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]

2016年11月12日 · 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.

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.

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BENNET I. OMALU, MD, MBA, MPH, CPE, DABP-AP,CP,FP,NP Anatomic Pathologist/ Clinical Pathologist/ Forensic Pathologist/ Neuropathologist/ Epidemiologist Associate Clinical Professor of Pathology, University of California, Davis [UC-Davis] Chief Medical Examiner, San Joaquin County, California Co-Founder, TauMark, Inc, Better Brain Diagnostics

Dr. Bennet Omalu holds four board certifications in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Forensic Pathology and Neuropathology. He also holds a Masters in Public Health [MPH] in Epidemiology and a Masters in Business Administration [MBA] from the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University.

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.

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.

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2015年12月27日 · Smith portrays Dr. Bennet Omalu, the Nigerian immigrant who was the first to publish research on the degenerative brain disease he called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Omalu, a...

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 …

As chronicled in the film Concussion (starring Will Smith), Dr. Bennet Omalu’s story is one of great triumph in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Born in 1968 in Eastern Nigeria during the civil war, his family lived as refugees, his town under constant fire by the Nigerian Air Force.

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....

2015年12月24日 · Dr. Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist who first identified CTE in a pro football player and is played by Will Smith in the movie “Concussion,” is photographed at the Fairmont Miramar ...

BENNET I. OMALU, MD, MBA, MPH, CPE, DABP-AP,CP,FP,NP Anatomic Pathologist/ Clinical Pathologist/ Forensic Pathologist/ Neuropathologist/ Epidemiologist Clinical Professor of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Davis [UC-Davis] Chief Medical Examiner, San Joaquin County, California

2017年9月28日 · Dr. Bennet Omalu practices the science of death. He is a forensic pathologist and investigates the specific cause and manner of death, particularly in cases where it has not occurred by natural causes. He has investigated over …

2017年5月23日 · Dr. Bennet Omalu, the famed forensic pathologist who discovered Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), recently spoke at NCI at Frederick about his upbringing as well as the trials he faced while working to educate the NFL about CTE.

Get the backstory on the real Dr. Bennet Omalu through these eight takeaways from his in-depth interview with FRONTLINE’s Michael Kirk: Omalu grew up in Nigeria and knew next to nothing about...

Neuropathologist Bennet Omalu, MD, MBA, MPH, discusses the trajectory of a career that took him from an impoverished childhood in Nigeria to identifying chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in football players. He urges neurologists to pursue the “humanity of science.”

Dr. Omalu, who now lives and works in the United States, is an established expert on the relationship between sports-related head trauma and CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), a concussion syndrome that produces cognitive decline and other symptoms.