Concussion in Sports

Contributors

CONSULTING EDITOR

MARK D. MILLER, MDS.Ward Casscells Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville;Team Physician, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia

GUEST EDITORS

WILLIAM P. MEEHAN III, MDDirector, Sports Concussion Clinic, Division of Sports Medicine, Departmentof Orthopedics; Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine,Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

LYLE J. MICHELI, MDDirector, Division of Sports Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard MedicalSchool, Boston, Massachusetts

AUTHORS

JULIAN E. BAILES, MDProfessor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, West Virginia University,Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, Morgantown, West Virginia

GARNI BARKHOUDARIAN, MDDepartment of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles,California

CHRISTINE M. BAUGH, ABResearch Coordinator, Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, BostonUniversity School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

ROBERT C. CANTU, MDCo-Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Department ofNeurology, Boston; Associate Professor of Neurology and Pathology, Sports LegacyInstitute, Waltham; Clinical Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Boston UniversitySchool of Medicine, Boston; Chief of Neurosurgery Service, Director of Sports Medicine,Department of Neurosurgery, Emerson Hospital; Chairman, Department of Surgery,Emerson Hospital, Concord; Co-Director, Neurologic Sports Injury Center, Departmentof Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

MICHAEL W. COLLINS, PhDAssistant Director, Sports Concussion Program; Associate Professor, Department ofOrthopaedic Surgery and Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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TRACEY COVASSIN, PhD, ATCAssistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing,Michigan

DANIEL H. DANESHVAR, MAMD/PhD Graduate Student, Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy,Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

PIERRE D’HEMECOURT, MDDirector, Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship, Division of Sports Medicine,Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

RJ ELBIN, PhDAssistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology, Leisure and Sport Science,East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee

BRANDON E. GAVETT, PhDInstructor of Neurology, Director of Neuropsychology, Center for the Study of TraumaticEncephalopathy and Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Boston University; Departmentof Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

CHRISTOPHER C. GIZA, MDAssociate Professor-In-Residence, Department of Neurosurgery; Division of PediatricNeurology, Department of Pediatrics; Interdepartmental Programs for Neuroscienceand Biomedical Engineering, UCLA Brain Injury Research Center, Semel Institute,David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Mattel Children’s HospitaleUCLA,Los Angeles, California

KEVIN M. GUSKIEWICZ, PhD, ATCKenan Distinguished Professor and Chair; Director, Matthew Alan Gfeller Sport-RelatedTraumatic Brain Injury Research Center, Department of Exercise and Sport Science,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

DAVID A. HOVDA, PhDProfessor, Departments of Neurosurgery and Medical and Molecular Pharmacology;Interdepartmental Program for Neuroscience, UCLA Brain Injury Research Center,Semel Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California

ERIC W. JOHNSON, PsyDInstructor, Neuropsychology Fellow, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, SportsConcussion Program, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

NATHAN E. KEGEL, MSEdDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Concussion Program, Universityof Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

MARK R. LOVELL, PhDProfessor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery; Director, Sports Concussion Program,University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

PAUL MCCRORY, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FACSP, FACSM, FFSEM,GradDipEpidBiostatsAssociate Professor, Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine and BrainResearch Institute, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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ANN C. MCKEE, MDCenter for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy and Alzheimer’s DiseaseCenter, Boston University; Associate Professor of Neurology and Pathology, Director,Neuropathology Core, Departments of Neurology and Pathology, Boston UniversitySchool of Medicine, Boston; Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bedford,Massachusetts

DAVID F. MEANEY, PhDProfessor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania

WILLIAM P. MEEHAN III, MDDirector, Sports Concussion Clinic, Division of Sports Medicine, Departmentof Orthopedics; Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine,Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

CHRISTOPHER J. NOWINSKI, ABCo-Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Departmentof Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Co-Founder, Sports LegacyInstitute, Waltham, Massachusetts

JOHN ORPHANOS, MDDepartment of Neurosurgery, West Virginia University, Robert C. Byrd Health SciencesCenter, Morgantown, West Virginia

SUMMER D. OTT, PsyDCo-Director, Methodist Hospital Neurological Institute Concussion Center; ClinicalAssistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Texas Medical Branch,Houston, Texas

SANJAY P. PRABHU, MBBS, FRCRStaff Pediatric Neuroradiologist, Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology,Children’s Hospital Boston; Instructor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston,Massachusetts

MARK PROCTOR, MDDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston,Massachusetts

MARGOT PUTUKIAN, MD, FACSMDirector of Athletic Medicine, Head Team Physician, Princeton University, Princeton;Associate Clinical Professor, Robert Wood Johnson, UMDNJ, New Brunswick,New Jersey

CARA L. SEDNEY, MDDepartment of Neurosurgery, West Virginia University, Robert C. Byrd Health SciencesCenter, Morgantown, West Virginia

DOUGLAS H. SMITH, MDProfessor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania

GARY S. SOLOMON, PhDAssociate Professor, Departments of Neurological Surgery and Psychiatry, VanderbiltUniversity School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee

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ROBERT A. STERN, PhDCenter for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy and Alzheimer’s Disease Center,Boston University; Associate Professor of Neurology, Director, Clinical Core, Departmentof Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

ALEX M. TAYLOR, PsyDSports Concussion Clinic, Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Orthopedics;Department of Neurology, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts