{"id":70578,"date":"2019-04-29T10:39:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T14:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=70578"},"modified":"2019-05-03T11:13:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T15:13:41","slug":"ann-mckee-named-warren-distinguished-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2019\/04\/29\/ann-mckee-named-warren-distinguished-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann McKee Named Warren Distinguished Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It\u2019s been a year of professional triumphs for\u00a0<\/span>Ann McKee<\/a>, who does groundbreaking research into chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and repeated head trauma in soldiers and athletes. In addition to being\u00a0<\/span>elected to the National Academy of Medicine<\/a>, the School of Medicine professor of neurology and pathology also received a lifetime achievement award from the\u00a0<\/span>Alzheimer\u2019s Association International Conference<\/a>\u00a0and was named\u00a0<\/span>one of\u00a0<\/span>Time<\/em>\u2019s 2018 100 most influential people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She has now received another distinction: she is one of four BU faculty named a\u00a0<\/span>William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor<\/a>, the University\u2019s highest faculty honor. The appointments were announced Monday by President Robert A. Brown, who along with Jean Morrison, provost and chief academic officer, notified each recipient personally.<\/p>\n

The William Fairfield Warren Professorships, named in honor of BU\u2019s first president, were established in 2008 to recognize BU\u2019s most distinguished faculty. The award is the highest distinction bestowed upon senior faculty members who remain actively involved in research, scholarship, teaching, and the University\u2019s civic life. It comes with an annual scholarly allowance of $20,000 and funding for a month of summer salary. Each recipient is bestowed an emeritus title upon retirement.<\/p>\n

Dr. McKee says that she is deeply honored, noting that because this is an internal distinction, \u201cthe award feels personal and special. I am energized by the validation of my work by my own institution, just as I am very proud to represent BU in all my interactions with other scientists, other academic institutions, and the media.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough her research and public spokesmanship Dr. McKee has transformed the national\u2014and international\u2013conversation about sport safety,\u201d Brown says. \u201cLike her fellow Warren Professors she reflects the best of Boston University and what we seek to achieve in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. McKee is the director of BU\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>CTE Center<\/a>, whose\u00a0<\/span>brain bank<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>has more than 600 brains donated by professional athletes and their families and by many others. CTE is associated with dementia, mood changes, and aggression. In November 2017, McKee announced that her team had determined that\u00a0<\/span>Aaron Hernandez\u00a0had the worst case of CTE ever found in a young person<\/a>. Convicted murderer Hernandez,\u00a0a former New England Patriots football player, was 27 when he died from suicide in jail in April 2017.<\/p>\n

Dr. McKee has published more than 70 percent of the world\u2019s CTE case studies and has testified before Congress. She is the associate director of BU\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0<\/span>Boston Globe<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>profile<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>naming her the 2017 Bostonian of the Year, she said that her nieces call her \u201cAuntie Badass.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBU students are innately curious and ask a lot of questions. I am too,\u201d says Dr. McKee, who was a Green Bay Packers fan growing up. \u201cI enjoy sharing my journey as a physician-scientist to try to figure out what makes human beings think, behave, and act by looking deeply into their brain. There is so much we do not know.\u201d<\/p>\n

This <\/em>BU Today<\/a> article was written by\u00a0Amy Laskowski.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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