About NPG Brain & Concussion

An Affiliate of Hilinksi’s Hope

For the team at NPG, the mission to change the way the world treats concussions is personal.

In 2018, the son of one of our founders, Mark Hilinski, took his own life while in college as a football player. An autopsy later showed that he was suffering from CTE, a brain condition that can develop after receiving multiple blows to the head and can have significant effects on mental health. This tragic event led Mark and his wife, Kym, to start a nonprofit called Hilinski's Hope, which aims to raise awareness and challenge the stigma surrounding mental health among student athletes. NPG is an extension and the next stage of that mission.

For the rest of our team, we have each worked closely with the brain through our careers, and we believe, wholeheartedly, that an athlete's brain deserves the best care that modern medicine has to offer. The way we see it... to protect this part of their body is, literally, to protect who they will become in the future.

This task can't wait. Something must change. We WILL do whatever it takes to see that change through.

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