Bennet Omalu
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Bennet Omalu's Degrees
- Bachelors Medicine University of Nigeria
- Masters Business Administration Carnegie Mellon University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dr. Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu is a Nigerian and American physician, forensic pathologist and neuropathologist who was the first to discover and publish findings on chronic traumatic encephalopathy in American football players while working at the Allegheny County coroner's office in Pittsburgh. He later became the chief medical examiner for San Joaquin County, California, and is a professor at the University of California, Davis, department of medical pathology and laboratory medicine. He is currently the President and Medical Director of Bennet Omalu Pathology.
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- CHRONIC TRAUMATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY IN A NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYER: PART II (2005) (573)
- Role of subconcussion in repetitive mild traumatic brain injury. (2013) (413)
- Emerging Histomorphologic Phenotypes of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in American Athletes (2011) (337)
- Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in a National Football League Player: Case report and emerging medicolegal practice questions (2010) (250)
- Chronic traumatic encephalopathy. (2014) (234)
- Risk of suicide after long-term follow-up from bariatric surgery. (2010) (227)
- PET scanning of brain tau in retired national football league players: preliminary findings. (2013) (220)
- Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in an Iraqi war veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder who committed suicide. (2011) (209)
- Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Suicides and Parasuicides in Professional American Athletes: The Role of the Forensic Pathologist (2010) (206)
- Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a National Football League Player. (2006) (181)
- In vivo characterization of chronic traumatic encephalopathy using [F-18]FDDNP PET brain imaging (2015) (181)
- Death rates and causes of death after bariatric surgery for Pennsylvania residents, 1995 to 2004. (2007) (161)
- Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a professional American wrestler (2010) (145)
- The effect of radiosurgery during management of aggressive meningiomas. (2003) (123)
- Deaths Resulting From Hypocalcemia After Administration of Edetate Disodium: 2003-2005 (2006) (105)
- Systemic Distribution of West Nile Virus Infection: Postmortem Immunohistochemical Study of Six Cases (2007) (83)
- Fatal Fulminant Pan‐Meningo‐Polioencephalitis Due to West Nile Virus (2003) (82)
- Pulmonary Meningothelial-like Nodules: A Genotypic Comparison With Meningiomas (2004) (78)
- Sudden Death from Fulminant Acute Cerebellitis (2001) (63)
- Repetitive Traumatic Brain Injury and Development of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: A Potential Role for Biomarkers in Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment? (2013) (59)
- The risk of body packing: a case of a fatal cocaine overdose. (2005) (56)
- Postmortem Autopsy‐Confirmation of Antemortem [F‐18]FDDNP‐PET Scans in a Football Player With Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (2018) (49)
- Loss of Heterozygosity Analysis of Benign, Atypical, and Anaplastic Meningiomas (2004) (43)
- Suicides following bariatric surgery for the treatment of obesity. (2005) (43)
- Perfusion Neuroimaging Abnormalities Alone Distinguish National Football League Players from a Healthy Population (2016) (41)
- Endoplasmic reticulum stress implicated in chronic traumatic encephalopathy. (2016) (39)
- Death by chainsaw: fatal kickback injuries to the neck. (2004) (37)
- Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a National Football League player. (2005) (35)
- Role of Tau Acetylation in Alzheimer’s Disease and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: The Way Forward for Successful Treatment (2017) (31)
- Amiodarone-Induced Neuromyopathy: Three Cases and a Review of the Literature (2002) (30)
- Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a national football league player. Part II. Commentary (2005) (27)
- Nursing Home Deaths Which Fall Under the Jurisdiction of the Coroner: An 11-Year Retrospective Study (2007) (25)
- Postbariatric Surgery Deaths, Which Fall Under the Jurisdiction of the Coroner (2004) (25)
- FDDNP-PET Tau Brain Protein Binding Patterns in Military Personnel with Suspected Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy1. (2018) (16)
- Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in an exhumed decomposed brain after twenty months of burial in a deep grave. (2005) (15)
- Blood and tissue concentration of cesium after exposure to cesium chloride (2003) (14)
- Progressive Focal Gray Matter Volume Loss in a Former High School Football Player: A Possible Magnetic Resonance Imaging Volumetric Signature for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. (2016) (14)
- Cause of Death Among Elder Homicide Victims: A 10‐Year Medical Examiner Review (2006) (13)
- Autopsy features of sudden death due to isolated eosinophilic coronary arteritis: report of two cases. (2011) (12)
- Cardiac Concussion: Definition, Differential Diagnosis, and Cases Presentation and the Legal Ramification of a Misdiagnosis (2004) (12)
- Play Hard, Die Young: Football Dementia, Depression, and Death (2008) (10)
- Fallopian tube and pulmonary sarcoidosis. A case report. (1997) (10)
- Infectious Aneurysm Clipping by an MRI/MRA Wand-Guided Protocol (2001) (10)
- Deaths Among Criminal Suspects, Law Enforcement Officers, Civilians, and Prison Inmates: A Coroner-Based Study (2003) (10)
- February 2003: a 53-year-old male with new onset seizures. (2003) (9)
- Is there an association between coronary atherosclerosis and carcinoma of the prostate in men aged 50 years and older? An autopsy and coroner based post-mortem study. (2013) (9)
- Diagnosis of traumatic diffuse axonal injury. (2004) (8)
- Forensic pathology and forensic epidemiology of suicides in allegheny county, pennsylvania (2005) (7)
- Letter: Recommendation to Create New Neuropathologic Guidelines for the Post-Mortem Diagnosis of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. (2021) (6)
- Occurrence of anaplastic oligodendroglioma in a patient with Williams syndrome: a case report with analysis of mutational profile of tumor. (2009) (5)
- Lithium treatment for chronic traumatic encephalopathy: A proposal (2019) (3)
- Forecasting as an Operations Management Tool in a Medical Examiner's Office (2007) (3)
- In Reply: Recommendation to Create New Neuropathologic Guidelines for the Postmortem Diagnosis of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. (2022) (2)
- Pathophysiological nervous system consequences of conducted electrical devices and sudden, unexpected death. (2011) (2)
- Postmortem grading of cerebral contusions (2005) (2)
- Autopsy-proven Mirtazapine Withdrawal-induced Mania/Hypomania Associated with Sudden Death (2017) (2)
- Repeated Concussions: Time to Spur Action Among Vulnerable Veterans. (2016) (2)
- Fatal constriction of an 8-year-old child by her parents' pet python: a call for amendment to existing laws on the ownership of exotic wildlife to protect children from avoidable injury and death. (2003) (1)
- Diagnosis of Hemorrhagic Stroke in an Exhumed Brain After Three Years of Burial in a Deep Grave (2012) (1)
- Forensic Neuropathologic Phenotypes of Fungal Central Nervous System Infections: A Case Series. (2021) (1)
- Letter: Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome [TES] Is Not Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy [CTE]: CTE Is Only a Subtype of TES. (2021) (0)
- SYSTEMIC DISTRIBUTION OF WEST NILE VIRUS DURING ENCEPHALITIS WITH A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE (2007) (0)
- Autopsy Cardiac Troponin I Plasma Levels Can Be Elevated in Myocardial Infarction Type 3 (2021) (0)
- Systemic distribution of west nile virus during encephalitis with a review of the literature: 560.6 (2007) (0)
- In Reply. (2012) (0)
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