Solving the Concussion Crisis at the Konkussion Retreat: Consensus 2015 White Paper

This past week, our director, Gillian A. Hotz, Ph.D, traveled to Kleinburg, Ontario as a participant of the 2015 Konkussion Retreat – a summit organized by Dr. Neilank K. Jha, a neurosurgeon from Toronto Western Hospital – to bring the world’s leading concussion experts together to finalize an international consensus by which concussive traumatic brain injuries are understood. “It […]

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UHealth Sports Medicine Concussion Update

Last Thursday evening, UHealth Sports Medicine and our UConcussion team held a pre-game concussion update seminar for local physicians, with presentations by Dr. Lee Kaplan, Chief of UHealth Sports Medicine; Dr. Gillian Hotz, Director of KiDZ Neuroscience Center and UConcussion Program, Dr. Kester Nedd, Medical Director of UConcussion Program, Dr. Michael Hoffer, Director of the […]

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VIDEO: UConcussion at Running Refs 5K

This weekend, the Runnin’ Refs team of the GMACFOA (Greater Miami Athletic Conference Football Officials Association) ran the Lifetime Miami Marathon Kick-Off 5K to support the KiDZ Neuroscience Center and UConcussion Program’s traumatic brain injury research. “It’s a great marriage between our association officiating football, and the program that helps treat our student athletes when they are injured,” […]

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Heads Up Football Training for Moms at Sports Authority Dadeland

The KiDZ Neuroscience Center’s UConcussion program teamed up with Sports Authority last weekend to bring USA Football’s Heads Up training and certification to the Pop Warner Palmetto Bay Broncos team. We’d like to thank Sports Authority’s Emily Perez for helping us coordinate this event, and Coach Alfred Farrington of the Palmetto Bay Broncos for coming to the event […]

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