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Assistant
TIRR-Memorial Hermann
Dr. Ivanhoe is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and in Brain Injury Medicine. She did her clinical fellowship in Brain Injury and Stroke Rehabilitation through a government funded grant to Baylor College of Medicine at TIRR Memorial Hermann. She is currently the director of TIRR's SPASM program (Spasticity & Associated Syndromes of Movement) and Clinical Professor in the department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Texas-McGovern Medical School in Houston.
Dr. Ivanhoe was director of that Brain Injury and Stroke Program and professor at Baylor College of Medicine Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation until the summer of 2019. Dr. Ivanhoe founded and served as Chief Medical Officer of Mentis, which was a residential post-acute brain injury program until 2017. She has served as faculty in courses across the US and abroad. Her clinical experience spans the entire spectrum of brain injury from developmental disabilities, neurosurgical ICUs, and throughout acute rehabilitation to long term follow up in the community. Dr. Ivanhoe is a frequent speaker on the management to spasticity and is on the board of the International Neurotoxin Association
She had received awards from the AAPMR, ACRM, the Brain Injury Alliance of Texas and has received the Professional Contribution and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Brain Injury Association of Texas. She was awarded the Sheldon Berrol, M.D. Clinical Service Award 2021 by the Brain Injury Association of America “For outstanding contributions to improving the quality of care, professional training and education in the field of brain injury” and UTHealth John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Distinguished Faculty Award for Clinical Science by the Women Faculty Forum of the UTHealth.