Dr. Mary Dombovy MS '01 leads an experienced, compassionate team of professionals who provide medical care, rehabilitation, and hope to patients and their families. Unity Health's Brain Injury Unit is a nationally recognized program that cares for patients after traumatic brain injury caused by accidents, strokes, or illnesses. It's the only licensed inpatient acute brain injury program in upstate New York and the only one in western New York that treats children. Building the Unit into a center of excellence is Dr. Dombovy's passion—like seeing patients take their first step. In addition to leading this nationally recognized program for patients with traumatic brain injury caused by accidents, strokes, or illness, Dr. Dombovy also guides the next generation of medical professionals at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry where she is a clinical associate professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Widely published in her field, her research interests include: outcomes following restructuring of health care service delivery; epidemiology of functional recovery and outcome following stroke and brain injury; and pharmacologic and rehabilitative therapy for stroke and brain injury. Dr. Dombovy has served in a leadership capacity for several health care organizations, including the American Heart Association; the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties; the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Subcommittee for Vascular Neurology Subspecialty Examination; and the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. For her expertise, leadership, and service, she has been included several times on the Best Doctors in America National and Northeast Division lists; she has twice been an ATHENA Award finalist; and she was named the Distinguished Alumni of her undergraduate institution, the College of St. Benedict (Minnesota).