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Tackling Cognitive & Behavioral Health in Sports:

The Harvard  Global health summit is a premier yearly event bringing leaders together to discuss and partner in developing innovative solutions to vexing health problems and or advocating for progress towards improved health outcomes that save lives. Participants will come from Harvard, across the USA and from around the world.  

 

A major focus of the summit is cancer but we are partnering this year with the sports community to expand our education and advocacy initiatives. To this end, along with our cancer advocates,  we will be pioneering a meeting on sports health with the theme, “Tackling Issues of Cognitive & Behavior Health in Sports.” This one day event will focus on the two major issues in today’s sports world; player concussions and player conduct. 

 

Join fellow experts and advocates in the areas of concussions, behavior, leadership, and sports to begin to process of changing the narrative on these issues to focusing on the need for providing practical solutions that address the current and immediate challenges facing today’s athlete. 

 

 

Inspiring talks, productive  panel discussions, knowledge sharing, ideas on practical solutions:      (Please check back soon for updates, registration, speakers  and programming)
Bobby McCray

Bobby McCray

Founder and CEO of Atlas Group Advisors, Super Bowl XLIV Champion

Julie Dyrdek Broad

Julie Dyrdek Broad

George Washington University Booz Allen Hamilton in support of The Army Resiliency Directorate, Comprehensive Soldier & Family Fitness

Tommy Shavers PhD

Tommy Shavers PhD

President of Tommy Speak LLC. Co-Founder of Atlas Group Advisors and Unus Solutions Inc

Richard Lapchick, Ph.D

Richard Lapchick, Ph.D

Eminent Scholar, Endowed Chair and Director, DeVos Sport Business Management; Vice President/CEO, NCAS; Director, The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport

Peter Roby

Peter Roby

Athletic Director of Northeastern University

Mark Robinson, PhD

Mark Robinson, PhD

Sr. Director for the Institute for Personal Player Development

Fred Luthans, PhD MBA

Fred Luthans, PhD MBA

University and George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Management, Nebraska. Former USA Army Captain at West point

Marc Williams, PhD

Marc Williams, PhD

Founder of Williams Communications, LLC, Sports Marketing Pioneer, Pop Culture Expert, Leadership and Professional Development

Alexander P. Lin, PhD

Alexander P. Lin, PhD

Director Center for Clinical Spectroscopy Brigham and Women’s Hospital Assistant Professor of Radiology Harvard Medical School

Objectives:  

  • Create awareness in the sports and science world of the need to pursue solutions that address the cognitive and behavior health needs of athletes while are still living.

  • Allow individuals to share lived experiences with concussions and behavior to illustrate the importance of solution based practices to both concussion recovery and conduct development

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Expected outcomes

  • Workshop publication with discussed recommendations, which could potentially benefit past, current, and future athletes cognitive and behavioral health.

  • Start a national conversation about potential solutions for current & future concussion sufferers.

  • An increased hope for current suffers of the possibility of solutions to the long term cognitive effects of concussions and CTE.

  •  Convey the need for behavioral development to become a primary focus in sports to address the at-risk behavior needs of athletes.

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