Week 3, Day 2

Welcome back to Week 3 of your externship! Last week, best week! Today we only have one synchronous activity, our guest speaker Monique Pappadis!

Monique R. Pappadis is an Assistant Professor of the Division of Rehabilitation Sciences, School of Health Professions at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and an Investigator at the Brain Injury Research Center of TIRR Memorial Hermann. She is also a Research Career and Development Core Scholar of UTMB's Claude D. Pepper Center and a Scholar of the Translational Research Scholars Program through the Institute for Translational Sciences.

There is one Task for today:

Guest speaker: Monique Pappadis

Before the talk:

• Be sure to have read-

  • Ethical Considerations in Chronic Brain Injury: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6986275/

  • Soy diferente: a qualitative study on the perceptions of recovery following traumatic brain injury among Spanish-speaking U.S. immigrants: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/106201/cdc_106201_DS1.pdf

  • Race/ethnicity and retention in traumatic brain injury outcomes research: a traumatic brain injury model systems national database study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6611457/

  • Traumatic brain injury education for adult patients and families: a scoping review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc6321983/

  • https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kUlHYkVuZ4KwMg0erBsrpPwH-DtA8thF?usp=sharing – 4 docs in here

Zoom link:

• Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8428523914?pwd=dXA0TkRocTE2RjJHUzJGNGx6UEJzdz09

• Meeting ID: 842 852 3914

• Passcode: 094687

Work through this curriculum for today:

This curriculum will prepare us for Kam Gardner’s guest talk and our discussion on “Concussion”.

1. For Kam Gardner guest talk

   • https://www.jneurology.com/articles/montreal-cognitive-assessment-score-a-screening-tool-for-cognitive-function-in-traumatic-brain-injury-tbi-population.html

   • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9701095/

2. Listen to this BBC radio program: How will the concussion issue affect the future of sport? 

3. Read https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/09/sports/football/what-happened-within-this-players-skull-football-concussions.html?smid=tw-share&mtrref=undefined&gwh=7852A4311B4EFF7975D9FBC73965DCDC&gwt=pay&assetType=PAYWALL 

4. Listen to The Ethics of Football and the Concussion Industrial Complex, from the podcast “The End of Sport” featuring Kathleen Bachynski, Assistant Professor of Public Health, Muhlenberg College, about the ethics of US Football and No Game for Boys to Play: The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis.

5. Read Youth Football Is a Moral Abdication, letter to The Atlantic, Kathleen Bachynski.

Tutorials and Skill Building:

1. None, focus on 1- the readings and 2- your projects! :)

Reminders/things to note:

1. Keep up the fantastic work on your projects!