Medical Director, Center for Head Injuries, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute
Associate Medical Director, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Dr. Caroline McCagg received her M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT in 1966 and  completed her residency in Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation at New York University Medical Center (NYU) in 1972.

For the past 20 years, Dr. McCagg has worked primarily with head-injured patients. JRI's Center for Head Injuries was featured in the HBO Documentary "COMA," which poignantly portrays patients with traumatic brain injury, as well as the 2005 Discovery Health documentary, "The Man Who Slept for 19 Years." Dr. McCagg is a key member of the research team exploring the use of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in patients with traumatic brain injury.

In addition to her roles at JRI, Dr. McCagg is Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience/School of Graduate Medical Education at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ; and Attending Physiatrist in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Shore Rehabilitation Institute in Brick, NJ.

Dr. McCagg has authored and co-authored numerous publications, including:

• Behavioral Improvements with Thalamic Stimulation After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (Nature, Aug. 2007, pg. 600-603)
• Residual Cerebral Activity And Behavioral Fragment Can Remain In The Persistently Vegetative Brain (2002)
• Ethical Issues In The Rehabilitation Of The Elderly Stroke Patient, State of the Art Reviews (Vol. III, #3, 1989)
• The Changing Clinical Program at Montebelo: A Review of SCI Patients 1979-1984 (Maryland Medical Journal, June 1986, pg. 487-492)
• The Postoperative Management and Acute Rehabilitation of Patients with Spinal Cord Injuries (Orthopedic Clinics of North America, Vol. 17, No. 1, January 1986)