Eli Baliwis holds a BS in Nursing and is a member of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses, the Florida State Association of Rehabilitation Nursing, and the Philippine Nurses Association of South Florida. He works as a clinical research study nurse in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Miami, and has worked on numerous research studies, including site-specific and multi-center trials. He is primarily responsible for enrollment and data collection for both the South Florida TBI Model System and the South Florida SCI Model System.