ABOUT US

Founded in 2017, Highmark Interactive was created to change the paradigm of neurological testing and management. The company vision was to become leaders in digital diagnostics and therapeutics by fusing the engagement of mobile gaming with machine learning.

The core team assembled were world class leaders in their respective fields, including:

Neurosurgeons, neurologists, neuropsychologists, functional neurologists, and sports medicine physicians; all recognized leaders in healthcare.
Mathematicians, machine learning PhD’s from US and Canadian universities, culminating in a partnership with Canada’s leading technology institution, The University of Waterloo.
Acquisition of a company with a team of mobile gaming software developers who, collectively had over 80 million downloads of games they had previously produced.

Collectively, we meticulously built, tested, studied and refined the world’s first mobile, gamified, FDA-cleared neuro-diagnostic software:

OUR Leadership team

Dr.Sanjeev Sharma

Co-founder and CEO

Sunil Sharma

Co-founder

Don Harkness

CFO

Mike Affleck

Vice President of Sales

David Crane

Sr. Director of Product

OUR professional advisory board

Dr. Christopher C. Giza

Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Neurosurgery

UCLA

Dr. Grant L. Iverson

Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Harvard Medical School

Dr Karen Barlow

Chair of Paediatric Rehabilitation and Associate Professor

University of Queensland Child Health Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Frederick Carrick

Senior Research Fellow

Cambridge University, UK

Dr. Mihaly Kis

Neurosurgeon

Trilium Health Partners

How did EQ come to be?

Highmark’s Co-Founder, Dr. Sanjeev Sharma, discusses how a concerning experience with his own daughter inspired his need to create EQ.

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Dr. Christopher Giza graduated from Dartmouth College, received his M.D. from West Virginia University and completed his training in Neurology at UCLA. He then worked on the Yosemite Search and Rescue team before joining the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center in 1998. He served on the California State Athletic Commission from 2005-2015, and traveled to Afghanistan in 2011 as a civilian advisor to the Department of Defense. He founded and directs the UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT program, and serves as Medical Director for the Operation MEND-Wounded Warrior Project mild TBI program. Dr. Giza co-authored concussion / mild TBI guidelines for the American Academy of Neurology, Centers for Disease Control and the Concussion in Sport Group (Berlin guidelines), and has been a clinical consultant for the NFL, NHL/NHLPA, NBA, MLB and Major League Soccer. He is a Professor of Pediatric Neurology and Neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Christopher C. Giza

MD Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Neurosurgery, UCLA

Dr. Noah Silverberg is a Clinical Associate Professor of Physical Medical and Rehabilitation at the University of British Columbia and Principal Investigator in the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute Rehabilitation Research Program. The focus of his research is concussion/mild traumatic brain injury prognosis, treatment, and knowledge translation. His research program is supported by a Health Professional Investigator Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and project funding from the multiple agencies, including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Silverberg is a recognized expert in mild traumatic brain injury. He was an invited expert panel member on the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (3rd Edition) clinical practice guidelines and serves as Chair of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Mild TBI Task Force. From 2015-2016, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. He is an Associate Editor for the Neurorehabilitation section of the journal Frontiers of Neurology, and has extensive peer-review experience with numerous journals (e.g., New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Neurotrauma) and grant agencies (e.g., Canadian Institutes of Health Research and United States Department of Defense). Dr. Silverberg practices as a board-certified (ABPP-CN) neuropsychologist at GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre, British Columbia’ tertiary rehabilitation hospital. He also has a private neuropsychology consulting practice involving professional athletes (National Hockey League and Major Soccer League) as well as personal injury and worker’s compensation claimants with mild traumatic brain injury.

Dr. Noah Silverberg

Clinical Associate Professor of Physical Medical and Rehabilitation, University of British Columbia

Dr. Mihaly Kis is a neurosurgeon with Trillium Health Partners based in Mississauga, Ontario. He graduated Magna Cum Lauda with a BSc in Anatomy and Cell Biology from McGill University in 2000, before completing his MD at Queen's University in 2004. Dr. Kis then specialized in Neurosurgery at Dalhousie University from 2004-2010, and a sub-specialty in pituitary microsurgery from 2010-2011. Dr. Kis is now a staff neurosurgeon at Trillium Health Partners, and their Surgical Director of the Neuropituitary program. He is also neurosurgery lecturer at the University of Toronto. He has been focused on concussion for many years and holds international patents for a revolutionary helmet testing device designed for concussion prevention. Dr. Kis is an expert reviewer for the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, and has multiple peer reviewed publications in the field of concussion prevention and sports helmet safety testing. He is a frequent presentor at national neurosurgical conferences on the topic of helmet testing, concussion prevention and remote presence robotics.

Dr. Mihaly Kis

Neurosurgeon, Trillium Health Partners