About HEADCHECK Health: Our Story & Concussion Management Mission

Our Story

In 2012, HEADCHECK Health co-founders Harrison Brown and Kerry Costello began working towards building a better concussion diagnostic test for use on the sidelines of sports activities.

They spent that year reaching out to sports organizations stakeholders to validate their concept and received some surprising feedback. While there was strong support for the test they were developing, potential users also spoke of the need for an all-in-one platform that could incorporate the new test alongside the other tests and processes they were already performing to manage concussions. Harrison and Kerry emerged from these talks with a laser-focused desire to build better concussion testing tools and a platform that could incorporate all aspects of concussion management in one place.

A rugby player in his early years, Harrison played on the Hong Kong National Team and University of Guelph Varsity team while pursuing his Bachelor of Science degree.

In University, Harrison began to specialize in Neurophysiology, leading him to pursue Masters of Science and PhD studies in the University of British Columbia’s Sensorimotor Physiology Lab. Supported by his thesis advisors and mentors, Dr. Jean-Sébastien Blouin, Dr. Gunter Siegmund, and Dr. Michael Koehle, Harrison was involved in a wide variety of concussion-related research. These included head impact monitoring, diagnostic accuracy of commonly used concussion tests, utility of baseline testing, and the identification of concussions through objective balance error measurement.