Congraulations to Dr. Ann McKee, Director of the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank, for being named a finalist for the 2019 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal for Career Achievement.
Ann McKee, MD, is Professor of Neurology and Pathology at Boston University School of Medicine, Director of Neuropathology for VA Boston, and Director of the BU Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center.
In a statement from the center’s director, Dr. Ann McKee, Nobis brain “showed severe loss of neurons and large CTE lesions throughout the cerebral cortex.”
Dr. Ann McKee, the director of Boston University’s CTE center, said Monday that Nobis had the most severe form of the disease, showing a “severe loss of neurons and large CTE lesions throughout the cerebral cortex.”
After 10 years of studying brains donated by families of deceased military service people, football players, and other contact-sport athletes, researchers from the BU School of Medicine and the VA Boston Healthcare System have amassed more than 600 brains, a collection they say has grown large enough to enable meaningful analysis of the genetics related […]
NAM is made up of more than 2,000 international members elected by their peers, for outstanding achievements in medicine.
The goal of this study is to identify novel biomarkers to distinguish CTE, PART, AGD, ARTAG, and AD.
Congratulations to Dr. Ann McKee who was just announced as the recipient of the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Research at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Chicago! Dr. McKee, is director of Neuropathology for VA Boston Healthcare System and Professor of Neurology and Pathology at Boston University School of Medicine. McKee is […]
Jeff Parker, who played in the N.H.L. from 1986 to 1991 and died last year at age 53, will be seen as another link between hockey head hits and C.T.E.; the league has denied that such a link exists.
Congratulations, Dr. Ann McKee – Named to TIME 100, TIME’S annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world!