Kelsey Goostrey

Background

Kelsey is a Research Program Manager at the BU CTE Center, managing the BANK CTE and DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project Part II studies. She graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 2018 with a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology, and completed her Masters in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2021.  Prior to working at the CTE Center, Kelsey worked as a research coordinator in the Neurocritical Care Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and in the Neurorehabilitation Laboratory at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.

Research Interests

Kelsey is interested in implementation science, particularly focusing on effective methods to communicate our research findings to the wider community, healthcare professionals, and government bodies, and working together to create evidence-based policy. She is also interested in the long-term clinical and neuropathological effects of repetitive head trauma in ice hockey players.

Noteworthy Publications

1. Goostrey, K., Lee, CM., Jones, K., Quinn, T., Moskowitz, J., Pach, JJ., Knies, AK., Shutter, L., Goldberg, R., Mazor, K., Hwang, DY., Muehlschlegel, S. Adapting a Traumatic Brain Injury Goals-of-Care Decision Aid for Critically Ill Patients to Intracerebral Hemorrhage and Hemispheric Acute Ischemic Stroke. Critical Care Explorations. (2021). Crit Care Explor. 2021 Mar; 3(3): e0357. doi: 10.1097/CCE.0000000000000357. PMID: 33786434
2. Goostrey, K., Muehlschlegel, S. Prognostication and Shared Decision Making in Neurocritical Care: A Narrative Review of Key Points (Invited State-of-the-Art Review). (2022). BMJ.377:e060154. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-060154. PMID: 35696329