Hirsch Handmaker, M.D. is the Chairman and CEO of The CACTIS Foundation (www.cactis.org), a Scottsdale, Arizona based 501(c)3 organization, Founder and Managing Member of Conquering Concussions, LLC and President of Ionia Consulting. His career includes 25 years in clinical practice and medical imaging research at Children's Hospital of San Francisco and California Pacific Medical Center; he has founded four (4) companies in advanced medical imaging and informatics, and the pursuit of digital transformation of practices in oncology, orthopaedics, sports medicine and radiology.

A diplomat of the American Boards of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Hirsch also served as the first Director of Medical Services for the Oakland Athletics Baseball Company, and led the CACTIS team which conceptualized and provided Vision and Audiology Services at the Banner Concussion Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He served as co-chairman of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) subcommittee for six NCAA Fiesta, Insight/Buffalo Wild Wings and BCS Bowl Games in Phoenix, Arizona, and served on the Scientific Advisory and Statewide Planning Committees for the Arizona Cancer Center of the University of Arizona College of Medicine, as well as the Cancer Healthcare Disparities Institute (CHDI). Dr. Handmaker is Research Professor of Radiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix, has authored or coauthored over 70 publications and 2 textbooks dealing with diagnostic imaging and informatics. He has directed the expedited review process and subsequent FDA approval for two novel diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals after serving as Principal Investigator for the multicenter trials for these agents.

Dr. Handmaker earned his B.S. at The University of Arizona and his M.D. at the University of Southern California. His internship and residency were completed at Northwestern University Affiliated Hospitals, Chicago, Illinois. Following his tour of duty in Chu Lai, Viet Nam (Bronze Star Medal), he served as Assistant Director of Nuclear Medicine at Letterman Army Medical Center, Presidio of San Francisco, followed by a Post-Doctoral Fellowship as an NIH Trainee in Medical Physics at The Donner Laboratory of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Ochs is a clinical neuropsychophysiologist with over thirty years’ experience as a psychologist, 30 years' experience in behavioral medicine, and 25 years of involvement in the development of computerized biofeedback instrumentation. With a Ph.D. in social psychology and extensive formal clinical and school psychology training, he has been nationally recognized for the pioneering contributions he has made to computerized biofeedback and school psychology. He has also served two terms as president of the Biofeedback Society of New York. A computerized biofeedback system he developed in 1978 has toured the US as part of the APA exhibit on the brain and is now housed at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.

He has also developed a unique view of how to work with feelings, manage difficult ones, as well as develop an idea of the significance of feelings.

His current work explores the interaction of EEG activity and advanced treatment planning for neurofeedback. He currently investigates new treatments for psychological and mechanical nervous system trauma, as well as new ways to measure improvement in functioning, and develops new ways to use EEG data to visualize brain activity. In October of 2014 he was awarded the Joel F. Lubar award for his pioneering contributions to neurofeedback by the ISNR.

Dr. Fitzgerald has been providing eye care to eastern Iowa since graduating from Pacific University in 1984. She runs a busy primary care clinic where she diagnoses and treats ocular disease and evaluates patients with brain injury. In 2007, she opened a multi-disciplinary clinic, Cedar Rapids Vision in Motion, which provides occupational therapy, vision skills rehabilitation, and low vision services to children and adults. She attended Luther College in Decorah, Iowa where she played softball and basketball. At Pacific University, she went to NCAA nationals two years in a row. She taught pitching and batting clinics and was umpire in chief of softball tournaments for high school students. Dr. Fitzgerald also played semi-professional softball in the 1980’s. She has a special interest in sports vision performance and concussion. Dr. Fitzgerald has helped facilitate over 8,000 baseline testings for concussion in Cedar Rapids and the surrounding community. Vision in Motion utilizes their Sports Vision Performance protocol to train the area amateur and professional teams in hockey, basketball, arena football, and soccer.

