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Bennett Omalu Research Paper

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It is estimated that over 90% of today's NFL players have a brain issue even if they do not know about it. On average, each football player gets hit 2,500 times to the head in a career. The centers take about 25,000 tackles to the head in an average career if they go to the NFL. After 9 or 10 concussions, you probably have a disease in you. In the year 2015, there were 271 concussions, in 2014, there were 206, in 2013, there was 229, and in 2012, there was 261 concussions. That adds up to 967 in 4 years. Dr Bennett Omalu was the first doctor to find this brain issue, and he has a foundation to help the players and families that have suffered with this issue. He named it Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE. CTE is a brain disease that …show more content…

LIttle did he know he was going to be famous one day. He was born during the Nigerian Civil War, and had seven siblings he was the sixth oldest child. His mom was a seamstress and his dad was a civil mining engineer. They designed mines and open underground things. He lived in a dangerous little village and was not outside a lot because of gangs. His lifelong dream as a kid was to be an airline pilot. He didn’t even think of neuropathology. That is the study of diseases in the brain. His first year of schooling was the fall of 1971 which means Omalu was 3. He would then go on to many more …show more content…

Omalu attended many schools to get where he is today. Bennett attended University of Nigeria when he was sixteen and then got into federal government school in the same year as a secondary school. A secondary school is like another education along with the one school you are in. He then graduated later with a Bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery. In 1994, he came to Washington to get a fellowship in epidemiology at The University of Washington. He then went to a hospital to get training in pathology. In 1999, he moved to Pittsburg to get more schooling. In 2002, he got a pathology fellowship and got a master's degree from Pittsburgh. He now has eight advanced degrees, and he was off to his job in

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