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Dr. Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu // ⓘ (born September 30, 1968) is a Nigerian-American physician, forensic pathologist, and neuropathologist who was the first to discover and publish findings on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players while working at the Allegheny County coroner's office in Pittsburgh. He later became the chief medical examiner for San Joaquin County ...
Nov 12, 2016 · The physician who made the initial discovery, forensic neuropathologist Bennet I. Omalu, MD, MBA, MPH, overcame massive efforts to discredit him and his research, and today CTE is widely recognized as a health risk in millions of patients with histories of repetitive brain trauma, including military veterans.
Dr. Omalu provides answers to parents who fear that contact sports might cause injuries that have long-term effects. Should your child play football, ice hockey, mixed martial arts, boxing, wrestling, rugby, gymnastics, soccer, lacrosse, BMX bike riding, trampoline jumping and gymnastics or other sports?
Dec 23, 2015 · Bennet Omalu discovered Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in former football players, sparking years of denial from the NFL and the creation of a movie about his life's work.
Oct 6, 2013 · Growing up in Nigeria, Dr. Bennet Omalu knew next to nothing about American football. He didn’t watch the games, he didn’t know the teams, and he certainly didn’t know the name Mike Webster.
Jan 22, 2020 · In 2017, Bennet Omalu traveled the globe to accept a series of honors and promote his autobiography, “Truth Doesn’t Have A Side.” In a visit to an Irish medical school, he told students he ...
Seeking Truth. A scene early in the movie Concussion shows forensic pathologist and neuropathologist Bennet Omalu, MD, played by Will Smith, driving a car as the reflection of an airliner passes across the windshield. "For most people this meant nothing," Dr. Omalu writes in Truth Doesn't Have a Side: My Alarming Discovery about the Danger of Contact Sports (HarperCollins, 2017).
Sep 14, 2009 · On a foggy, steel gray Saturday in September 2002, Bennet Omalu arrived at the Allegheny County coroner’s office and got his assignment for the day: Perform an autopsy on the body of Mike ...
A forensic pathologist, Omalu conducted the autopsy of Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster, which led to his discovery of a new disease that he named chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
Omalu thought the NFL would be eager to engage with his research. “I thought naively that discovery of new information, unraveling new information, redefining concepts, I thought the football ...
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