Executive Board

Dr. Czarnota is a Wayne State University graduate who completed post-doctoral training at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Rehabilitation Neuropsychology.  He later developed an independent private practice and is now on staff at several hospitals and rehabilitation centers where he provides evaluation and treatment services for a variety of adult populations.  He has included concussion care as part of his practice since 1999, which has steadily expanded to include grand rounds didactics, community presentations to schools and athletic associations and consultation services that range from amateur to professional sports.

He has been active with the Brain Injury Association of Michigan in their efforts to provide educational information and legislative input for the benefit of Michigan athletes and is also a member of the American Psychological Association and the National Academy of Neuropsychology.  He has been active with the Sports Neuropsychology Society since it was founded in 2012 and helped create the first international chapter of SNS (SNS-Canada) in 2018.  He was a member of the SNS Education Committee beginning 2017 and served as Chair from 2019-2020.  He has been on the SNS Board since 2020, first as Member-at-Large for two terms where he assisted with the creation of the SNS Student Committee, and now in a Board leadership role.

Dr. Bailey is a neuropsychologist and Professor of Neurology at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He also serves as the Director of the Neuropsychology Section of the Neurological Institute at University Hospitals in Cleveland as well as Director of the UH Concussion Management Program and Director of the Adult Neuropsychology Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program at UH Cleveland Medical Center. He completed his graduate training at Penn State University before completing an internship in neuropsychology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and serving as the chief fellow in neuropsychology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Dr. Bailey is a fellow of the National Academy of Neuropsychology and the Sports Neuropsychology Society.

At University Hospitals in Cleveland, Dr. Bailey has worked collaboratively with multiple departments and specialties to update, integrate, and standardize concussion management services across a large hospital system, including developing a network of multidisciplinary concussion specialists with the goal of improving concussion identification and management on and off the sports field. Clinically, he has assisted in the neuropsychological management of concussion in all contexts, including work at all levels of sport. His current clinical roles include being the neuropsychological consultant to the Cleveland Browns, the Cleveland Monsters, as well as assisting in the management of sports concussion at multiple colleges/universities, high schools, and youth sport organizations in northeast Ohio. Dr. Bailey also assists in clinical management of a wide variety of neurological conditions, including patients considering DBS or epilepsy surgery as well as patients with memory disorders. He regularly makes invited addresses and is the principle investigator on several research projects focused on brain health, primarily through advancing our understanding of how to facilitate clinical recovery following concussion through both improved methodology in identification of the injury as well as through a better understanding of the effectiveness of clinical interventions following concussion.

Dr. Catherine McGill is a Pediatric Neuropsychologist with a particular interest in helping families understand their child’s unique potential from a strength-based approach. Dr. McGill specializes in assessing children with a variety of complex medical, genetic, and neurodevelopmental concerns, but has a particular subspecialty in working with children and young adults who are experiencing a prolonged or complicated recovery from concussion. In line with her passion of combining clinical work with advocacy and outreach, Dr. McGill is currently the Neuropsychological Consultant for the Princeton University Tigers, Associate Director of Clinical Practice and Outreach for the Virginia Concussion Initiative, and Concussion In Sport Group (CIGS) Symposium Committee Member. Dr. McGill was also the Outreach Coordinator for the Children’s National SCORE Program, where she previously held a clinical faculty appointment in the Division of Neuropsychology and was an Assistant Professor at The George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC.

Dr. McGill has been a member of SNS since 2012. She served as the first Symposium Director (2019-2026), Symposium Program Chair (2018), Speaker Liaison, Sponsorship Chair, and a Membership Committee member. Dr. McGill also previously served as Secretary on the Executive Board, represented SNS as a co-delegate to the Joint Commission on Sports Medicine & Science, and was a co-representative on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Dr. Vaughan is a pediatric neuropsychologist at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC and has faculty appointments as an Assistant Professor at The George Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Vaughan is the Assistant Director of the SCORE program at Children’s National, and he has spent over 15 years working with children and adolescents with sports and non-sports related concussions. He works with local school systems to develop and improve concussion programs and educational supports following brain injury.

Dr. Vaughan is active in research and is currently a principal investigator on a multi-center Care4Kids study examine predictors of prolonged recovery in adolescents with concussion. He also worked on research projects examining neuroimaging and concussion, neuroimaging and biomechanical factors and functional outcomes in youth football, as well as several studies examining and developing tests and measures to better assess and understand outcome following pediatric concussion.  He has presented research at national and international conferences, co-authored book chapters, and published multiple articles in scholarly journals.

Dr. Vaughan is a charter member and Fellow of SNS and he served on the SNS Executive Board as the Secretary from 2013 to 2019. He also serves as a consultant to the NHL, AHL, and MLS’s concussion programs with the Washington Capitals, Hershey Bears, and DC United.

Dr. Ransom is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist and pediatric subspecialist in the Institute for Brain Protection Sciences at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. She is co-lead of the Multidisciplinary Concussion Clinic at JHACH and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Since joining JHACH, Dr. Ransom has evolved and led the inpatient and ambulatory traumatic brain injury neuropsychology consultation service. She additionally provides ambulatory neuropsychology services to patients with a range of medical, neurologic, and developmental conditions. She is an attending neuropsychologist in the neuropsychology fellowship and psychology internship programs.

Dr. Ransom’s research interests include exploring precision medicine paradigms to predict functional outcomes, inform collaborative clinical interventions, and achieve equitable access to high quality care for patients and families recovering from mild traumatic brain injury. She is an active investigator in numerous interdisciplinary retrospective and prospective projects involving pediatric mTBI, as well as professional motorsports.

