Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu // ⓘ (born September 30, 1968 [1]) 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. [2]

2015年12月23日 · 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.

2020年1月22日 · Omalu repeatedly has cited data that he claims show children who play these sports are at increased risk to see their lives unravel from mental illness, substance abuse or other struggles.

2013年10月6日 · 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. That...

Dr. Omalu's finding of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in Webster's brain and his subsequent battles with forces aligned with the NFL over the condition's nature and magnitude are portrayed partly as a loss of innocence.

2023年9月10日 · Dr. Bennet Omalu, whose groundbreaking CTE research was immortalized on screen by Will Smith in the 2015 film Concussion, provided expert testimony on head trauma, while leaning on his extensive history of performing autopsies, during the murder trial of …

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Omalu is a fellow of the American Association of Physician Leadership, is board-certified in Medical Management and is a Certified Physician Executive. He has received three honorary doctorate degrees in addition to numerous other awards across the world.

2020年6月8日 · Dr. Omalu is the President and Medical Director of Bennet Omalu Pathology and is a Clinical Professor of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, Davis medical school.

That conversation continues this month with the upcoming release of Concussion — starring Will Smith as Dr. Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist who first found the disease at the center of the...