Christine Mac Donald
Research Director
Ph.D.
Dr. Mac Donald is a Professor and the Vice Chair of Research for Neurological Surgery at the UW School of Medicine. She holds the James and Gaye Pigott Sports Health and Safety Endowed Chair. Since 2013 she has served as a grant panelist for the Department of Defense and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. She has particular expertise in clinical trials and diagnostic applications for concussion and more broadly traumatic brain injury. Her current research efforts include evaluation of long term concussion outcomes in the U.S. military, severe brain injury in adult civilians and the spectrum of brain injury in children with specific emphasis on co-occurring mental health conditions. For over a decade she has led large-scale, multi-center international clinical research studies in the United States, Italy, Germany and Afghanistan.
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