Concussion Confusion: A Case for Personalized Medicine | Michelle LaPlaca | TEDxEmory

Dr. LaPlaca talks about how to transform the way we treat concussions. Instead of the determinations we use today, she envisions a system where we have personalized concussion scores to better treat patients.

Michelle C. LaPlaca, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. She earned a Ph.D. in Bioengineering (Ph.D., 1996) and completed postdoctoral training in Neurosurgery, both at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. LaPlaca’s research interests surround translational research in traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. The goals are to better understand acute injury mechanisms and mechanotransduction, identify novel TBI biomarkers, and develop multimodal concussion assessment tools. She has won numerous awards for her research and currently serves as Vice Chair of the Brain Injury Association of Georgia.

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