Co-founder and CEO
Internship Program Director

Conor Gormally, Chief Executive Officer, co-founded Concussion Alliance in 2018 with Malayka Gormally following Conor’s struggles to find timely and effective care for persistent post-concussion symptoms––symptoms they still navigate on a daily basis. A vocal patient advocate with a compelling personal story, Conor has spent the last seven years working with leading researchers and clinicians to create accessible education, awareness, and advocacy tools to improve outcomes for concussion patients.

Since 2019, Conor has been Concussion Alliance’s Internship Program Director, overseeing the professional development of 122 undergraduates from more than a dozen colleges and universities. In 2022, with Elizabeth Sandel, MD, Conor designed a continuing medical education course, A Patient-Centered Approach to Concussion Care for Emergency Medicine and Primary Care Physicians.

Conor has presented at national and international conferences, including an oral presentation on the Concussion Alliance Concussion Education & Advocacy Internship Program for the 2021 Virtual World Congress on Brain Injury and poster presentations on improving care for persistent post-concussion symptoms at the 2022 IBIA Joint Conference on Brain Injury and (with a Concussion Alliance intern) on Concussion Alliance’s college student resources at the 2023 14th World Congress on Brain Injury in Dublin, Ireland (see related blog post).

Conor has presented educational interventions on concussion to 2nd-year medical school students at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in California and to athletic trainers at the 2023 joint meeting of the Colorado and New Mexico associations of athletic trainers in Colorado.

Conor’s story and work with Concussion Alliance were centered in a feature story on concussion care in Slate Magazine in March 2024. Conor participated in a panel on concussion in youth sports for Oklahoma PBS television station OETA in September 2024. Conor has been quoted in The Atlantic and interviewed for Bloomberg Prognosis Newsletter.

Since 2021, Conor has been a member of the Repercussion Group, an international working group whose mission is to “insist upon ethical and transparent evidence-based research and guideline development concerning trauma-induced brain injury utilizing a person-centered perspective.” As part of the group, Conor co-authored a position paper on the 2022 Consensus Conference on Concussion in Sport.

As a senior in high school, Conor worked with KUOW 94.9 Seattle as part of the RadioActive Youth Media Program to create the feature radio piece, This Is What A Concussion Sounds Like, which won an award at the Society of Professional Journalists 2017 Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest.

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