Alicia Swan, PhD

Site Principal Investigator

Alicia Swan PhD currently serves at the Director of Polytrauma Research at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System with the Department of Veterans Affairs. She leads the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Center of Excellence research program for the Polytrauma System of Care in Texas. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Purdue University and both her Master of Arts and PhD from Southern Illinois University Carbondale while studying functional recovery from traumatic brain injury (TBI) in aged rats. She completed postdoctoral fellowships at UT-Austin and UT-Health San Antonio. She currently maintains research affiliations with the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC). Her program of research centers on functional recovery and well-being following TBI among military service members and veterans.

Dr. Melissa Guerra

Site Principal Investigator