Professor Eli Vakil - Memory and Amnesia Lab

Memory and Amnesia Lab.

Professor Emeritus Eli Vakil

Eli Vakil is a Professor Emeritus and former departmental chairman in the Department of Psychology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, where he directs the Memory and Amnesia Laboratory at the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center. He has published extensively (over 170 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters) on memory disorders in various clinical populations including traumatic brain injury (TBI), Parkinson’s disease, and normal aging. He has research collaborations with many colleagues around the world, including USA, Australia and France. Since receiving his Ph.D. in Clinical Neuropsychology from the City University of New York in 1985, professor Vakil, in parallel to his academic career, has worked as a clinical neuropsychologist, specializing in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). He has served as Associate Director of the National Institute for the Rehabilitation of the Head-Injured Person, and as Director of the Rehabilitation Center for Veterans after TBI in Jaffa, Israel. He also has been the Team Leader for the Head Trauma Program at the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in NYU Medical Center. Professor Vakil also has consulted in the establishment of the Julia Farr Rehabilitation Center in Australia. He has served in several leadership positions in national Israeli professional and scientific societies including as Chair of the Section of Rehabilitation Psychology of the Israeli Psychological Association and is a founding member of the Israeli Neuropsychological Society. Professor Vakil has been an International Neuropsychological Society (INS) member since 1985. He has served on the INS Board of Governors (2004-2007), as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (JINS) (2004-2008), as a member of the Advisory Board of JINS (2014-2018), and on the Publication Committee of the INS (2013- 2016). In 2017 he received the INS Distinguished Career Award and in 2019 he received Distinguished Career Award by the Israeli Psychological Association – Rehabilitation Psychology. He served on several scientific committees for these INS meetings and chaired the program/scientific committee of the mid-year meeting held in Jerusalem in 2014.