Dr. Paul Berkner is the Director of Health Services at Colby College in Waterville, Maine and a co-founder of the Maine Concussion Management Initiative in 2009.  
 
Dr. Berkner received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his residency at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. He practiced with Middlebury Pediatric Medicine in Middlebury, Vermont before coming to Colby.
 
Dr. Berkner specializes in pediatrics and formed the Maine Concussion Management Institute (MCMI) along with Joseph Atkins, Ph.D, a psychologist and Dean of Students at Colby and William Heinz, M.D., a medical orthopedist with OA Associates for Orthopedics in Portland. 
 
The mission of MCMI is:
To improve the safety of Maine’s youth by increasing awareness, promoting advocacy, and standardizing the management of activity-related concussions.
 
MCMI works with schools – their administrators, coaches, athletic trainers, nurses, parents, and athletes (along with the medical community) to reduce the real and lasting dangers of traumatic brain injury. This work is done through education, outreach and advocacy. They succeed with input from multiple disciplines and interested parties, including an involved and active board of directors.
 
As time moved forward, and with the support of the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement at Colby, so did MCMI. This growing organization – allied with and based at Colby – went on to earn the trust and participation of more than 100 Maine high schools and middle schools. MCMI continues to educate coaches, athletic trainers, trained local doctors and school nurses on the risk and signs of concussions.
 
Secondary schools in greater Portland who participate in MCMI include: Deering, Portland, Westbrook, Falmouth, Yarmouth, Cape Elizabeth, Gorham, Greely, NYA, Waynflete, Scarborough and South Portland.
Presently, MCMI is collaborating with the Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s and Spaulding Rehabilitation hospitals on groundbreaking new concussion research.