Eli vakil
Eli Vakil is an israeli neuropsychologist, professor, and former department chairman of the Bar Ilan University Department of Psychology. Vakil is head of the Memory and Amnesia Lab at the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University (BIU), as well as director of the Rehabilitation Center for Veterans after Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in Jaffa, Israel.
Biography[edit]
Vakil was born in Tunisia in 1953 and moved to Israel with his parents at age two. He attended elementary school at the Moreshet primary school in Mevaseret-Yerushalayim, and later completed his high school education at Himmelfarb High School in Jerusalem. He studied for one year (1970-1971) at the Yeshiva of Sha’alvim. Vakil joined the IDF (1971-1974) as a combat medic, and later served in reserves as a psychologist (rank-captain). In August 1976, Vakil married Tamar in Israel and two years later, in 1978 at the age of 25, they moved to Sydney, Australia as emissaries for the Bnei Akiva youth movement. They resided there for two years before returning to Israel. In 1981 Vakil moved to New York to study at the graduate school of City University of New York (CUNY). He graduated in 1985 and moved back to Israel. He currently lives in Raanana, Israel with his wife Tamar. They have three children - Hila, Maya, and Roy.
Academic Career[edit]
Vakil received his B.A. in psychology in 1976 from BIU. Before matriculating at the City University of New York, Vakil worked as a staff psychologist at the Loewenstein Hospital Rehabilitation Center in Ra'anana, Israel. In 1985 he received his PhD in clinical neuropsychology from City University of New York. In New York, he worked at the Head Trauma Program (team leader) at the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in NYU Medical Center (1983-1985). In 1985, he joined the Rekanati National Institute for the Rehabilitation of the Head-Injured Person in Tel Aviv, Israel, as assistant director.
Certified by the Ministry of Health as a rehabilitative psychology specialist and supervisor. During the years of 1995-1996 Vakil was a visiting scholar at the Amnesia Research Laboratory (Professor Neal J. Cohen), Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). In the summer of 2017 he was a visiting scholar at the Kessler Foundation in West Orange, NJ. Vakil is a founding member of the Israeli Neuropsychological Society and has served as board member of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS). He has also served as an associate editor of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (JINS), and as chairman of the program scientific committee of the mid-year convention of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) in Jerusalem Israel (2014).
Vakil is a member of the discussion group “Holocaust – Transmitted Memory and Fiction”, a project conducted for a research group and workshop at Van Leer Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem (2013-2015). In 2017 Vakil was the recipient of the Distinguished Career Award presented by the International Neuropsychological Society (INS).
Publications[edit]
Vakil has published extensively (over 140 scientific papers and book chapters in various populations) on memory and memory disorders such as traumatic brain injury, Parkinson’s disease, and the elderly. Vakil is also known for having translated and adopted the Rey - Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT) to Hebrew, allowing it to be used in Israel.[1]
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