Malayka Gormally
Malayka Gormally and Conor Gormally, attending the 15th World Congress on Brain Injury, Montreal, Canada
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 a 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 bi-weekly newsletter, which provides accessible synopses of recent research and concussion-related news.
Malayka 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. After the conferences, the journals Brain Injury and The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation published the abstracts. She has collaborated on the content development and slide deck design for numerous Concussion Alliance presentations, including 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 and The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.
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 29, 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 February 24, 2022, in the journal Brain Injury.