Biography
Bio:
Katherine Price Snedaker, LCSW, is the Executive Director and Founder of PINK Concussions, a 501c3 non-profit, for female brain injury from sport, domestic violence/assault, accidents or military service. Snedaker is an international speaker, brain injury professional, researcher, brain injury survivor and parent of a child with a brain injury. Snedaker has presented on sex differences in brain injury at conferences including ones by United States Department of Veterans Affairs VA, Boston Children’s Hospital, Ohio State University, and the International Brain Injury Association IBIA.
PINK Concussions is a non-profit to focus on female brain injury including concussions from sport, domestic violence, accidents or military service. PINK Concussions’ mission is to drive change and innovation to develop sex/gender-appropriate, evidence-based research approaches on identification, management and support of women and girls with brain injuries.
Title:
PINK Concussions Keynote Lecture: Sex and Gender Differences in Brain Injury, and Why it Matters
Description:
This presentation will provide a broad overview of sex and gender differences in brain injury between men and women based on current scientific research and Katherine’s experience working with the thousands of women in the PINK Concussions Support Groups. Katherine will address why these differences are important for patients, families and clinicians to consider in care plans for women and girls.
The audience will leave with understanding how lack of education and awareness about these differences can lead to a patient’s unrealistic expectations of recovery time and an underestimation of the need for support from family and school/work. In addition, a lack of training in a medical professional in these differences can inhibits diagnosis and appropriate intervention across the care continuum and affects the development and delivery of appropriate healthcare service.