Co-founder and COO

Malayka Gormally co-founded Concussion Alliance with her son Conor Gormally in 2018 after becoming a knowledgeable and passionate patient advocate for Conor when they developed persisting symptoms after concussion. Malayka Gormally serves as the Chief Operating Officer for Concussion Alliance, overseeing bookkeeping, accounting, and compliance, while collaborating with the team on budgeting. She is the primary designer and webmaster of ConcussionAlliance.org, and collaborates with Conor to edit and update the website. Malayka serves as the executive editor of the Concussion Update Newsletter, the organization’s biweekly newsletter providing accessible synopses of recent research and concussion-related news. With Conor, Malayka has assembled a diverse team, including the Board of Directors, the Expert Advisory Board, and the visiting internship faculty (guest speakers and mentors).

Malayka is the author of the website’s most-read resource, Guidelines for Recovery. She has co-authored several professional abstracts and collaborated on the design of the posters for these abstracts, working with Conor to present them at national and international brain injury conferences. Subsequently, the abstracts have been published in the journals Brain Injury and The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. She has collaborated on the content development and slide deck design of numerous Concussion Alliance presentations for national and international webinars, conferences, and medical school presentations. Malayka worked with Board Chair Elizabeth Sandel, MD, and Conor to develop the content for a Concussion Alliance CME and webinar.

Before Concussion Alliance, Malayka was a serial small business entrepreneur, including a successful career as a visual artist. She spent eight years (in her twenties) cross-country skiing on a regional and national level. Malayka is an alumna of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA.

Poster presentations and published abstracts:

2025, Co-author, Bridging a gap in concussion resources: Introducing the first disability-centered concussion resource for patients. Conor and Malayka presented the poster at the 15th World Congress on Brain Injury, Montreal, Canada, March 18 - 23, 2025. Publication of the abstract by Conor Gormally, Osman Ahmed, Malayka Gormally, and Angela Romeo will be in the journal Brain Injury.

2023, Co-author, Filling a gap: a unique, evidence-based resource for college students with all-cause concussion,. Malayka was part of a three-person team that presented a poster of the abstract at the 14th World Congress on Brain Injury in Dublin, Ireland, March 29 - April 3, 2023. The abstract, by Conor Gormally, Malayka Gormally, Kaori Hirano, Kira Kunzman, and Elizabeth Sandel, MD, was published in the September 29th, 2023, supplemental volume of the journal Brain Injury.

2022, Collaborator on the abstract concept and the poster design, Patient and Provider Reflections on Improving Care for Persistent Post-Concussion Symptoms. The abstract was published in The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation after Conor and Malayka presented it as a poster at the 2022 Joint Congress on Brain Injury, September 21-24, in NYC.

2021–2022, Co-author, Bringing Concussion Education and Advocacy to the Next Generation of Healthcare and Public Health Professionals: Concussion Alliance’s Novel Service Learning Undergraduate Internship. Conor Gormally made an oral presentation for the 2021 IBIA Virtual World Congress on Brain Injury. The abstract, by Conor Gormally, Elizabeth Sandel, MD, and Malayka Gormally, was published on Feb 24, 2022, in the journal Brain Injury.