Forum on sports-related concussions will feature NFL alum Koonce
Event Information:Date: Monday, Jan. 28, 2013
Time: 7:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Place: Alumni Memorial Union
Ballroom, 3rd floor
Panelists will address the seriousness of traumatic brain injury in athletics
MILWAUKEE – George Koonce, former NFL linebacker and current member of the NFL’s Player Engagement Advisory Board who earned his Ph.D. from Marquette in 2012, will join a panel of experts for the College of Health Sciences’ next “Marquette Presents” breakfast forum: Concussion – Societal Impact of Sports-related Mild Traumatic Brain Injury,” Monday, Jan. 28, at 7:15 a.m. in the third-floor ballroom of the Alumni Memorial Union, 1442 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee.
The forum, which is free and open to the public, includes a complimentary continental breakfast and parking in the 16th Street parking structure, located between Wisconsin Ave. and Wells Street. Registration is required and available online.
In view of increasing media accounts of sports-related concussions causing concern among athletes, coaches, parents and the medical community, panelists will discuss the long-term effects of concussion, what the impact is on the developing brain and what can be done to prevent one.
Dr. William Cullinan, dean of the College of Health Sciences, will moderate the panel of experts in neuroscience, health, athletic training and sports law. They include:
- Dr. Michael McCrea, professor of neurosurgery and neurology and director of brain injury research, Medical College of Wisconsin; research neuropsychologist, Clement Zablocki VA Medical Center
- Dr. George E. Koonce, Jr., director of development, Marquette University; former NFL linebacker and member of the NFL’s Player Engagement Advisory Board
- David Leigh, clinical assistant professor and assistant athletic trainer, Marquette University
- Matthew Mitten, professor of law and director of the National Sports Law Institute, Marquette University
- Carolyn Smith, M.D., executive director of Student Health Service and clinical professor in the College of Health Sciences, Marquette University
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