Working with Metro Youth Football, which has 1,400 young people playing football annually, Dr. Fitzgerald has helped implement a baseline screening protocol with nearly 100% athlete participation. In fact, the pre-season baseline and post-concussion care protocol is so successful it has attracted attention from the NFL. Dr. Fitzgerald has lectured nationally about neuro-rehabilitation and concussion. She is CIC certified in IMPACT, which is a web based product used in concussion management. Locally, she has received the Waypoint Pillar of the Community in 2008 and The Corridor Business Journal’s Woman of Influence in 2010. With the Sports Vision Performance Training, a concussion plus no solution equals hysteria. We possess the solution and it is training the brain with Sports Vision Performance techniques. Pre-season sports vision training reduces the incidence of concussion and reduces the time to recover from a concussion. Dr. Fitzgerald’s mission is to keep our athletes safe while participating in the sports they love.

Ira Sherman has been a trial lawyer since 1974. He began his career in the Dept. of Labor, Office of the Solicitor, Division of Civil Rights. He litigated numerous class action civil rights enforcement cases seeking compliance with the obligation of federal contractors not to discriminate and to take affirmative action.

Mr. Sherman began his career as a trial lawyer in private practice at the law firm of Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel, P.C., in Washington, D.C., in 1980. He has been the Managing Partner since 2005. He has represented thousands of individuals injured as a result of the carelessness of others. He has focused his energies on the representation of individuals with traumatic brain injuries. He is a founding member of the Brain Injury Association of D.C. (BIADC), and currently serves as Vice President of BIADC. He assisted in the drafting The Youth Athletic Concussion Protection Act of 2011 – a District of Columbia law that protects youth athletes suspected of sustaining a concussion from reentering play unless cleared by a healthcare provider.

Mr. Sherman has represented numerous children that suffered brain injury at birth as well as individuals that suffered profound brain injury as a result of the use of cyanoacrylate (the chemical equivalent of Superglue®) as an embolization device in the brain.

In December 2012, Mr. Sherman was elected to the Board of Directors of the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA). In January 2014, he was elected to a 2-year term as Treasurer of the BIAA. He currently serves on the Board of Directors.

Among Mr. Sherman’s current cases, he is one of the counsel of record in Green, et al. v. Cosby, a case that seeks compensation for injuries to the reputation of 7 Plaintiffs, sustained as a result of the alleged defamatory comments by Defendant Cosby and/or his agents.

NFL ATC Injury Protocol Spotter for Miami Dolphins- Sun Life Stadium, Miami, FL
Former Medical Trainer, Cincinnati Reds, Miami Marlins. Former Athletic Trainer and Assistant Athletic Director for Nova-Southeastern University.

Timothy Neal is a National Athletic Trainers’ Association Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer and is a nationally recognized leader and innovator of athletic health care, athletic risk management, concussion assessment and care, emergency preparedness, physical examinations, athlete cardiac issues, athlete mental health considerations, cost-effective methods in managing medical testing and care, professional staff development, and policy creation. Mr. Neal has written dozens of articles and spoken nationally on various sports medicine topics and risk management issues to national organizations. Head Athletic Trainer at Syracuse University for 14 years

Martin missed only six games in his 14-year playing career (not counting games not played in because of strikes). He played college football at the University of Oregon in the then Pacific-8 Conference and was drafted by the Giants in the 11th round of the 1975 NFL Draft (262nd pick overall). He was a part of the 1986 Giant Team that won a franchise record 14 games. In January 1987, Martin was one of the team captains for the Super Bowl XXI champions; late in the second quarter, Martin sacked Denver QB John Elway in the end zone for a safety, cutting the Broncos' lead to 10-9 where it held until halftime. They were the first two of twenty-six consecutive points scored by the Giants in the game

In November 1988, Martin became the NFL's all-time leader in touchdowns scored by a defensive lineman (DL), with 5, when he returned an interception for 56 yards against the St. Louis Cardinals. (He had previously been tied at 4 with formerDallas Cowboy defensive tackle, Bob Lilly.) In the following championship season, Martin became the league's career leader in TDs scored by a DL as a DL (at 6) when he returned an interception for 78 yards and 6 points in an early season home game against the same Broncos team they defeated in the Super Bowl, a feat which Giant head coach, Bill Parcells, has called the "greatest football play I've ever seen."

