Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu was born in September of 1968 in Idemili South, Nigeria. His mother was a seamstress and his dad was John Donatus Amaechi Omalu, a civil engineer. Omalu is number six of seven children. His siblings are just as intelligent and educated as he is, with doctorates and a plethora of other degrees. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Nigeria, his Master’s of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh and his Master’s of Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University. He is board certified in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Forensic Pathology and Neuropathology. He is also a Certified Physician Executive. He currently works as Chief Medical Examiner of San Joaquin …show more content…
Omalu first discovered CTE when performing an autopsy on former football player Mike Webster. When initially examining the body, nothing seemed peculiar. It was until Omalu studied Webster’s brain tissue that he would find out just how bad off Webster was. When the NFL heard of Omalu’s discovery, they were surprised. However they were not touched enough to transform the professional football industry. Omalu received a lot of opposition from the NFL and was discouraged to continue research by being called a voodooist and a fraudulent doctor with faulty research. In the midst of the uproar, Omalu stated, “I wish I never met Mike Webster….You can’t go against the NFL. They will squash you.” However, he kept on. When another former football player, Terry Long, committed suicide and was admitted to Dr. Omalu’s hands, CTE was found yet again which strengthened Omalu’s case as well as the NFL’s opposition. After Long, another football player, Andre Waters, died and was studied by Omalu. CTE was found once more. Suddenly the doctor had a case series. His theory was gaining
Omalu attempts once again to show the NFL doctors and scientists that these changes in the brain cause the brain cells to suffocate .In return the NFL attacked Dr. Omalu and asked him to retreat his published findings, but the findings were not extracted.
He Appeals to Logos when he writes, “Over the past two decades it has become clear that repetitive blows to the head in high-impact contact sports like football, ice hockey, mixed martial arts and boxing place athletes at risk of permanent brain damage….Why, then, do we continue to intentionally expose our children to this risk?” He continues by writing, “If a child who plays football is subjected to advanced radiological and neurocognitive studies, there can be evidence of brain damage at the cellular level of brain functioning…. If that child continues to play over many seasons, these cellular injuries accumulate to cause irreversible brain damage, which we know now by the name Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy,” a disease founded by Dr.Omalu in 2002. C.T.E can cause “major depression, memory loss, suicidal thoughts and actions, loss of intelligence as well as dementia later in life.” C.T.E has also been linked to “drug and alcohol abuse as children enter their 20s, 30s, and 40s.” Dr.Omalu Appeals to Ethos when he writes, “As physicians, it is our role to educate” and “protect the most vulnerable among
A big part of the NFL’s hold on players is their contracts and money. Thousands of young men aspire to be on a professional team, just for the fame, money and title. They are not made aware of the lasting conditions that come with playing football and their everlasting effects. If anything, the NFL has gone out of their way to discredit the newer research that links playing football with CTE. CTE stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is a disease that has the same effects as dementia and Alzheimer’s, except that CTE leaves tau protein deposition in distinctive areas of the brain, which is what separates CTE from dementia and Alzheimer’s....
CTE is a progressive neurodegenerative disease which has not been found in football players until recently. It was stated in the episode, “Repetitive brain trauma starts this cascade of events in the brain that changes the way tau [protein] looks and behaves. It goes awry, it starts destroying the integrity of the brain cells.” Doctor Omalu’s discovery was the first hard evidence which proved playing football could cause permanent damage. This finding was not well received by the NFL and Omalu was met with attacks by the MTBI committee and the NFL as a whole.
What does Jovan Belcher, Ray Esterling and O.J. Murdock Have in common? They all were famous football players who commented suicide. Each player had something called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE. This is a condition where sufferers have had repeated hits to the head that leads to concussions and ultimately head trauma. In this research paper, we will go over the data about the NFL to see could they have prevented CTE in these players if they had placed the player’s safety first.
The case studies post-mortem examinations that Dr. Omalu and his colleagues conducted exhibited chronic trauma to the brain, causing encephalopathy or brain damage (Omalu, Hamilton et al 42). Appropriately, Dr. Omalu decided that the research encompassed the pathology of Neuro-degenerative disease. Accordingly, he decided to name the research based on the findings of these case studies, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).
