Week 6, Day 2

Happy Tuesday of the sixth week!!

We have 2 Guest speakers today!

Dr. Eve Valera will be speaking at 10 am PT | 12 pm CT | 1 pm ET on the topic of IPV. You can see Dr. Valera’s bio on our website here.

Dr. Daniel Corwin will be speaking to us about Pediatrics, ED department, and Rehab at 1 pm PT | 3 pm CT | 4 pm ET.

For those of you that scheduled project meetings, we will continue to meet with you to discuss your first drafts today.

Start-of-day Procedure

1. Check Slack for new messages

2. Check the schedule in #weekly-schedules on Slack, on the week page in this portal

3. Check the ‘day page’ (like this one) for tasks & content

4. Check your project resource Google doc in your project folder for new resources

5. Check in with your PM on Slack

6. Check in with your project partner(s) on Slack

There are 3 (new) tasks to do today:

• Prepare questions for Guest speaker Dr. Nick Reed tomorrow (Wedensday 10 am PT | 12 pm CT | 1 pm ET.)

• Check on Newsletter Synopsis revisions

• Please write a thank you note for Dr. Valera and Dr. Corwin. You can find the thank you note by clicking on their names.

Curriculum for Today

We’ve provided a group of educational resources below. We’ve listed them in an order that we hope will build on your understanding of concussions as you go.

Unit 1: Football and Sports Industrial Complex (~40 min)

• Read Youth Football Is a Moral Abdication, letter to The Atlantic, Kathleen Bachynski (~15 minutes)

• The NFL’s Racist ‘Race Norming’ Is an Afterlife of Slavery

• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-nfls-racist-race-norming-is-an-afterlife-of-slavery/ (~15 minutes)

​​Former NFL players report Mild Cognitive Impairment, dementia at higher rates than national average for their age(~10 min)

Stanford Writing Course

• Stanford Writing Course (~2 hrs)

We will no longer be assigning modules from this course. However, feel free to keep continuing if you would like!