Dr. Bushnik’s research interests lie in the area of community integration and independent living, approaching this research from a multidisciplinary perspective. Dr. Bushnik is the Project Director of the Rusk Rehabilitation Traumatic Brain Injury Model System of Care at NYU. She has been a member of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) for over twelve years. She was the President of ACRM from 2011-2013 and was awarded the Fellow of ACRM in 2009 and the Distinguished Member award in 2008. She has been a long-standing member of the Girls and Women with ABI task force of ACRM and has published and presented research focusing on gender differences following traumatic brain injury.