Brain and Body Program

As the program manager for the Brain and Body Program, Charlotte serves as the primary contact for all aspects of care coordination, connecting patients with comprehensive, multidisciplinary medical services. She supports intake and scheduling, personalized care management, post-visit follow-up, and continuity of care with home providers. Charlotte is dedicated to providing a seamless, high-quality experience for every patient, from referral through follow-up. She received her BA in neuroscience from Middlebury College, where she completed her thesis examining risk factors for substance use disorder. Previously, Charlotte worked as a student intern in the Neuropathology Core of the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at MGH. She plans to attend medical school in the future.

Molly serves as a clinical nurse for the Brain and Body Program at MGH, where she supports clinical results review, patient education, and medical referral coordination to ensure timely, personalized care. In addition to her role with the Brain and Body Program, Molly works as the clinical nurse for the MGH Sports Concussion Program, guiding athletes through their recovery and return to sports. She holds a BS in Nursing from the MGH Institute of Health Professions and a BS in Kinesiology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She brings clinical expertise from her previous roles in acute care to ensure patients receive clear guidance and individualized care tailored to their needs.

Dr. Daneshvar is director of the HealthSpan Lab, which conducts research on the long-term effects of moderate-severe traumatic brain injury, concussion, and repetitive head impacts, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Dr. Daneshvar has authored and co-authored over 100 scientific papers including in JAMA, Nature Communications, and Brain, for which he received the 2024 National Neurotrauma Society Rising Star Award. His work has been featured broadly including in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and ESPN.

He also founded Team Up Against Concussions, the first scientifically validated concussion education program for kids, for which he received the 2016 Excellence in Public Health award from the United States Public Health Services. He is the Director of the Institute for Brain Research and Innovation at TeachAids, which created CrashCourse: a free, scientifically validated virtual reality and computer-based concussion education program, for which he received the 2021 Dean’s Community Service Award from Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Daneshvar received his SB from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed his MD/PhD at the Boston University CTE Center, where his research resulted in the first dissertation in history to study CTE. He completed residency at Stanford University before joining the faculty at Harvard Medical School.

Michael serves as a care coordinator for Brain and Body patients, assisting with scheduling and appointment navigation. He provides patient support throughout the assessment and helps maintain continuity of high-quality care. Michael received his BS from Baylor in neuroscience while playing Division 1 football, where he developed an interest in performance optimization and restorative medicine. With an interest in traumatic brain injuries, he worked as a Research Assistant in the Human and Environmental Physiology Lab (HEPL) at Baylor, studying the brain's response to environmental stressors. Michael plans to attend medical school in the future.

Dr. Babu is a physiatrist who specializes in the non-surgical management of sports injuries. He works closely with patients, coaches, trainers, physical therapists, and other physicians to develop personalized strategies to help patients get back to the sports they love faster, prevent further injury, and improve performance.

Dr. Babu received his BA Magna Cum Laude from Rutgers University - New Brunswick and his medical degree at Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School as part of the combined BA/MD program. He pursued a residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine/Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, where he served as Chief Resident during his final year. He then completed a fellowship in PM&R Sports Medicine at the Spaulding/Harvard Medical School program. He now serves as the Associate Program Director for the Harvard/Spaulding PM&R Residency Training Program.

Dr. Babu is board certified in PM&R and Sports Medicine. He is a member of the Mass General Sports Medicine Center and is an Instructor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. He serves as a team physician for the New England Revolution MLS team and for the USA Paralympic Soccer team. He also serves as a consultant for the New England Patriots, Boston Bruins, Harvard University, Suffolk University and Curry College.

He has a clinical interest in all aspects of non-operative sports medicine including shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee and ankle injuries. He works closely with patients, coaches, trainers, physical therapists and other physicians to develop personalized strategies to help athletes get back to the sports they love faster, prevent further injury, and improve performance. He has particular expertise in ultrasound-guided interventions, regenerative medicine, and he teaches for several national academies.

