Eli Vakil

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

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]

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. ^ a b נחושתאי, אפרת (15 October 2013). "מי ירוויח ומי יפסיד ממהפכת המוח". TheMarker. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
    ברנדשטטר, נדב (19 August 2009). "החיים בעולם ללא שכחה". Calcalist. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d "Laboratory for Memory and Amnesia Research". Bar Ilan University. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  3. ^ "מרכז השיקום לנכי צה"ל ביפו". Bar Ilan University. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  4. ^ Reisfeld, Smadar. "Who Are We Without Our Memories?". Haaretz. 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. ^ "07FEB17 - Long-term Outcome Following TBI". Kessler Foundation Podcasts. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Rehabilitation Psychology in Israel". Israeli Psychological Association. 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. S2CID 232347620. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
    "INS Business Meeting July 10 2014" (PDF). International Neuropsychological Society. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  9. ^ "Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society - Editorial board". cambridge. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  10. ^ "Distinguished Career Award Recipient INS 2017". International Neuropsychological Society. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
    "Distinguished Career Award". psychology.org.il. 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". Facebook. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  12. ^ Siegel-itzkovich, Judy (15 May 2023). "University-based program raises IQ of adults with intellectual disability - study". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  13. ^ Karra, Yulia (19 July 2023). "A university boosts IQs of intellectually disabled adults". ISRAEL21c. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  14. ^ "Eli Vakil research". ResearchGate. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  15. ^ "Eli Vakil research". google scholar.
  16. ^ "Eli Vakil". Academia. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  17. ^ "זיכרון ונשייה". מכון ון ליר בירושלים (in Hebrew). Retrieved 21 September 2025.
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