Training Settings

TIRR Memorial Hermann operates as one of the nation’s largest (134-bed) rehabilitation hospitals and consistently ranks as one of the nation’s top rehabilitation hospitals in the U.S. News and World Report Survey. The hospital’s comprehensive inpatient, outpatient, and vocational services are accredited by CARF, the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. TIRR Memorial Hermann is also designated as a Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems site and is home to the Brain Injury Research Center.. The majority of patients range in age from 16 to 80 and present with a wide variety of acquired brain injury (ABI) and spinal cord injury concerns (SCI), with additional emphases on specialty rehabilitation (MS, orthopedic and limb loss, international patients). The fellow will have the opportunity to receive advanced assessment, intervention and multidisciplinary consultation training within TIRR’s core acute inpatient rehabilitation programs, including stroke, brain injury, disorders of consciousness, spinal cord injury, and specialty rehabilitation. Although primarily adult in focus, our fellowship does offer pediatric experiences to the qualified fellow, one of which includes the recently opened pediatric brain injury rehabilitation unit at the hospital.

Another major training setting includes the TIRR Challenge, a day treatment program providing comprehensive rehabilitation and community reintegration services to individuals with brain injury. The Challenge clinic is located near the Texas Medical Center and the team is comprised of three neuropsychologists. Neuropsychology’s role within the Challenge Program is varied and includes multidisciplinary team consultation, individual services (psychoeducation, assessment and cognitive rehabilitation), as well as facilitation of treatment and psychoeducational groups.

The fellow will also complete a major training experience dedicated to the provision of comprehensive outpatient adult neuropsychological evaluations under close supervision by our outpatient providers. These evaluations are typically conducted within the TIRR West University outpatient clinic. In addition, Memorial Hermann comprises a large hospital system with several TIRR locations and numerous outpatient clinics in the greater metropolitan Houston area (more details here: Facts and Figures | Memorial Hermann). As such, additional supervised opportunities are available to the interested fellow in order to obtain specialized experiences working with Spanish-speaking patients, pediatric populations, and patients with chronic pain and headache, among others. TIRR outpatient referrals are received from the Memorial Hermann, Baylor and UTHealth PM&R physicians, as well as from Neurology, Neurosurgery, the Heart and Vascular Institute, Internal Medicine, Sleep Medicine and Oncology/Neuro-Oncology providers.

Minor rotations are selected among a range of excellent clinical experiences within the TIRR Memorial Hermann, UTHealth/McGovern and Baylor College of Medicine systems, as well as from leading specialty treatment centers at additional facilities within TMC. Options include Baylor’s Outpatient Neurology clinic, The University of Texas Health’s (UTHealth) specialty epilepsy and pre-surgical clinic, The UTHealth Neurology clinic, UTHealth-Memorial Hermann’s Sports Concussion Clinic, Texas Children’s Hospital, and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Fellows can also participate in the provision of individual or group psychotherapy and psychoeducation services through TIRR’s outpatient pain and insomnia treatment clinics.

We will be recruiting for one two-year fellowship position to begin in Fall, 2025.