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“Inside the Helmet” Lecture
Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m.
Wright Center Concert Hall
Samford University’s Howard College of Arts and Sciences will host noted neuropathologist Dr. Ann McKee for the 2013 J. Roderick Davis Lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 10 in the Wright Center Concert Hall. McKee specializes in the study of traumatic brain injury and its long-term consequence, chronic traumatic encephalopathy. McKee’s lecture, “Inside the Helmet: Repeated Head Trauma and Degenerative Brain Disease,” comes amidst growing concerns about the effects of head trauma in sports at all levels of play as well as in military combat. McKee is Professor of Neurology and Pathology at VA Boston HealthCare System and Boston University School of Medicine. For more information, visit www.samford.edu.