Dr. Haylee Borgstrom is a sports medicine physiatrist who specializes in non-surgical treatment of sports and musculoskeletal injuries. As a former athlete herself, she values teamwork - frequently collaborating with coaches, athletic trainers, physical therapists, surgeons and other allied health professionals in order to return athletes to the activities they love as quickly and safely as possible. Additionally, she understands the high physical demands of recovering from injury and is committed to evidence-based care to optimize injury prevention, treatment, and performance.

Dr. Borgstrom received her bachelor’s degree in Exercise Biology, master’s degree in Exercise Science & Biomechanics, and medical degree from the University of California, Davis, where she also competed on the Division I women’s basketball team as team captain. She completed her Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) residency at Harvard Medical School/Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, where she served as chief resident. Following residency, she completed a fellowship in PM&R Sports Medicine at Harvard/Spaulding.

Dr. Borgstrom is board-certified in both PM&R and Sports Medicine. She is a clinical instructor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. She has trained with US Paralympics Track & Field (Athletics) as a medical classifier.

Her clinical and research interests include all aspects of non-surgical sports and musculoskeletal medicine, including diagnosis, management, and prevention of bone, joint, tendon, ligament, and muscle injuries, acute and chronic/overuse injuries, diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound, ultrasound-guided joint and soft tissue injections, and orthobiologic/regenerative treatment options, including PRP (platelet rich plasma) injections. Additionally, she is interested in the influence of gender and disability in sport.

Dr. Chung earned his AB at Harvard College, MSc at the University of Edinburgh, and MD at Jefferson Medical College (Philadelphia, PA). He then completed his residency in Internal Medicine, fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine, and fellowship in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology (EP), all at the Lahey Clinic (Burlington, MA). In 2008, he joined the EP faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Over the next 9 years, as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Medicine, he performed the wide range of EP procedures including device implantation and catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia.

While at UNC, he also served as UNC’s first team cardiologist. In 2017, he was recruited to the University of Michigan to direct expansion of EP services in West Michigan (UM) for Michigan Medicine. Over the subsequent 6 years he led the opening of three new EP labs and was appointed Associate Medical Director for the Cardiovascular Network of West Michigan, a collaboration of between Trinity Health and Michigan Medicine to build new services. He was also Director of the Sports Cardiology Clinic and Team Cardiologist for Michigan Athletics and several other universities and professional teams throughout Michigan. While at UM he was promoted to Clinical Professor and completed a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Population Health Science and a Certificate in Health Care Finance.

In addition to his clinical work in electrophysiology and sports cardiology, Dr Chung has maintained research interests in ECG screening and arrhythmias in athletes. He has been active in the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and American College of Cardiology (ACC), serving as Vice-Chair of the 2024 HRS consensus statement on arrhythmias in athletes and 2020-23 Chair of the ACC Sports and Exercise Cardiology Leadership Council. He is also on the Sports Science and Safety Committee for USA Lacrosse.

Since joining Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in November 2023, Dr Chung continues to practice both clinical EP and sports cardiology. He is the inaugural Director of the Sports Electrophysiology Clinic in the Cardiovascular Performance Program (CPP), which provides comprehensive cardiovascular care for athletes and highly active individuals of all levels.

Timothy Churchill, MD, is a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Churchill specializes in evaluating and treating heart disease in athletes and physically active individuals. His clinical practice is focused on sports cardiology and cardiac ultrasound. He is a member of the Cardiovascular Performance Program, a program within the Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center that provides clinical care and exercise testing for active individuals. He believes strongly in a patient-centered approach to care and sharing the process of medical decision-making with the patient.

Dr. Churchill's research interests center on the impact of exercise on the heart, and he has authored recent publications in JAMA Cardiology, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging.

Dr. Churchill received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and cardiology training including advanced fellowships in sports cardiology and echocardiography (heart ultrasound) at Massachusetts General Hospital.

When Dr. Churchill is not at Mass General, he enjoys spending time outside with his family. He is also a dedicated runner.

