Dr. Cassie J. Rowe is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University. She earned her PhD in Behavior, Cognition, and Neuroscience from American University. Dr. Rowe has an interdisciplinary background and training with over 8 years of experience in biological sciences, molecular biology, and neurosciences, with specific training in acute toxicology, neuroendocrinology, traumatic brain injury, blood–brain barrier disruption, cognition, neuroinflammation, and neuro-musculoskeletal injuries. Her current research interest involves the traumatic injury state, specifically neuromuscular extremity trauma and the neurobiological and physiological consequences underlying neuro-related disease conditions/pathologies (trauma-induced brain injury). She is also interested in sex-differences in disease states and the underlying molecular mechanisms of inflammatory pathways that regulate disease onset and progression.