For the last 25 years, professionals in the fi eld of brain injury have struggled to defi ne a model of rehabilitation that addresses the holistic needs of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), as well as their life long needs. In scientifi c literature, this subject has been discussed and deliberated to no conclusive end. Brain injury rehabilitation was not, and is not, traditional medicine. Life Care Planning is still a new and emerging fi eld. Yet, the core of brain injury rehabilitation and life care planning is the same as what we believe gives value to human existence, i.e.

The North American Brain Injury Society is pleased to announce the formation of the first state affiliate of the Society, the Texas Brain Injury Society (TBIS).

TBIS has been established to promote professional awareness, understanding and dissemination of information about brain injury through education and collaborative opportunities that advance the field of brain injury in Texas.

Robert D. Voogt, Ph.D., chairman of both the North American Brain Injury Society and the International Brain Injury Association, recently concluded his visit to Cuba for the 3rd International Congress of Neurointensivism, which included clinicians and researchers from the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America and the United States.

On July 19th, 2004, Congressman William "Bill" Pascrell, (D NJ), addressed the attendees of NABIS' Professional Assembly at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Pentagon City, near Washington, DC. The Congressman informed the Assembly of the work he and his colleagues are doing to reauthorize the TBI Act and apprised NABIS members of how they can help to support this important legislation.