Dr. Eric Connors is a clinical neuropsychologist at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and the Mass General Brigham Sports Concussion Clinic. He also serves as an Instructor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. He completed a two-year fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at Home Base, working with Active-Duty Special Operators (e.g., Navy SEALs and Green Berets) and Veterans who had extensive neurotrauma exposure. Following his fellowship, he worked as a staff neuropsychologist for the BIDMC Cognitive Neurology Unit, where he furthered his expertise in traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.

At Spaulding and MGH, Dr. Connors provides neuropsychological services across several programs. Specifically, he delivers neuropsychological services on the inpatient Brain Injury Unit at Spaulding Hospital-Boston and at the MGB Sports Concussion Clinic. He also established the neuropsychology outpatient program at Spaulding Hospital-Cambridge, where he helps individuals recovering from acquired brain injuries successfully return to their daily lives and communities. Additionally, he conducts comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations through the MGH Brain and Body Program, working with former NFL athletes, and via the LEGENDS Clinic, supporting professional athletes from a variety of sports. His clinical and research interests focus on advancing the assessment and treatment of traumatic brain injury, neurovascular conditions, and neurodegenerative disorders.

Rachel Divas, PT, DPT, SCS, grew up in Exton, Pennsylvania where she was a competitive year-round swimmer. Through participation in swimming and a variety of other recreational sports, she sparked a strong interest in pursuing a career in sports medicine. From here, Rachel attended the University of Pittsburgh for her undergraduate degree, earning a Bachelor of Science in Rehabilitation Science and a certificate in Pathokinesiology in Rehabilitation. She then went on to receive her Doctor of Physical Therapy from the University of Pittsburgh.

During her final year of study at Pitt, she completed an internship with the University of Pittsburgh’s men’s football team. Working in a collegiate level athletic training room gave her the opportunity to become a part of a multidisciplinary sports medicine team, providing care for high level athletes both on and off the field. When she wasn’t spending time in the clinic, Rachel enjoyed volunteering for a student run adaptive training program for athletes with disabilities. She also worked for the Physical Therapy department as a teaching assistant for both undergraduate and graduate level courses. Through Rachel’s clinical, volunteer, and work experience she has developed a passion for teaching as well as treating a wide variety of high-level and recreational athletes. Her specific clinical interests are in return to sport following upper extremity injury and overuse injuries as well as integrating rehabilitation with sports performance and strength and conditioning.

Dr. Fadus sees student athletes from Harvard University through the Counseling and Mental Health Services, as well as athletes from other local universities and high schools through Mass General Outpatient Psychiatry Division. He provides psychiatric consultation to professional athletes and coaches and additionally works in the Acute Psychiatric Service in the Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency Department.

Dr. J. Sawalla Guseh, II is a cardiologist whose primary interests include the treatment of patients, professionals, and athletes with varied forms of heart disease. He directs fellowship training within the Cardiovascular Performance Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center.

Dr. Sawalla Guseh received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA) and then completed internal medicine training, cardiovascular disease fellowship training, and sports cardiology fellowship training at the Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA). He served as Chief Medical Resident of the Mass General Internal Medicine Training Program.

His honors and awards include the 2015 Roman W. DeSanctis Clinical Scholar Award and the 2017 American Heart Association’s Laennec Young Clinician Award.

Johnny Jarnagin, MD is a Harvard Medical School Instructor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation and Mass General Brigham, where he specializes in the treatment of general musculoskeletal injuries—both chronic and acute—as well as sports concussion (mild traumatic brain injury). In addition to caring for the general population, Dr. Jarnagin has a particular clinical focus on serving veterans of the U.S. Military with exposure to repetitive head impacts and mild traumatic brain injury through the Home Base Program, a partnership with The Red Sox Foundation and MGH.

Dr. Jarnagin completed residency training at the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation program at Harvard Medical School–Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, before joining the faculty at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Christina Kay is a Staff Neuropsychologist at the MGH Psychology Assessment Center (PAC) and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kay completed undergraduate studies at Tufts University and earned a Master's degree in forensic psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology with specialization in neuropsychology from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. Her clinical training included a neuropsychology internship at MGH and a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at MGH and Brigham and Women's Hospital. She is a licensed clinical psychologist in Massachusetts.