Dr. Ransom has been a member of SNS since 2013. She has served as the SNAPP Outreach Subcommittee Chair and as a member of the Telemedicine Subcommittee and Education Committee. She has been active in advocating for concussion awareness, youth sports safety, and the role of the sports neuropsychologist in her community and at regional and national levels.

Dr. Podell is the John M. O’Quinn Centennial Chair in Concussion Research and Care and the Director of The Houston Methodist Concussion Center.  Dr. Podell also serves as the head of the Neuropsychology section in the Stanley H. Appel Dept. of Neurology, Houston Methodist.  Dr. Podell is an Associate Professor in Neurology at Weill-Cornell Medical College, Institute of Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist, and Texas A&M College of Medicine.  He also serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Houston.

Dr. Podell is a board certified neuropsychologist and is a fellow of the National Academy of Neuropsychology and Sports Neuropsychology Society,  He was one of the original developers/designers of the Immediate Post-Concussion and Cognitive Assessment software. He has served as a sports neuropsychological consultant to numerous collegiate, semi-professional and professional teams, international schools and clinics for over 25 years. His research has spanned across many areas of neuropsychology and has included executive control and frontal lobe functions, dementia, epilepsy, forensics and sports concussion.

Dr. Merritt is a Research Health Scientist at the VA San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) School of Medicine. She earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University and completed her internship and post-doctoral fellowship (with specialty training in neuropsychology) at VASDHS and UC San Diego. Over the past decade plus, she has been engaged in clinical, research, and service activities related to sports neuropsychology, and she is passionate about promoting our field.

Dr. Merritt’s research program focuses on delineating the multitude of risk and protective factors associated with clinical outcome and recovery following sports-related concussion and military traumatic brain injury (TBI). In particular, her research examines factors that may influence or predict the presence of post-concussive symptoms and neuropsychiatric distress following injury, and she has focused additional efforts on studying the neurocognitive consequences of concussion/TBI. Another major emphasis of her research program has been to elucidate the acute and chronic effects of TBI across the lifespan by incorporating the tools and techniques of biological markers such as genetics to study the processes that underlie recovery following concussion/TBI. She currently serves as PI or Co-I on several concussion/TBI grants.

Dr. Merritt has been a member of SNS since 2016 and has been actively involved in the organization since that time. She has served as a member of the SNS Sports Neuropsychology Action and Professional Practice (SNAPP) Committee, contributing to both the Outreach and Telehealth subcommittees, and was Co-Chair of the SNS Membership Committee. She has also been involved in other professional organizations including the Society for Clinical Neuropsychology (Division 40) of the American Psychological Association and the National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN).

Dr Sady is a licensed psychologist, is board-certified in clinical neuropsychology, and is a board-certified subspecialist in pediatric neuropsychology. She is a Senior Project Director on the Research & Development team of the Product Department at Psychological Assessment Resources (PAR, Inc), where she manages the development and revision of neuropsychological assessment products, strategizes around new product acquisition, and develops scholarly presentations. She completed her graduate training at University of Houston, internship at Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and postdoctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at Children’s National Hospital.

During her early career as a practicing clinical neuropsychologist at Children’s National, Dr Sady split her clinical time between concussion and other acquired disorders (neuroimmunology, stroke, moderate-severe TBI) through inpatient consultation, multidisciplinary clinics, and traditional comprehensive evaluations. Her community concussion involvement has included baseline testing, parent-athlete education, and consultation on concussion protocols at local schools. Dr Sady was the team neuropsychologist for MLS’ DC United for several years. Her clinical research focused on predicting outcomes and the development of more valid, efficient assessments. Her contributions to concussion outcomes include the co-development of psychometrically-sound rating scales for pediatric concussion, the Children’s Exertional Effects Rating Scale (ChEERS) and the PostConcussion Symptom Inventory (PCSI-2; PAR Inc., 2019).

Dr Sady joined SNS in 2013, serving first as a poster reviewer, poster chairperson, and then Continuing Education co-chair from 2016 through the present. She was inducted as a Fellow in 2021.

Dr. Broshek is the John Edward Fowler Professor at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine and she is board certified in clinical neuropsychology.  Her primary appointment is in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, where she is Director of the Neuropsychology Assessment Clinic, Chief of Psychological Services, and Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs.  Clinically, Dr. Broshek sees a large volume of patients with sports concussion, mild to moderate traumatic brain injury and persisting symptoms after concussion, as well as patients with intractable epilepsy and a variety of other neurologic and medical conditions.

Dr. Broshek is the inaugural Executive Director of the Sports Neuropsychology Society (SNS), as well as a Fellow and Past-President of SNS.  She is also a Fellow of the American Epilepsy Society and the National Academy of Neuropsychology. Dr. Broshek is a member of the NBA/WNBA Concussion Committee, a founding member of the International Congress for Athlete Brain Health, and has served as a consultant to the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee and is a past board member of the Concussion in Sport Group.. Dr. Broshek received the Dr. Jeffery T. Barth Distinguished Mentor Award from SNS in 2026 and the Distinguished Career Award from the National Academy of Neuropsychology in 2019 for her exemplary service to the field of neuropsychology. She has been active in research on sports concussion and mTBI, as well as national clinical trials for the treatment of intractable epilepsy. Dr. Broshek has been active at the local, regional, and national levels in promoting concussion education and safety.