ORGANIZATIONS

The Concussion Legacy Foundation

The Concussion Legacy Foundation is a Boston-based nonprofit focused on promoting concussion awareness and prevention as well as researching Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative brain disease linked to long-term repetitive head trauma. I was fortunate to meet founder and CEO Chris Nowinski during my concussion-induced medical leave from school and interned at CLF during that year from 2016-2017. Visit their “personal stories” page for more stories from other suffering with brain injuries, and check out their new PCS resources. I am forever grateful for what they have done for me and athletes around the globe and I am still involved with them as an ambassador.

Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) Brain Injury Center

Boston Children’s Hospital’s Brain Injury Center is one of the most prestigious in the world. I was treated there from 2013-2016 for concussion in the Sports Medicine and Neurology departments. Dr. Michael O’Brien and Dr. Alex Taylor were my primary doctors and were phenomenal. I recommend looking at their website for more information about signs and symptoms and care. Boston Children’s was also the first place through which I was exposed to advocacy work, via a NESN interview with Dr. Taylor as well as other speaking engagements. I am also currently a co-chair of Boston Children’s Hospital’s Teen Advisory Committee, a teen advocacy group focused on BCH as a whole, not specifically the Brain Injury Center.

Robert C. Cantu Concussion Center at Emerson Hospital

Dr. Cantu is a leading specialist in concussion with a prolific 400+ publications to date. He is a co-founder of the Concussion Legacy Foundation as well as an acclaimed neurologist and neurosurgeon. I have been a patient of his since 2016 and very much appreciate the advances he has made regarding concussion as well as all he has done for me.