Alice Theadom, BSc, MSc, PhD is a Professor of Psychology and Brain Health and a Rutherford Discovery Fellow. She is Director of the TBI Network hosted at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. Alice is a Registered Psychologist and has been leading a research programme into traumatic brain injury for over 10 years. Her current research has a focus on recognition of injury and understanding factors predictive of recovery and the longer-term impacts of mild injuries such as concussion. Alice has published >130 peer-reviewed journal articles, in high quality journals including the Lancet and Lancet Neurology.  Professor Theadom is a member of the Global Burden of Disease Study responsible for determining the worldwide impact of injury and ill-health and the EU Commission funded Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in TBI (CENTER-TBI) programme. Alice established and teaches on a postgraduate teaching programme in Rehabilitation Psychology and is on the Editorial Board for the Journals Neuroepidemiology, Brain Injury and Brain Impairment.