{"id":6460,"date":"2010-07-21T14:07:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T18:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-news\/?p=860"},"modified":"2010-07-21T14:07:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T18:07:18","slug":"cantu-named-senior-advisor-nfl-head-neck-and-spine-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2010\/07\/21\/cantu-named-senior-advisor-nfl-head-neck-and-spine-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Cantu Named Senior Advisor NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert C. Cantu, MD, clinical professor of neurosurgery at Boston University School of Medicine and co-director of BU\u2019s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE), has been appointed senior advisor to the NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee.  In this position Dr. Cantu will  provide advice and perspective to Committee  co-chair H. Hunt Batier, MD,  Michael J. Marchese Professor of Neurological Surgery and chair Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Department of Neurological Surgery, and co-chair Richard G. Ellenbogen, MD, chair, department of  Neurological Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-468\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-468\" title=\"Dr  Robert Cantu\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2009\/12\/Dr-Robert-Cantu-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr.  Robert Cantu\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr.  Robert Cantu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Cantu is a pioneer in the diagnosis and treatment of concussions. He serves as a founding member and Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board, Sports Legacy Institute and co-director of the Neurologic Sports Injury Center at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital. He is known worldwide for his work on catastrophic head and neck injuries and post-concussive syndrome. He was the first doctor to establish a grading scale (Grades 1-3) for concussions, based on symptoms at the time of injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Head, Neck and Spine Committee will assist in strengthening the NFL\u2019s leadership role in research, education, prevention, and treatment of head and spine injuries in sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert C. Cantu, MD, clinical professor of neurosurgery at Boston University School of Medicine and co-director of BU\u2019s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE), has been appointed senior advisor to the NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee. In this position Dr. Cantu will provide advice and perspective to Committee co-chair H. Hunt Batier, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}