“Football’s Endgame: What would happen if America’s Pastime just...died” is the title that had heads turning when it made its way onto Sports Illustrated. Football is the United State’s favorite sport so an article like this one was sure to shock fans. The article was written to be set ten years from now when the game of football met its death. Giving the ongoing issues surrounding the game in 2016, the author Austin Murphy dated the article September 7,2036. In this article Murphy talks about the factors that led to the end of one of the U.S’s beloved sports. Factors like the AIG not protecting athletes against head injuries in the NFL, Pop Warner settling a death with the family of a former football player who committed suicide at the age of 25 from CTE caused by hits to the head, and the 10% rise in football concussions. A woman whose son had passed away from a motorcycle accident noticed changes in her boy. Playing football for almost a decade he was bound to get hurt, but it was after his death that doctors found he had CTE. CTE is a topic of discussion in this article. Sports Illustrated works to inform everyone about CTE and its effects on the mind. This disease targets the way a person thinks and changes their moods, “He had all these [football-related] problems with his knees and back, but his brain was
According to World Health Organization, the statics show that: - The world needs 17 million more health workers, especially in Africa and South East Asia. - African Region bore the highest burden with almost two thirds of the global maternal deaths in 2015 - In Sub-Saharn Africa, 1 child in 12 dies before his or her 5th birthday - Teenage girls, sex workers and intravenous drug users are mong those left behind by the global HIV response - TB occurs with 9.6 million new cases in 2014 - In 2014, at least 1.7 billion people needed interventions against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) (“Global Health Observatory data”, n.d.) B. A quote of Miss Emmeline Stuart, published in the article in
Which impair brain function when grouped together. Omalu spoke about his findings with top faculty members at the University of Pittsburgh, and went on to name the condition Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE for short. Shortly after, omalu submitted a paper titled "Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a National Football League Player" to the medical journal Neurosurgery. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive degenerative disease that afflicts the brain of people who have suffered repeated concussions and traumatic brain injuries (TBI). Though Bennet Omalu first discovered CTE in the brain of NFL Hall of Famer Mike Webster in 2002, it was previously
That being said this is the most prominent disorder within athletes, the disease has no symptoms which is why is becoming such a prominent disease among athletes such as NFL players. Recent research has suggested several mechanisms for brain injury in the setting of repeated trauma. Neurofibrillary tangles in CTE have a characteristic perivascular distribution, grouped around small intracortical vessels (Mckee 1999). This finding suggests that trauma may damage the blood-brain barrier, releasing neurotoxins that promote the formation of neurofibrillary tangles around blood vessels. In a
Football is a dangerous sport, in fact, retired NFL players are 19 time more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease of any other similar memory loss diseases, found by a recent study by the university of Michigan. CTE a disease that Acura as a result of constant head injuries and contact, and has been growing rapidly in the NFL. The NFL has been denied giving the many claims that CTE has a direct connection with professional football, until recently. The NFL has been taken to court multiple times over the topic of CTE. Although the National Football League is preparing to settle a class-action lawsuit with players with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the League should do more for players because not only has it profited from
Bennet Omalu as he goes by, was the first to discover the tragic disease of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, CTE. When growing up Dr. Bennet Omalu, when he was 6 he wanted to be an airline pilot in Nigeria, born on September, 1968 in Idemili South, Nigeria. But instead he attended medical school in Nigeria and studies so many degrees such as, a physician, forensic, pathologist, and neuropathologist. He attended the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, University of Pittsburgh Graduate school of public health. Dr. Omalu was the first to degenerative disease in the brain of former pro football player, Mike Webster.
Access to health care in Ethiopia has left many people without proper health care and eventual death. Millions of people living in Ethiopia die because of the lack of access to the health care system; improving the access to the healthcare system in Ethiopia can prevent many of the deaths that occur, but doing so will pose a grueling and challenging task. According to Chaya (2012), poor health coverage is of particular concern in rural Ethiopia, where access to any type of modern health institution is limited at best (p. 1). If citizen of Ethiopia had more accessibility of the healthcare system more individuals could be taught how to practice safe health practices. In Ethiopia where HIV, and maternal and infant mortality rates are sky high, more education on the importance of using the healthcare system and makin...
I first considered a public health career when I interned at the Ghana Health Service Family Health Department as an undergraduate student. Participating in national meetings focused on strategies to reduce maternal mortality in Ghana, I recognized that, in order to create sustainable advances, it is crucial to address the underlying social inequalities that exacerbate adverse health outcomes. To advance this goal, I am seeking admission into the Global Health and Population Doctoral Program at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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