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Brooke Murtaugh, OTD, OTR/L, CBIST, BT-C (she/her/hers)

Brain Injury Program Manager
Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals

Dr. Brooke Murtaugh received her Clinical Doctorate in Occupational Therapy from Creighton University in 2004. She began working as an occupational therapist at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals in 2006. She has practiced brain injury rehabilitation for 17 years. Brooke serves as Madonna’s brain injury program manager and continues to practice as a clinician, primarily consulting on and treating the DOC population.Brooke is responsible for coordinating the care and rehabilitation programs serving Madonna’s brain injury population across the continuum of care at both the Madonna Lincoln and Omaha Nebraska campuses. Dr. Murtaugh is a member of the Disorders of Consciousness Task Force and Brain Injury Special Interest Group through the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the International Brain Injury Association DoC Special Interest Group. She has played an active role within the ACRM DoC TF Family Education Committee. She is also the co-chair of the International Curing Coma Campaign Care of the Coma Patient Work Group in partnership with the Neurocritical Care Society and sits on the Coma Campaign’s Technical Work Group Committee. She is also a member of the International Brain Injury Society’s DoC Special Interest Group and participates in the Family Education Task Force the Motor Disorders Task Force within the DoC-SIG. Dr. Murtaugh is a member of the American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Program’s TBI Best Practice Recommendations committee leading the development of the rehabilitation best practice recommendations. Dr. Murtaugh has presented in numerous regional and national presentations on brain injury. Most recently presenting internationally at World Coma Day 2022 and March 2023 in Dublin, Ireland at the IBIA World Congress on Brain Injury. She has a number of peer-reviewed journal publications focusing on DoC clinical care.

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