2004 Sports Concussion and Spine Injury Conference

Playing host to Boston’s 2004 Sports Concussion and Spine Injury Conference, BWH neurosurgeons hit a home run. The Player’s Club at Fenway Park was packed to capacity on Friday, May 14 with hundreds of coaches, athletic trainers, physicians, school nurses and other community leaders eager to learn how to best prevent and manage sports-related head and spine injuries, one of the leading causes of death and disability among children. BWH speakers included Drs. Arthur Day, Robert Cantu and Mark Proctor, all members of the hospital’s newly formed Neurological Sports Injury Center, which will celebrate its one-year anniversary this September. The full-day conference included presentations by the nation’s leading sports medicine experts, the Boston Celtics, Bruins and New England Revolution head trainers and a first-hand account of concussion by professional wrestler and former Harvard All-Ivy football player, Chris Nowinski.

Fox 25 News, the Boston Herald and WBZ Radio covered the event. The conference was organized in partnership with the May Institute and the Massachusetts Brain Injury Association.