Martin's 7 NFL TDs came on 3 interception returns, 2 fumble returns/recoveries, one lateral return following a blocked field goal, and one offensive pass reception (in 1980, lining up as a tight). (In November 2006, Miami’s All-Pro defensive end Jason Taylor broke Martin's career record by notching his 7th defensive touchdown after intercepting a Brad Johnson pass.)
In addition, Martin amassed over 90 quarterback sacks in his Giants career (his official NFL total is 46; the Giants credit him with 96), during which time he was generally regarded as one of the league's most feared pass rushers. In 2004, he was inducted into the Sports Hall Of Fame of New Jersey. Martin is been a resident of Ringwood, New Jersey.

Robert C. Cantu Dr, Cantu is the Medical Director and Director of Clinical Research for the Dr. Robert C. Cantu Concussion Center, Chief of Neurosurgery Service, Associate Chairman Department of Surgery, and Director of Sports Medicine at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts. He is a founder of the Center for the study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University Medical School where he is also a Clinical Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery. He currently serves as Senior Advisor to the NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee; Section Co-Chair Mackey-White National Football League Players Association Health and Safety Committee; -Founder and Medical Director Concussion Legacy Foundation (formally Sports Legacy Institute); Member World Rugby Concussion Advisory Group; Adjunct Professor Exercise and Sport Science and Medical Director National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Co-Director, Neurologic Sports Injury Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Senior Advisor Brain Injury Center and Adjunct Staff, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Vice President Chair Scientific Advisory Committee National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE). He also consults with numerous NFL, NHL and NBA teams. He also is a professional consultant to the USA Rugby Medical & Risk Committee sub-committee for Sports Concussion. He has published over 400 scientific articles including 33 books on Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Sports Medicine. He received his B.A. degree from the University of California Berkley. Jointly, in medical school and graduate school, he received his M.A. degree in endocrinology in 1962, and in 1963, his M.D. from the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. Following a surgical internship at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City in 1963-1964, he began a neurosurgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and simultaneous position of research fellow in physiology at Harvard Medical School. Upon completion of his residency in 1968, he joined the neurosurgery staff at MGH, where his practice and laboratory were located, while assuming the position of Acting Assistant Director of Neurosurgery and Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Boston City Hospital.

Dr. Devick, has founded a series of companies, including Blue Rhino, Platinum technology, and the King-Devick Test, Inc. (KDT) which initially established the relationship between eye movements and reading fluency. KDT has been extensively utilized in measuring saccadic efficiency as it relates to brain functions and has been validated as an objective sideline screening test for concussions. In the last 5 years more than 60 peer reviewed articles have been published in elite medical journals featuring KDT as it relates to mTBI, as a measure of quality of life in MS, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and ALS, in addition to evaluating functionality in hypoxia, extreme sleep deprivation and reading fluency. In 2015, Mayo Clinic, for the first time in its 150 year history, executed a co-branding equity contract with K-D, which is now called the King-Devick Test in Association with Mayo Clinic.

Michael F. Bergeron, Ph.D., FACSM is President and Chief Executive Officer of Youth Sports of the Americas, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.
Internationally recognized for his research and leadership in exercise-heat stress and youth athletic health, Dr. Bergeron co-chaired and is the lead author on the 2015 International Olympic Committee Consensus on Youth Athletic Development. He is a Fellow and past Trustee of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and served a 4-year term as a member of the National Federation of State High School Associations Sports Medicine Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the Medical Advisory Committee for Pop Warner Little Scholars, Inc. and the Academic Advisory Board for the International Olympic Committee postgraduate Diploma Program in Sports Medicine. Dr. Bergeron serves as an Editorial Board member for the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism and Journal of Athletic Training. He also serves as Clinical and Scientific Consultant to the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) professional tour medical services and Heat, Hydration and Research Advisor to Major League Soccer (MLS).

Dr. Bergeron has worked with numerous youth, collegiate, and professional athletes and teams on appropriately and safely enhancing athletic capacity and resilience by providing individualized and sport-specific training and nutrition/hydration guidance, with a particular emphasis on preparation, competition, and recovery strategies in the heat and helping athletes to avoid exertional heat illness and injury. Because of his recognized expertise and reputation among athletes, coaches and sport and sports medicine governing bodies, Dr. Bergeron has been regularly featured as the “go-to” expert resource on myriad national television and radio shows, as well as in numerous online and print media and publications.