Bennet Omalu: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

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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. Which then named it the CTE, he tried to raise awareness for CTE then were rebuffed by the NFL, National Football League. Bennet Omalu was born around during the Nigerian civil war, at this time point in bennet’s family had to vacate the premises in their village, but then later were able to return to their village at a normal lifestyle this affected Omalu in some case. …show more content…

Later in his young age Bennet was admitted to the Federal Government College in Enugu at the age of 12, fascinating, at the age of 16 he began medical school at the University of Nigeria. Bennet Omalu earned his first degree in 1990, Bennet then interned at Jos University hospital. Later on Bennet Omalu served his residency at Harlem Hospital Center, where there he gained interest in Pathology, in 1999, Bennet Omalu then moved to Pittsburgh to go and train under Pathologist Cyril Wecht a the Allegheny County Coroner’s office. Omalu then kept on going for his education a the University of Pittsburgh, then completing his neuropathology in 2002 and his master’s in public health and epidemiology in

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