Christine Mac Donald, PhD

Expert Guest Speaker

Dr. Mac Donald is an expert guest speaker for Concussion Alliance. She is a Professor and the James and Gaye Pigott Endowed Chair in the Department of Neurological Surgery at Harborview Medical Center. She is also the Research Director of the Sports Institute at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Trained as a Neurotraumatist, her current research efforts include advanced neuroimaging evaluation of concussion in the US military and the distribution of brain injury severity in civilian adults and children with specific emphasis on comorbid mental health conditions. She also conducts high-resolution imaging for direct radiological-pathological correlations of radiographic markers of brain injury pathology via cadaveric imaging and in ex-vivo human brain specimens. For the past decade, she has led large-scale, multi-center, international clinical research studies in the United States, Italy, Germany, and Afghanistan.