Dr. Bennet Omalu: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

Dr. Bennet Omalu founder of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a highly respected and renowned physician in medical communities around the world with high-level credentials to support his many accolades. Accordingly, Dr. Omalu’s achievements resulted in him becoming a Board Certified Physician Executive, which means that he has attained prominence in the medical community by surpassing the level of expertise in his field (UCDH 2-4). In 2005, Dr. Omalu caused disruption in the National Football League (NFL) with his research linking repetitive head trauma to Neuro-degenerative disease (Omalu, Hamilton et al 40). The medical term Neuro-degenerative covers a wide-range of medical conditions that affects the nerve cells in the brain,

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).

Over the years, he has collaborated and written academic papers on CTE with other colleagues in the medical community. The goal of the collaborations was to determine and confirm the commonality and epidemiology of the disease, initially the

Omalu’s et al CTE research revealed that the repetitiveness of brain trauma can result in concussions, meaning that the athlete is in a temporary state of unconsciousness or a subconcussion, meaning the athlete remains conscious after the injury (Omalu et al 40-42). As an expert gamer, I wanted to include Madden NFL Video Game screenshots in this essay to describe what happens to a football player during a concussion. Figures 1 thru 3, illustrate the step-by-step process of a full speed collision between two football players (Player #25 & Player #55) resulted in a