Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu // ⓘ (born September 30, 1968 [1]) is a Nigerian-American physician, forensic pathologist, and neuropathologist who was the first to discover and publish findings on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players while working at the Allegheny County coroner's office in Pittsburgh. [2]

Dec 23, 2015 · Bennet Omalu discovered Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in former football players, sparking years of denial from the NFL and the creation of a movie about his life's work.

Oct 6, 2013 · Growing up in Nigeria, Dr. Bennet Omalu knew next to nothing about American football. He didn’t watch the games, he didn’t know the teams, and he certainly didn’t know the name Mike Webster....

Nov 12, 2016 · Dr. Omalu was working as a forensic neuropathologist in Pittsburgh when he conducted postmortem examinations of former NFL offensive lineman Mike Webster’s brain and spotted what would become the hallmarks of CTE.

Dr. Omalu's finding of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in Webster's brain and his subsequent battles with forces aligned with the NFL over the condition's nature and magnitude are portrayed partly as a loss of innocence.

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Sep 10, 2023 · Dr. Bennet Omalu, whose groundbreaking CTE research was immortalized on screen by Will Smith in the 2015 film Concussion, provided expert testimony on head trauma, while leaning on his extensive history of performing autopsies, during the murder trial of …

That conversation continues this month with the upcoming release of Concussion — starring Will Smith as Dr. Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist who first found the disease at the center of...

Dec 27, 2015 · Smith portrays Dr. Bennet Omalu, the Nigerian immigrant who was the first to publish research on the degenerative brain disease he called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

Dr. Omalu is a fellow of the American Association of Physician Leadership, is board-certified in Medical Management and is a Certified Physician Executive. He has received three honorary doctorate degrees in addition to numerous other awards across the world.