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IN AUGUST 2024 COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE


2023 PINK Concussions Annual Report 

PINK Concussions Semi-Annual Report 2023 by Katherine Price Sloan Snedaker

March 2024 - USA, New Zealand, Australia

Katherine was invited to speak at Aotearoa New Zealand's first International Traumatic Brain Injury Conference on 22 March as well as Los Angeles on 16 March (event info), and Melbourne on 23 March (event info)

Los Angeles

 Innovative Research addressing Health Concerns of Women Service Members and Veterans Presenters Left to Right:, Ashton Kroner USMC Veteran, Associate Director of Development and External Affairs, UF Health Leon L. Haley Jr., MD, Brain Wellness, Maheen Mausoof Adamson, PhD, MHL, Research Director, Women’s Operational Military Exposure Network (WOMEN), VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Senior Scientist, Rehabilitation, VA Palo Alto Healthcare System Clinical Professor, Neurosurgery (Affiliated), Stanford University School of Medicine, Katherine Snedaker, LCSW, CEO PINK Concussions, Eve M. Valera, Ph.D.  (she/her), Director, Valera Lab, Psychiatric Neuroscience Division, Department of Psychiatry, Associate Professor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Research Scientist, Massachusetts General Hospital

New Zealand

Aotearoa New Zealand 1st International TBI Conference "The Hidden Cost of Violence" Top row: L to R - Dr. Eve Valera, Dr. Hinemoa Elder, Dr. Debbie Hager, Bottom row: L to R: Katherine Snedaker, Dr. Kim Gorgens, Dr. Alice Theadom, and Emcee/Journalist/Activist, Alison Mau

Australia

Presenters Left to Right: Dr. Jason Chan, Chief Medical Officer for the Melbourne Storm National Rugby League (NRL) team, Jacob, Student-Athlete Advocate, Professor John Olver AM, the Victor Smorgon Chair of Rehabilitation Medicine at Epworth HealthCare and Monash University, Dr. Vicki Anderson, Director of Clinical Sciences Research at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Professor at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences of The University of Melbourne, Dr. Michael Makdissi, Chief Medical Officer for the Australian Football League (AFL), Nick Rushworth, Executive Officer, Conference Chair, Brain Injury Australia, Katherine Price Snedaker, Executive Director and Founder of PINK Concussions – an international advocacy organization for women and girls with brain injury


May 2024

Katherine invited to present “Sex and Gender Differences in Brain Injury and Why it Matters” for USBIA

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What has Research shown about Brain Injury in Women and Girls?

The FACTS are clear in multiple research studies for over a decade.


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Eleven PINK SUMMITS from 2016-2022

Training the medical community with the most current research

PINK 1 Georgetown University Medical Center

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 PINK 3 New Orleans at IBIA

Injury across the Female Life Span

 PINK 4 Rome at IPBIS

Brain Injury in Women Under 25



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