[ARiEAL Speaker Series] Background and findings of the CARE Consortium

**Registration is required for this event. Please RSVP at the ARiEAL Eventbrite Page (http://bit.ly/ARiEAL19_Broglio) by Monday, November 11, 2019. **

Dr. Steven Broglio is a Professor of Kinesiology, Neurology, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He completed his training at the University of Georgia, followed by his first faculty position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been at the University of Michigan since 2011.

At Michigan, Dr. Broglio is the Director of the Michigan Concussion Center and the NeuroTrauma Research Laboratory where he oversees clinical care, educational outreach, and multi-disciplinary research aimed at fundamental questions on concussion prevention, identification, diagnosis, management, and outcomes. His research has been supported by the National Athletic Trainers’ Research and Education Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and the Department of Defense. Dr. Broglio was awarded the Early Career Investigator Award by the International Brain Injury Association, the Early Career award by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, and Fellowship in the American College of Sports Medicine and National Athletic Trainers’ Association.

In this talk, Dr. Broglio will present the background and findings of the CARE (Concussion Assessment, Research and Education) Consortium.

In 2014, the NCAA and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) signed a cooperative agreement, forming the Grand Alliance, to investigate the acute effects of concussion among collegiate athletes and military service academy members. The two arms of the Grand Alliance centered on concussion education (Mind Matters) and research (Concussion Assessment, Research and Education [CARE] Consortium). The CARE Consortium was designed to address gaps in the medical literature with a focus on understanding the natural history of concussion; elucidating the neurobiology of concussion; and evaluating the role of neuroimaging biomarkers, fluid biomarkers, and genotype in injury risk and outcomes. This presentation will discuss the overall structure and early findings from the largest prospective study on sport concussion ever conducted.