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Coming Home Well podcast features Dr. Ann McKee talking veterans, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy & Traumatic Brain Injury
This week’s Coming Home Well podcast features Dr. Ann McKee talking veterans, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy & Traumatic Brain Injury – Click HERE to listen.
Results of autopsy show Chris Gedney had Stage 2 CTE
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 Urges MED Graduates to Speak Up for the Voiceless “Tell the hard truth, and tell it over and over and over, until people listen and it is heard”
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.
Congratulations Dr. Ann McKee, for being named a finalist for the 2019 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal for Career Achievement
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.
Congratulations to Dr. Ann McKee, MD for being appointed the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professors Award. This is the highest recognition that Boston University bestows on a faculty member!
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.
Before CTE diagnosis, Tommy Nobis’ family was troubled by his behavior
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.”
A Somber Super Bowl Reminder In ‘Mr. Falcon’ CTE Diagnosis
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.”
BU CTE Center researchers have identified a gene linked to CTE-related outcomes
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 […]
Congratulations Dr. Ann McKee, Director of the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank for being elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
NAM is made up of more than 2,000 international members elected by their peers, for outstanding achievements in medicine.