Andrew Lincoln, ScD, MS, is the director of the Sports Medicine Research Center for the MedStar Health Research Institute and research coordinator of the MedStar Sports Medicine Concussion Program. He specializes in the epidemiology and prevention of sports-related injuries and coordinates research activity for both the US Lacrosse Sports Science & Safety Committee and the NFL Cardiovascular Health Subcommittee. He has a Bachelor’s degree in engineering from Virginia Tech, a master’s degree in biomedical engineering from Louisiana Tech, and a doctorate in injury epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University.
(2013 Symposium co-chair)

Margot Putukian, MD, FACSM, is the director of athletic medicine and head team physician at Princeton (N.J.) University and is board certified in internal medicine. Margot is a charter member and past president of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM), and serves on the NFL's Head, Neck & Spine Committee, chairing the Return to Play Subcommittee. Dr. Putukian works as a team physician for US Soccer as well as the U.S. Men's National lacrosse team and chairs the US Lacrosse Sports Science & Safety Committee.
(2013 Symposium co-chair)

Jeffrey S. Mandak, MD, FACC, is a cardiologist with the Fulton County Medical Center in Central Pennsylvania and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Prevention of cardiovascular disease has been a major focus of his clinical practice. Serving on the US Lacrosse Sports Science & Safety Committee and as a guest lecturer in the community and at local colleges, he has worked to decrease the risk of sudden cardiac death in athletes through education to improve response to these catastrophic events.

Douglas McKeag serves as OneAmerica Professor Emeritus of Family And Preventive Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also chairman of the Indiana Schweitzer Fellows Program Advisory Board of Directors, and served as team physician for the 2012 U19 men's lacrosse team that captured the world championship in Finland.


 

Dr. Ruben Echemendia is the director of the National Hockey League’s Neuropsychological Testing Program and chair of the NHL’s Concussion Working Group. 　He is also chair of Major League Soccer's concussion program and is the consulting clinical neuropsychologist to the US Soccer Federation and the U.S. Soccer National Teams. He is the founder of the Penn State University Concussion Program and the consulting neuropsychologist to Princeton University's Department of Athletic Medicine.

Jackie Berning serves as a full professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and is a member of the US Lacrosse Sports Science & Safety Committee. She is currently nutrition consultant for the Colorado Rockies baseball team, and has served in the same role previously with the Cleveland Indians baseball team, the NFL's Denver Broncos, the University of Colorado's athletics department, and USA Swimming.

Richard D. Ginsburg, Ph.D., is the co-director of the MGH PACES Institute of Sport Psychology, director of the MGH Child and Adolescent Group Psychotherapy program, director of psychological services at the MGH Youth Concussion Clinic, and assistant clinical professor of the Harvard Medical School. As a clinical psychologist and sport psychology consultant, Dr. Ginsburg offers a broad range of services to children, adolescents and adults and conducts youth and professional sport research. He is co-author of Whose Game Is It, Anyway? and a member of the US Lacrosse Sports Science & Safety Committee.

Lisa Hepburn, PhD, MPH, is a senior research associate with the Medstar Research Institute, Center for Orthopedic and Sports Health Research. She completed her doctorate at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management and was a post-doctoral associate at the Harvard School of Public Health, Center for Injury Research and Policy. Her research has focused on public health policy, particularly policy evaluation, and injury epidemiology.

Dr. Richard Hinton serves as director of the MedStar Sports Medicine Fellowship in Baltimore and is a member of the executive committee of the US Lacrosse Sports Science & Safety Committee. Additionally, he serves as the head team physician for the U.S. Women’s National lacrosse team, as well as the head team physician for the Towson University men’s and women’s lacrosse teams.

Randy Dick is a Fellow and Board of Trustee with the American College of Sports Medicine and worked for 20 years with the NCAA, managing its sports medicine and injury prevention programs. He is a member of the US Lacrosse Sports Science & Safety Committee and has over 40 peer-reviewed publications and multiple book chapters on a variety of sports medicine issues. He was an invited speaker at the 2008 Third International Conference on Concussion in Sport and has organized Health and Safety Sports Consultants, LLC as a consulting business.

Joseph J. (Trey) Crisco III, Ph.D. is the Henry Frederick Lippitt Professor of Orthopaedic Research, Department of Orthopaedics, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital. Crisco’s research interests are in musculoskeletal bioengineering, where he has developed advanced imaging modalities for the study of in vivo joint mechanics, researched spine biomechanics, injury prevention in sports, and toy systems for use in pediatric rehabilitation. He has coached youth girls' lacrosse for the past 12 years, and played lacrosse at the high school and college level. 

Justin Cooper is an ABPTS Board Certified Sport Medicine Specialist who has worked with scholastic, NCAA, NFL and MLL athletes. He is currently the clinic coordinator at MedStar Harborview Sports Medicine in Baltimore and works closely with the orthopedic surgeons for the Baltimore Ravens and Chesapeake Bayhawks. Justin is also a developer and coordinator of the MedStar ACL program for rehabilitation, research, video analysis and injury prevention. He received his Bachelor's of Science in Kinesiology from the University of Maryland and his Master's of Physical Therapy from the University of North Carolina.

Mandy Merritt, PT, SCS, ATC, is an associate athletic trainer and physical therapist at the University of Notre Dame and has spent the last five years working with the men's lacrosse team. This past summer she was the head athletic trainer for the U.S. U-19 Men's National team which won the World Championship in Turku, Finland. She is currently working on an ACL reduction program to be implemented by the women's teams at Notre Dame as well as carrying out concussion research specifically in men's lacrosse. Previous research includes collecting data for various ACL projects as well as total knee post-op rehabilitation.