Founder and Leader

Executive Director & Founder, PINK Concussions, 2013 - present

  • Founded the first ever non-profit on female brain injury including concussions from sports, accidents, domestic violence, or military service.

  • Provided mental health support and education on brain injury to hundreds of women and families of teens through the crisis of prolonged concussion symptoms.

  • Created and currently moderate Facebook support groups for over 8,500 women and girls with brain injury as well as groups for caregivers, professionals, and veterans.

  • Recruited PINK board of directors, 80+ professional advisory board as well as 100+ volunteers and interns.

  • Produced 11 international PINK Concussions medical summits with a total of 210 speakers, 4,550 live participants, thousands of online participants, plus poster sessions on sex/gender differences in TBI.

  • Responsible for all aspects of the events including the site visit, speaker selection, social media, scientific programming, marketing, press releases, presentations, IT, event app, and all speaker management and travel.

  • Designed site and produced content and video for PINKconcussions.com website and YouTube channel.

  • Developed and maintained social media for Facebook, Twitter (10k followers), and Instagram.

Founder, Sports CAPP (Sport Concussion Aware and Prepared Program) 2010 – 2015

  • Created Concussion Education Program and website for Players-Coaches-Parents.

  • Produced 4 Connecticut state conferences, 80 speakers providing professional training to 660 CT school nurses and MDs.

  • Presented to schools, parent and community groups as well as medical professionals.

The Concussion Advocacy and Consulting, Social Worker Consultant, 2012-2017

  • Co-founded private practice to support and advocate for students with concussions and their families.

  • Helped with modifying student’s schoolwork, addressing comorbid issues with referral to appropriate specialists as needed.

  • Facilitated bi-weekly support groups for teen girls with Prolonged Concussion Symptoms (formerly called Post Concussion Syndrome) and provided educational training on concussions to school nurses/staff and youth sports teams.

Researcher

Publications in Peer Review Journals

  • Sanderson, Jimmy, Melinda Weathers, Katherine Snedaker, and Kelly Gramlich. "“I Was Able to Still Do My Job on the Field and Keep Playing” An Investigation of Female and Male Athletes’ Experiences With (Not) Reporting Concussions." Communication & Sport (2016): 2167479515623455.

  • Daugherty, J., Waltzman, D., Snedaker, K.P., Bouton, J., Zhang, ,X. and Wang, D. (2020), Concussion Experiences in New England Private Preparatory High School Students Who Played Sports or Recreational Activities. J School Health, 90: 527-537. https://doi.org/10.1111/josh.12899

     

  • Dana Waltzman CDC, Jill Daugherty CDC, Katherine Snedaker, Jason Bouton & David Wang (2020): Concussion reporting, return to learn, and return to play experiences in a sample of private preparatory high school students, Brain Injury, DOI: 10.1080/02699052.2020.1793388

     

  • Brain Injury Professional Magazine - July/August 2020, Katherine Snedaker was guest editor for this issue and responsible for curating articles & author of the feature article

     

  • Eric G. Post, Traci R. Snedden, Katherine Snedaker, Jason Bouton, David Wang, Differences in Sport-Related Concussion History, Reporting Behavior, and Return to Learn and Sport Timelines in Public versus Private High School Student Athletes, Brain Injury, 10.1080/02699052.2021.1890217, (1-8), (2021)

     

  • Valera, Eve M. PhD; Joseph, Annie-Lori C. BA; Snedaker, Katherine LCSW; Breiding, Matthew J. PhD; Robertson, Courtney L. MD; Colantonio, Angela PhD; Levin, Harvey PhD; Pugh, Mary Jo PhD; Yurgelun-Todd, Deborah PhD; Mannix, Rebekah MD, MPH; Bazarian, Jeffrey J. MD; Turtzo, L. Christine MD, PhD; Turkstra, Lyn S. PhD; Begg, Lisa DrPH; Cummings, Diana M. PhD; Bellgowan, Patrick S. F. PhD Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury in Females: A State-of-the-Art Summary and Future Directions, Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation: January 2021 - Volume 36 - Issue 1 - p E1-E17 doi: 10.1097/HTR.0000000000000652

     

  • Katherine Price Snedaker, Jennifer P. Lundine, Angela H. Ciccia, Mohammad Nadir Haider & Katy H. O’Brien (2022) Gaps in concussion management across school-aged children, Brain Injury, DOI: 10.1080/02699052.2022.2034954

     

  • Katherine Snedaker Letter to the Editor Special Topical Issue on Brain Injury and Intimate-Partner Violence in the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation (JHTR)