Dr. Brenda Eagan-Johnson, Ed.D., CBIST-AP, is a nationally recognized expert in pediatric traumatic brain injury, neurodevelopment, and school functioning following concussion and acquired brain injury. She has over three decades of experience working with children, adolescents, and young adults with mild, moderate, and severe brain injuries and serves nationally as a medicolegal consultant and expert witness in pediatric brain injury litigation.

Dr. Eagan-Johnson specializes in the educational, neurodevelopmental, executive functioning, and long-term functional impacts of a pediatric brain injury. Her work focuses on translating complex brain injury findings into understandable, evidence-based opinions regarding school performance, cognitive functioning, behavior, educational accommodations, future needs, and long-term life outcomes following injury.

Dr. Eagan-Johnson has led Pennsylvania's BrainSTEPS Brain Injury School Consulting Program as its Director for more than 20 years. BrainSTEPS is a statewide program funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Bureau of Special Education, and the Pennsylvania Department of Health and supports students with brain injuries across all 500 Pennsylvania public school districts. In this role, she trains and oversees multidisciplinary educational consulting teams serving students following traumatic brain injury (including concussion) and non-traumatic brain injury.

Dr. Eagan-Johnson earned her Doctor of Education degree in Mind, Brain, and Teaching (educational neuroscience) from Johns Hopkins University and her master’s degree in Special Education Transition and Brain Injury from The George Washington University, where she then served as an adjunct instructor in the graduate program. She is a Certified Brain Injury Specialist Trainer with Advanced Practice in NeuroRehabilitation (CBIST-AP), the highest certification awarded by the Brain Injury Association of America.

Dr. Eagan-Johnson was part of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Common Data Element (CDE) TBI v3.0 Working Group that was conducted in 2025-2026. Dr. Eagan-Johnson serves on the International Pediatric Brain Injury Society board of governors and just finished her first 6-year term on the Academy of Brain Injury Specialists board of governors under the Brain Injury Association of America. She was an expert external reviewer for the CDC Report to Congress on the Management of Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and currently serves as an expert for several CDC-funded research studies. Dr. Eagan-Johnson was charged with leading the first National Return-to-Learn Concussion Consensus under the National Collaborative on Children’s Brain Injury, a group she also co-leads.

Dr. Eagan-Johnson has authored and presented extensively on pediatric brain injury, concussion, executive functioning, and school reintegration following injury. She has trained thousands of school-based professionals nationwide and received multiple state and national awards for her contributions to pediatric brain injury and concussion management.