Brain Injury Resulting from Violence: An Important Conversation with Dr. Eve Valera

Grand Champion Buzzy Winner and People's Choice Award at Journalism at Denison's sixth annual Podcast-a-thon in March 2024.

Sophia Sabota '24 won both awards for her story, “Brain Injury Resulting from Violence: An Important Conversation with Dr. Eve Valera”. As part of Professor Heather Rhodes’ Neuroscience senior capstone, Sabota’s story highlights how Dr. Valera’s discoveries working with survivors of domestic violence led her to call for action and further research on the invisible epidemic of brain injury as a result of violence.

Dr Valera is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and research scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital, who has set the pace in the emerging field of brain injury resulting from intimate-partner violence.