Gracie is a PhD candidate in the Clinical Neurotrauma Lab, where her research focuses on the neurological, cognitive, and mental health consequences of sports-related head impacts across the lifespan. She has served as a site leader for a large, multi-site R01 that investigated the effects of subconcussive head impacts in high school football players. Running large data collection events that included collection of blood, saliva, and mental health assessments. In addition to that work, she has led two independent pilot studies: the first examined the effects of lifetime exposure to sports-related head impacts in middle-aged male and female amateur athletes. The second, the ongoing expansion of the aforementioned work, focuses specifically on middle-aged female athletes to explore sex-specific vulnerabilities to long-term neurological consequences. Gracie also brings advanced expertise in biostatistics and neuroimaging to all aspects of her research. She has conducted complex statistical analyses for multiple large-scale studies, including the high school football R01 and her own investigator-led pilot studies. In addition, to her primary research, she frequently supports other lab members with statistical modeling, data visualization, and methodological guidance, serving as a statistical consultant within the lab. Her work leverages longitudinal modeling, mixed-effects models, and neuroimaging-derived metrics to examine both structure and function over time in contact athletes and matched controls. Gracie is particularly interested in identifying in vivo biomarkers that can detect the long-term effects of repetitive head trauma, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in living individuals.