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Dr James Kelly, appointed director of the new National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE)
Colleagues,
As reported in the Federal Health Update...Dr. James P. Kelly, a neurologist and one of America’s top experts on treating concussions, has been appointed director of the new National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE). The center, scheduled to open in spring 2010, will conduct research, diagnosis and treatment planning to help members of the military with psychological health problems and traumatic brain injury.
A component center of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE), the NICoE will be a 72,000-square-foot, two-story facility located on the Navy campus in Bethesda, Md
Kelly is on a leave of absence from his position as professor of neurosurgery and physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. His past positions include assistant dean for graduate medical education at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the neurology residency program director at Northwestern University medical school. The new NICoE director has also served as director of the Brain Injury Program at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. He was the neurologist for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League and is consulted frequently by professional, elite amateur and youth athletes who have sustained concussions.
Read on at: http://www.health.mil/Press/Release.aspx?ID=568
As reported in the Federal Health Update...Dr. James P. Kelly, a neurologist and one of America’s top experts on treating concussions, has been appointed director of the new National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE). The center, scheduled to open in spring 2010, will conduct research, diagnosis and treatment planning to help members of the military with psychological health problems and traumatic brain injury.
A component center of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE), the NICoE will be a 72,000-square-foot, two-story facility located on the Navy campus in Bethesda, Md
Kelly is on a leave of absence from his position as professor of neurosurgery and physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. His past positions include assistant dean for graduate medical education at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the neurology residency program director at Northwestern University medical school. The new NICoE director has also served as director of the Brain Injury Program at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. He was the neurologist for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League and is consulted frequently by professional, elite amateur and youth athletes who have sustained concussions.
Read on at: http://www.health.mil/Press/Release.aspx?ID=568
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