Dr. John P. Sullivan

Dr. John P. Sullivan is a Sport Scientist and Clinical Sport Psychologist. He has over twenty years of clinical and scholarly experience, and for the past 16 years he has worked with the same team in the National Football League (NFL) coordinating clinical care and sport science. Dr. Sullivan’s experience also includes such work within the National Basketball Association, Major League Soccer, British Premier Soccer League, The English Football Association, Premier Rugby League, Australian Football League and Olympic national teams. He is an expert consultant for the military and law enforcement in regards to both welfare and performance needs.

As the Clinical Sport Psychologist/Sport Scientist for Providence College and University of Rhode Island, he maintains positions in Sports Medicine and Sport Science. He is also the Assistant Director of the South County Sports Medicine Concussion Clinic in Wakefield, Rhode Island.

Dr. Sullivan is a visiting scholar/sport scientist at the Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS) in Brisbane, Australian, examining the current state sport technology in the marketplace and its utility as well as concussion rehabilitation, cognitive training in sport, and sport recovery. He also serves as an Instructor/Supervisor for Brown University Medical School Sports Medicine Fellowship.

Dr. Sullivan is a national and international practitioner-researcher who conducts central nervous system (CNS) measurement/assessment, performance optimization, testing, talent selection, recovery training, and concussion assessment/rehabilitation. He has established expertise with psychophysiological profiling and developing cognitive abilities (e.g., decision making, complex reaction time, and read-and-react abilities) of elite performers. Dr. Sullivan uses various markers such as, Central Nervous Systems Assessment - DC Potential, Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Electroencephalography (EEG), Accelerometry/GPS, Multiple Object Tracking (MOT), Optic Flow (OF), and biofeedback to determine optimal training loads, recovery interventions, and maintaining as well as enhancing cognitive capabilities in performance environments.

He is a frequent contributor writing on sport science and sports medicine for peer review journals and popular press. Recently he has co-authored a book focusing on the latest cognitive scienceand neuroscience related to optimal brain performance entitled The Brain AlwaysWins published by Urbane Publishing London UK Ltd.