Dr. Kay performs neuropsychological evaluations of adults, including extensive work with the geriatric population. She specializes in neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, and frontotemporal disorders. She also has clinical expertise in autoimmune encephalitis, central nervous system infections, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, functional neurological disorders, and other neuropsychiatric conditions. Dr. Kay's current research aims to identify and better understand long-term cognitive sequelae of autoimmune encephalitis.

Dr. Aditya Kulkarni is a Staff Neuropsychologist at the Psychology Assessment Center of Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His clinical and research focus is on manifestations of neurodegenerative disease in a wide array of medical populations (e.g., neurocognitive disorders as a manifestation of epilepsy, cancer, traumatic brain injury, etc.). He completed his two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Brigham Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology and his predoctoral APA-accredited internship at the VA Maryland Healthcare System/University of Maryland School of Medicine. He earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology, with emphasis in neuropsychology, from the Queens College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Dr. Lars Richardson specializes in athletic and traumatic injuries of the knee and shoulder. He has extensive experience in the care of athletes ranging from professionals to weekend warriors.

Dr. Richardson played lacrosse at Harvard, graduating cum laude in History and Literature. He earned an MD from Columbia Medical School where he was captain and president of the Rugby Football Club. He completed the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program, where he served as Chief Resident at Mass General, running the West Trauma Service. Following his residency, Dr. Richardson completed a six-month foot and ankle fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a year-long fellowship at Mass General in Sports Medicine.

Before coming to Mass General in 2014, Dr. Richardson held a position as Clinical Instructor in Orthopaedics at BIDMC for 12 years. He has been working with the sports teams at Harvard since 2000. With his partner, he provides orthopaedic care for 42 varsity teams and two Rugby clubs. He has also provided orthopaedic care for the Boston Bruins since 2003. He works with multiple local colleges, always trying to get athletes safely and swiftly back to competition.

Dr. Sherman received her Ph.D. from Cornell University and did her clinical postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University Medical School and research fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been a psychologist at MGH since 1989 and has served as director of Neuropsychology at MGH since 1991. Her clinical expertise is in the fields of adult neuropsychology, with specific interests in aphasia, dementing disorders, including Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal dementia, and cerebellar disorders. Dr. Sherman is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School in the department of neurology.

Dr. Tenforde is an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. He is a sports medicine physician at the Spaulding National Running Center—one of the only centers in the United States exclusively dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of running-related injuries. Dr. Tenforde has the unique perspective of being both a doctor and a former professional runner who was an All-American at Stanford University where he contributed to three NCAA National Team Championships and later qualified for the Olympic trials.

Dr. Tenforde’s research has focused on the evaluation of biological and biomechanical risk factors for stress fractures and other running injuries. He is also investigating how to prevent injuries in athletes. His research has been published in many medical journals, including Sports Medicine, American Journal of Sports Medicine and Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. Dr. Tenforde frequently lectures on sports injury and prevention, and when he’s not working, you’ll find him training for the Boston Marathon.

Rory B. Weiner, MD is a non-invasive cardiologist with expertise in echocardiography, quality improvement, and sports cardiology. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He previously served as the Associate Chief for Clinical Operations of the Cardiology Division at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Roman W. DeSanctis Endowed Chair in Cardiology.

Dr. Weiner received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed training in internal medicine, cardiology, and advanced echocardiography at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was also selected to serve as Chief Medical Resident from 2008-2009.

Dr. Weiner is a member of the MGH echocardiography laboratory and the Cardiovascular Performance Program, a clinical program designed to provide comprehensive cardiac care to athletes and active individuals. His clinical interests are in general cardiology, coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease and sports cardiology.

Dr. Weiner is a fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography and the American College of Cardiology. He has authored numerous original research articles and reviews focusing on cardiovascular care in athletes, exercise-induced cardiac remodeling, appropriate use of echocardiography in clinical practice and quality improvement. He has received independent research funding from the Mass General Physicians Organization (MGPO), American Society of Echocardiography, and the American Heart Association. He has been recognized for his teaching contributions to the MGH/Harvard community with several teaching awards.