CEO Today Global Awards 2023 - USA - - 62 - Bradley Schlaggar Dr CEO and President Kennedy Krieger Institute Dr Bradley Schlaggar, MD, PhD, is the president and chief executive officer of Kennedy Krieger Institute, and holds the Zanvyl Krieger Faculty Endowed Chair at Kennedy Krieger. He is also a professor of neurology and pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. At Kennedy Krieger, Dr Schlaggar leads a team of more than 2,800 full- and part-time staff and faculty members who together advance the organisation’s mission of improving the lives of children, adolescents and adults with disorders, diseases or injuries that impact the nervous system. The Institute serves more than 27,000 patients and students each year from throughout the U.S and around the world. Before joining Kennedy Krieger in 2018, Dr Schlaggar served on the faculty of the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis for two decades, serving in multiple leadership roles as director of the pediatric neurology residency program, head of the division of pediatric and developmental neurology, co-director of the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center and neurologist-in-chief at St Louis Children’s Hospital. A pediatric neurologist, Dr Schlaggar’s clinical expertise is in developmental disorders of cognition, language and movement. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree with honours from Brown University and Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. A developmental neuroscientist, Dr Schlaggar has published nearly 200 papers and is in the top 1% of cited investigators. His research efforts have been directed at understanding the development of the brain’s functional network architecture in typically and atypically developing children. He is a co-founder of the Flux Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience and has been recognised with numerous awards for research, mentorship, clinical care, leadership and community service. These include the Philip R Dodge Young Investigator Award from the Child Neurology Society, the Norman Geschwind Award for Behavioral Neurology from the American Academy of Neurology, the E Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research and the Frank Hatch Award for Outstanding Community Service from the John Merck Foundation. He is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honours society and an inductee in the Association of American Physicians. In his role as an executive, he has been recognised as a 2022 Most Admired CEO and was named to The Daily Record’s 2023 Maryland’s Health Care Power List. www.KennedyKrieger.org
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