Eli Vakil

Eli Vakil () (born March 4, 1953) is an Israeli clinical neuropsychologist. Vakil is a professor and former departmental chairman of the Department of Psychology, and the head of the Memory and Amnesia Lab at the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar Ilan University. He is also director of the Rehabilitation Center for Veterans after Traumatic Brain-Injury (TBI) in Jaffa, Israel.
Biography.
In 1974–1976, Vakil studied at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, graduating with a B.A. in psychology.He received his Ph.D. in clinical neuropsychology from the City University of New York (CUNY) in 1985. 
His dissertation was titled: "Encoding of frequency of occurrence, temporal order, and spatial location information by closed-head-injured and elderly subjects: Is it automatic?"
Vakil is married with three children and lives in Ra'anana.
Academic and therapy career.
In 1995–1996, Vakil was a visiting scholar at the Amnesia Research Laboratory (Professor Neal J. Cohen), Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Vakil started his career as a clinical neuropsychologist working in rehabilitation with patients who had sustained severe head-injuries. He worked at the Head Trauma Program at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York University Medical Center, and in the Recanati National Institute for the Rehabilitation of the Head-Injured Person in Israel.
Certified by the Ministry of Health as a rehabilitative psychology specialist and supervisor.
Vakil served as 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 the summer of 2017 he was a visiting scholar at the Kessler Foundation in West Orange, New Jersey.
Vakil was chairman of the rehabilitation psychology section in the Israeli Psychological Association and as the head of the rehabilitation psychology subprogram at Bar-Ilan University.
He is a founding member of the Israeli Neuropsychological Society and has served as a board member of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS).
Vakil has served as an associate editor of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (JINS).
In 2017 he received the Distinguished Career Award of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS).
Vakil has published extensively (over 150 scientific papers and book chapters) in the area of memory and memory disorders in various populations, such as traumatic brain injury patients, Parkinson’s disease patients, and the elderly.