BUFFALO - The Western New York Head Injury Seminar is set for the Niagara Convention Center on Jan. 4 from 1-5 p.m.
The event is presented by the Eastern Athletic Trainers Association and the New York State Athletic Trainers Association and is sponsored by Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Western New York.
This afternoon of presentations on sport-related head injuries and concussions is relevant to scholastic and youth sports.
This program is free and is intended for medical professionals, educators, coaches and parents of children in all sports.
The featured speaker is Kevin Guskiewicz, PhD, ATC-UNC, the distinguished professor and director of the Matthew Gfeller sport-related traumatic brain injury research center and the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes at the University of North Carolina.