Victor Coronado, M.D., medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will discuss traumatic brain injury at noon on March 9 in the Maurer Center for Public Health, Room 3013.
In his speech, “Sports and Recreation-Related Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Treated in Emergency Departments, 2001-2012,” Dr. Coronado will provide an in-depth look at trends and the estimated severity of TBI in sports and recreational activities.
Dr. Coronado, who began his career at the CDC in 1991, has held positions in HIV surveillance, vaccine preventable diseases, traumatic brain injury and quarantine services. Educated as a physician in his native country of Peru, Dr. Coronado practiced internal medicine and nephrology in his hometown of Cusco, offering the first dialysis services available in that region of his country.
He completed his M.P.H. degree at Tulane University in New Orleans. Dr. Coronado is an avid mentor for students, almost continuously sponsoring medical students and physicians from around the world for mentoring/fellowship opportunities at the CDC.
He is now medical officer for the Quarantine Epidemiology and Surveillance Team, Quarantine and Border Health Services Branch, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, and the National Center for Emerging & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases.
The presentation can be viewed through a live videostream link. Call 9-8090 if you have trouble viewing the presentation.