Eli Vakil () (born March 4, 1953) is an Israeli clinical

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. Vakil is a professor emeritus and former departmental chairman of the Department of

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,
and the head of the

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and

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Lab at the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary

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Center at

Bar Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic i ...

. He is also director of the Rehabilitation Center for Veterans after Traumatic Brain-Injury (TBI) in

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, Israel.

Biography

In 1974–1976, Vakil studied at

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic i ...

Ramat-Gan Ramat Gan ( he, רָמַת גַּן or , ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located east of the municipality of Tel Aviv and part of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. It is home to one of the world's major diamond exchanges, and many ...

, graduating with a B.A. in

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. He received his Ph.D. in clinical

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from the

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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 Ra'anana ( he, רַעֲנָנָּה, lit. "Fresh") is a city in the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel. It was founded in 1922 as an American-Jewish settlement, 1 km south of the village of Tabsur, where an important ...

Academic and therapy 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

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, and in the Recanati National Institute for the Rehabilitation of the head-injured person in Israel. In the summer of 2017, he was a visiting scholar at the Kessler Foundation in

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. Vakil was chairman of the rehabilitation psychology section in the Israeli Psychological Association and as the head of the rehabilitation psychology subprogram at

. He is a founding member of the Israeli Neuropsychological Society and has served as a board member of the

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(INS).
Vakil has served as an associate editor of the

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(JINS). In 2017 he received the

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of the

(INS).

Awards and recognition

*Chairman of the Psychology Department,

(2003-2005) *Governing Board member of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) (2004 - 2007) *Head of the Rehabilitation Psychology Subprogram, Psychology Department, Bar-Ilan University (1996-1999)

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vakil, Eli 1953 births Living people Bar-Ilan University alumni Israeli neurologists Academic staff of Bar-Ilan University Israeli neuroscientists People from Ra'anana CUNY Graduate Center alumni Neuropsychologists Israeli psychologists