injury.
Explores neural outcome trajectories in children—important in concussion neuroscience.
