Jennie Louise Ponsford AO is an Australian neuroscience researcher at Monash University, Victoria who works on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
Ponsford is a clinical neuropsychologist, whose work is focused on developing a deeper understanding of the negative consequences of TBI, particularly those related to fatigue, sleep disturbance, attentional, memory and executive problems, psychiatric and behavioural disturbances and sexuality, and the development of rehabilitation interventions to improve long term recovery and quality of life in individuals with TBI.
[2] In partnership with the Department of Human Services, she has created information resources for adults and children with mild traumatic brain injury.
She currently co-ordinates one of the world's largest longitudinal outcome studies, which is tracking more than 3000 patients over 30 years following a traumatic brain injury.
In both 2020, 2022 and 2023 she was ranked by The Australian as Australia's leading research scientist in Rehabilitation Therapy In 2023 she received the International Brain Injury Association Jennett Plum Award for Outstanding Clinical Achievement in Brain Injury Medicine and the Australian Psychological Society Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Psychological Science.