Biography:Eli Vakil

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Eli Vakil
אלי וקיל
Eli Vakil
Eli Vakil
Born (1953-03-04) March 4, 1953 (age 72)
Tunisia
CitizenshipIsraeli
Alma materBar Ilan University, CUNY Graduate Center
OrganizationBar Ilan University
Spouse(s)Tamar
Children3
AwardsDistinguished Career Award of the International Neuropsychological Society
Websitefaculty.biu.ac.il/~vakil/
Eli Vakil by Rafi Kotz, 2007

Eli Vakil (Hebrew: אלי וקיל; born March 4, 1953) is an Israeli clinical neuropsychologist. He is a professor emeritus and former departmental chairman of the Department of Psychology,[1] and the head of the Memory and Amnesia Lab at the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University.[2] He also served as the director of the Rehabilitation Center for Veterans after Traumatic Brain-Injury (TBI) in Jaffa, Israel.[3]

Biography

In 1974–1976, Vakil studied at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, graduating with a B.A. in psychology.[2] He received his Ph.D. in clinical neuropsychology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1985. His dissertation was titled: "Encoding of frequency of occurrence, temporal order, and spatial location information by closed-head-injured and elderly subjects: Is it automatic?" Vakil is married with three children and lives in Ra'anana.[4]

Clinical career

Vakil started his career as a clinical neuropsychologist working in rehabilitation with patients who had sustained severe head-injuries. He worked at the Head Trauma Program at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York University Medical Center (1984-1985), and in the head of Recanati National Institute for the Rehabilitation of the head-injured person in Israel (1985-1987).[5][2] and the director of the Rehabilitation Center for Veterans after Traumatic Brain-Injury (TBI) in Jaffa, Israel (2005-2021). Chairman of the Psychology Department, Bar-Ilan University (2003-2005).

In the summer of 2017, he was a visiting scholar at the Kessler Foundation in West Orange, New Jersey.[6]

Vakil was chairman of the rehabilitation psychology section in the Israeli Psychological Association.[7]

He is a founding member of the Israeli Neuropsychological Society and has served as a board member of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS).[8]

Vakil 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).[9]

Distinguished Career Award of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS)
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israeli Psychological Association - Rehabilitation Psychology, 2019

In 2017 he received the Distinguished Career Award of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS).[10] In 2019 he received the Distinguished Career Award by the Israeli Psychological Association – Rehabilitation Psychology.[11]

Academic career

He is a professor emeritus and former departmental chairman of the Department of Psychology,[1] and the head of the Memory and Amnesia Lab at the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University.[2]

Prof. Vakil has published extensively (over 180 scientific papers and book chapters) and presented at about 200 international scientific conferences, in the area of memory[12] and memory disorders[13] in various populations, such as traumatic brain injury patients, Parkinson’s disease patients, and the elderly.[14][15][16]

  • Associate Editor of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (JINS). The official journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS). (2004 - 2008).
  • Chairman of the program/scientific committee of the mid-year meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) in Jerusalem Israel (2014)
  • Member of the discussion group “Holocaust – Transmitted Memory and Fiction” Project for A Research Group and Workshop Van Leer Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem (2013-2015)[17].
  • Visiting scholar at the Amnesia Research Laboratory (Professor Neal Cohen), Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (1995-1996).


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 נחושתאי, אפרת (15 October 2013). "מי ירוויח ומי יפסיד ממהפכת המוח". TheMarker. https://www.themarker.com/magazine/1.2134573. Retrieved 24 May 2020. 
    ברנדשטטר, נדב (19 August 2009). "החיים בעולם ללא שכחה". Calcalist. https://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3352643,00.html. Retrieved 24 May 2020. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Laboratory for Memory and Amnesia Research". https://faculty.biu.ac.il/~vakil/#. Retrieved 24 May 2020. 
  3. ↑ "מרכז השיקום לנכי צה"ל ביפו". https://www.biu.ac.il/soc/shikum/. Retrieved 27 May 2020. 
  4. ↑ Reisfeld, Smadar. "Who Are We Without Our Memories?". Haaretz. https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/unraveling-the-secrets-of-your-mind-1.5171862. Retrieved 24 May 2020. 
  5. ↑ The SAGE handbook of applied memory. Timothy J. Perfect, D. Stephen Lindsay. Los Angeles. 2014. ISBN 978-1-4462-0842-7. OCLC 871775672. 
  6. ↑ "07FEB17 - Long-term Outcome Following TBI". https://www.owltail.com/podcast/87641-kessler-foundation-disability-rehabilitation-research-and-employment/best-episodes. Retrieved 25 May 2020. 
  7. ↑ "Rehabilitation Psychology in Israel". http://psychology.activetrail.biz/Rehabilitation-Psychology-in-Israel. Retrieved 24 May 2020. 
  8. ↑ "Minutes From the Thirty-Third Annual International Neuropsychological Society Meeting". Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 11 (7): 935–938. November 2005. doi:10.1017/S1355617705059990. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-international-neuropsychological-society/article/minutes-from-the-thirtythird-annual-international-neuropsychological-society-meeting-st-louis-missouri/2427BE7B2F8270E6C8DF14C11D93CD23. Retrieved 24 May 2020. 
    "INS Business Meeting July 10 2014". https://www.the-ins.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Business_2014_Jerusalem.pdf. Retrieved 24 May 2020. 
  9. ↑ "Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society - Editorial board". https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-international-neuropsychological-society/information/editorial-board. Retrieved 24 May 2020. 
  10. ↑ "Distinguished Career Award Recipient INS 2017". https://www.the-ins.org/?s=VAKIL. Retrieved 24 May 2020. 
    "Distinguished Career Award". https://www.psychology.org.il/StaticContent/july_12_2017/index.html#5. Retrieved 24 May 2020. 
  11. ↑ "ברכות לפרופ' אלי וקיל מהמחלקה לפסיכולוגיה באוניברסיטת בר-אילן, שזכה בפרס מפעל חיים על תרומה ייחודית ומשמעותית לשדה המחקרי והקליני של הפסיכולוגיה השיקומית". https://www.facebook.com/biubogrim/posts/1857794684352855/. Retrieved 24 May 2020. 
  12. ↑ Siegel-itzkovich, Judy (15 May 2023). "University-based program raises IQ of adults with intellectual disability - study". Jerusalem Post. https://www.jpost.com/science/article-743111. 
  13. ↑ Karra, Yulia (19 July 2023). "A university boosts IQs of intellectually disabled adults". ISRAEL21c. https://www.israel21c.org/a-university-boosts-iqs-of-intellectually-disabled-adults/. 
  14. ↑ "Eli Vakil research". https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eli_Vakil. Retrieved 24 May 2020. 
  15. ↑ "Eli Vakil research". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MDR6CnoAAAAJ&hl=en. 
  16. ↑ "Eli Vakil". https://biu.academia.edu/EliVakil. Retrieved 24 May 2020. 
  17. ↑ "זיכרון ונשייה" (in he-IL). http://www.vanleer.org.il/he/memory. 



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