Conor Gormally
Co-founder and CEO
Internship Program Director
Conor Gormally and Malayka Gormally co-founded Concussion Alliance, a concussion education and advocacy nonprofit, in 2018 following Conor’s struggles in finding timely and appropriate care for persistent post-concussion symptoms. As a patient advocate, Conor has spent the last five years working with leading researchers and clinicians to create tools that improve outcomes for concussion patients in the U.S., Canada, and beyond through accessible education, awareness, and advocacy. Conor serves as Concussion Alliance’s Chief Executive Officer.
Since 2019, Conor has overseen the professional development of over 100 undergraduates from more than a dozen colleges and universities as Concussion Alliance’s Internship Program Director. In 2022, Conor and Concussion Alliance Leadership Team member Dr. Elizabeth Sandel, MD, co-created the continuing medical education course A Patient-Centered Approach to Concussion Care for Emergency Medicine and Primary Care Physicians, which features Conor contextualizing the CME’s content in a grounded and compelling personal narrative. Conor has also presented at national and international conferences. Conor recorded an oral presentation on the internship as a novel educational intervention for the 2021 Virtual World Congress on Brain Injury. He has also presented posters on improving care for persistent post-concussion symptoms using Concussion Alliance’s CME at the 2022 IBIA Joint Conference on Brain Injury and on Concussion Alliance’s groundbreaking college student resources at the 2023 14th World Congress on Brain Injury (see related blog post).
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.
Conor graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, in 2021 with a degree in economics.
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 Sound Like, which won an award at the Society of Professional Journalists 2017 Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest.
Conor enjoys cooking and making cocktails and is a lover of soccer, board games, Dungeons & Dragons, and competitive Super Smash Bros. He currently lives in Chicago, IL.