Week 9, Day 3

This week you’ll be hearing from Expert Guest Speaker Dr. Kelli Gary on Tuesday.

There are 3 tasks to do today:

  • If you have not yet, please write a thank you message to Dr. Fisher on this document. We’d like to send it out by or before this Thursday.

  • Please write a thank you message to Dr. Gary on this document.

  • If you have not yet, take this poll about your preference in terms of using a photo (with you on it) for general press release.

  • Skim through the Concussion Legacy Foundation (CLF) website; CLF is hosting the webinar tomorrow. CLF is the one of the oldest, and is the largest concussion nonprofit in the U.S., so it’s worth seeing what they are doing. In part their work is has been focused on supporting CTE research and they are closely connected with sports leagues, and they are well-funded. (We’ve regularly advertised their webinars in their newsletter. They would never deign to do the same for us, or any other smaller concussion nonprofit.) Their Help Line is a new program for them — they started it about six months ago. Their treatment resources has improved since I last looked at it; they have short sections on PT, Vestibular Therapy, Exertional Therapy, CBT, etc.

This week:

  • OPTIONAL: Join us this Thursday at 4 p.m. ET for a webinar featuring Dr. Ann McKee, who is the corresponding author of the largest CTE study ever, just published this week in the journal Acta Neuropathologica! Dr. McKee will present the study's key findings before taking questions from the audience.CLF co-founder and CEO Chris Nowinski, Ph.D. will host the webinar and discuss with Dr. McKee how the study provides insights into where CTE begins and how it progresses, as well as how it confirms the McKee staging criteria for CTE.Join us to learn why Dr. McKee says these findings will "lay the groundwork for diagnosis during life."Register now to secure your spot and tune in Thursday at 4 p.m. ET. 

  • Watch this film Bell Ringer, from 2016. It is 55 minutes. We will have a discussion on Friday August 14 from 11-11:40 am

    • “In 2017, Bell Ringer: The Invisible Brain Injury received an Emmy for Best Director and Post Production from the National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences, a Silver Telly Award for Best General Documentary, and a Bronze Telly Award for General Education.For further information, please visit AETN's Bell Ringer: The Invisible Brain Injury. Quote from PBS Learning Media.

  • Continue working on your projects.

  • Reminders for those working in Squarespace:

    • Always make sure that you are not making changes to a live page.

    • Squarespace has no version control. If you make changes to a page and then save that change, you cannot get the original version back. This applies to editing from two computers as well; Squarespace also does not support two active editors, so make sure that only one person is editing a page at a time. Squarespace has even had trouble when someone else has the page selected but is not editing, it can be really finicky.