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José León-Carrión, Ph.D., is Professor of Neuropsychology and Director of the Human Neuropsychology Laboratory at the University of Seville, Spain. He is involved with several rehabilitation programs, including the Center for Brain Injury Rehabilitation (C.RE.CER) in Seville, an interdisciplinary center for neurorehabilitation. He is also Vice President of the International Brain Injury Association (IBIA) and President of the Academy for the Advancement of Brain Injury Rehabilitation. Professor León-Carrión is a member of the Euroacademy for Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology and the European Brain Injury Society. He has served as President and Chair of the Second World Congress on Brain Injury and has participated in conferences worldwide. He is also the Executive Director of the Revista Española de Neuropsicología. Professor León-Carrión is a member of several journal editorial boards. He is recognized for international books and articles related to assessment and rehabilitation of brain injury and for textbooks in neuropsychology. Margaret J. Giannini, M.D., F.A.A.P., is the immediate past Deputy Assistant Chief Medical Director for Rehabilitation and Prosthetics, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter appointed Dr. Giannini as the first Director of the National Institute of Handicapped Research, now known as the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Dr. Giannini was a founder and director of the Mental Retardation Institute of New York Medical College, the first and largest facility for the mentally retarded and the developmentally disabled of all ages and etiologies in the United States and the world. She established one of the first university-affiliated facilities at New York Medical College. Dr. Giannini is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. She is the recipient of many national and international awards in recognition of her professional and humanitarian services and achievements. She has chaired more than 35 international conferences on rehabilitation and developmental disabilities in many countries, including Israel, Spain, China, Russia, Argentina, India, and Egypt. She has published extensively and she lectures nationally and internationally. She is Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The American University of Rome, Italy.

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