BrainCheck Announces 2025 Award Winners, Honoring Leaders Advancing the Future of Cognitive Care

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BrainCheck, the leading digital cognitive assessment and care platform, today announced the winners of its inaugural 2025 BrainCheck Awards, honoring the healthcare professionals, researchers, and organizations setting new standards in cognitive care nationwide.

The BrainCheck Awards celebrate exceptional individuals and practices whose work exemplifies innovation, clinical excellence, and an unwavering commitment to advancing cognitive health. These leaders stand at the forefront of early detection, care planning, technology adoption, and research—driving forward a more modern, accessible, and impactful future for cognitive care.

“Cognitive health is gaining long-overdue recognition as a foundational element of whole-person care—and that progress is propelled by the extraordinary providers and organizations championing it every day,” said Chris Loughlin, CEO of BrainCheck. “This year’s award recipients represent our most dedicated partners, researchers, and innovators. We are honored to celebrate their leadership and their transformative impact on patients and communities.”

2025 BrainCheck Award Winners

Individual Awards

• Cognitive Care Visionary Award: Stacey Epps, MD (Bon Secours Medical Group)
• Cognitive Care Innovator Award: Haroon Hyder, MD (Bon Secours Medical Group)
• Cognitive Care Pioneer Award: Adele Towers, MD (UPMC)
• Cognitive Care Impact Advocate Award: Amy Nasiban (Pacific Oaks Medical Group)
• Cognitive Care Program Director of the Year: Sarah Harlock, MBA (Dent Neurologic Institute)
• Most Outstanding Research Contributor to Cognitive Care: David Drover, MD (Stanford University)
• Most Advanced Patient Care Award: Aryan Kadivar, MD (Kadivar Family Medicine)
• Neurologist of the Year: Noor Yono, MD (Premier Neurology and Wellness Center LLC)
• Primary Care Doctor of the Year: Daniel Morgan, MD (Morgan Hill Family Medicine)
• Psychiatrist of the Year: James Cho, MD (James Cho MD LLC)
• Sports Medicine Doctor of the Year: Nicholas Belasco, DO (Westchester Medical Center)
• Physician Assistant of the Year: Lindsay Domangue, PA-C (Physicians’ Group of the Woodlands)

Practice and Organization Awards

• Best Overall Cognitive Care Practice of the Year: Salerno Medical Associates
• Best Overall Cognitive Care Hospital of the Year: Bon Secours Medical Group
• Best Overall Cognitive Care Primary Care Practice of the Year: Preferred Primary Care
• Best Overall Neurology Practice of the Year: Haynes Neurosurgical Group
• Best Overall Psychiatry Practice of the Year: Frontier Psychiatry

Awardees were selected based on their leadership in research, innovation, and the advancement of evidence-based cognitive health practices, as well as their exceptional use of BrainCheck’s comprehensive cognitive care solutions—including screening, assessment, care planning, and longitudinal tracking. These individuals and organizations represent BrainCheck’s strongest partners and most committed champions, consistently driving meaningful impact for patients and families.

To learn more, visit www.braincheck.com.

About BrainCheck

BrainCheck is a digital cognitive assessment and care platform used by more than 500 primary care practices, neurology groups, psychology and psychiatry clinics, and memory centers nationwide, including Bon Secours, UPMC, and Springfield Clinic. In addition to its FDA Class II medical device, BrainCheck Assess, the platform includes a library of validated screeners and care planning tools that clinicians can combine to create custom assessment protocols tailored to their patient populations. To date, healthcare professionals have completed more than 400,000 cognitive assessments using the BrainCheck platform. BrainCheck is not intended for use as a stand-alone diagnostic tool.