My personal interest in health services for America’s veterans comes by way of my father, Vic Phillips, who experienced first hand the consequences of delayed medical treatment.
I had never heard of telemental health until I read an article about Dr. Linda Godleski in Medicine@Yale, a Yale School of Medicine publication that spotlights innovation in biomedical science, education and health care. Dr. Godleski, an associate professor of psychiatry at the Medical School, was featured for having won the David M. Worthen Award for her outstanding work with the VA. The article said: “Telemental health medicine has proved to be an efficient and economic method of providing behavioral [...]
Published on April 1, 2012 in Psychiatric Services (American Psychiatric Association), this report is the largest study ever conducted on hospitalization rates for patients receiving telemental health care. The impressive findings could lead to…
The First Study of Head Impacts in Youth Football In a groundbreaking study, researchers at Virginia Tech placed instrumented helmets on 7 and 8-year-old football players and collected data on more than 750 hits to the head over the course of a season. The findings provide the first quantitative assessment of the acceleration and risk that young brains are exposed to in youth football. Lead researcher, Stefan Duma, a professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been gathering data on head impacts among college players [...]
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Even after I left network news, I remained interested in telling stories. And I kept coming back around to one story in particular– football concussions. I’d had a couple myself (see my concussions) and had talked about that with some former pro players who were about my age. I was doing ok but they told me about health problems they had that they believed stemmed from all the hard hits to the head they’d taken during their playing days. [...]
I started playing organized football at age twelve and continued through high school and college. I love the game. But lately, I am also concerned about the safety of those who play it. In ten seasons, I suffered two concussions, one during my senior year of high school and one during the final game of my college career– the last time I put on a helmet. In neither case was I knocked out. Most players with concussions aren’t. After the [...]
As told to me –Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson –Dr. James P. Kelly, Director of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence for treating veterans with TBI and former neurologist for the Chicago Bears –Hall of Fame linebacker, Harry Carson –Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz, research director of the University of North Carolina’s Center for the Study of Retired Athletes –Dr. Robert Cantu, Professor of Neurosurgery at Boston University Medical School and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopothy (CTE) which has [...]
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