People | After his second head injury in just five days, a concussion expert says Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is at too high of a risk for severe brain damage to play the rest of the season. Read more.
United Soccer Coaches Podcast | Listen to Dr. Ann McKee and Matthew Roebuck of the BU CTE Center on the United Soccer Coaches Podcast. Listen now.
Alzheimer’s Research UK | Dr. Ann McKee and Dr. Robert Stern were on an Alzheimer’s Research UK panel. See the full report here.
Ann McKee, MD, Chief of Neuropathology for VA Boston Healthcare System and Director of the BU CTE Center, has been named a 2019 Service to America Medalist and received the Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement Medal from the Partnership for Public Service.
Study shows hockey great Stan Mikita suffered from CTE.
The biggest stars in the world are pledging their brains. Young players are leaving the game with their destinies unfulfilled. The stories they tell spark fear and raise questions. And the science hasn’t even begun to provide answers.
Hall of Fame linebacker pledged to donate his brain to BU CTE Center for research
This week’s Coming Home Well podcast features Dr. Ann McKee talking veterans, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy & Traumatic Brain Injury – Click HERE to listen.
The autopsy, performed by Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist in neuro-degenerative disease at Boston University, shows the 47-year-old had Stage 2 Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease, likely caused by repeated head traumas.
Ann McKee, a William Fairfield Warren professor, described the path that led her to become a physician and scientist and how she came to research chronic traumatic encephalopathy during her address at the School of Medicine MD/PhD Convocation May 16.