Louis French

Education

George Washington University

Biography

Dr. French is the Deputy Director at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE), at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC). He served as the Chief, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) prior to the BRAC integration of WRAMC and the National Naval Medical Center. He continued in that role at WRNMMC up to the integration of all TBI services on the WRNMMC campus in late 2014. Additionally, he serves as the Site Director for the Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence (formerly DVBIC) at WRNMMC, the largest site in that network. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the screening, assessment, and rehabilitation of those with TBI at the flagship military treatment facility in the DoD network. Dr. French has served on multiple federal panels and workgroups about TBI in the military, helping to shape current policy on screening and treatment for TBI on the battlefield and at home. These included the Army Surgeon General’s Taskforce on TBI, whose report provided the foundation for the structure of TBI screening and treatment that is currently in place in the DoD. He was one of the authors who reshaped the Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC) to construct the Military Acute Concussion Evaluation (MACE), which became the standard for concussion screening in theater. At WRNMMC, he participates in a diversified research portfolio. He is Principal Investigator on the Congressionally mandated 15-year natural history of TBI in military service members study, currently in its 14th year. He is a Lead Investigator and served as Co-Director of the Phenotyping Core with the Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (CNRM), a program that integrates research efforts on TBI and PTSD between the DoD and the National Institutes of Health. He has published over 170 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the area of military TBI and neuropsychology, and was recognized as the most published author in the nation for military or veterans mTBI research over the previous decade. In 2022, Dr. French was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service, DoD’s highest civilian honor.

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