凯文-古斯凯维茨 运动医学研究员

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Kevin Guskiewicz
Sports Medicine Researcher | Class of 2011
Combining laboratory and on-the-field investigations to advance the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of sports-related brain injuries and to improve the safety of athletes of all ages.


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Title
Sports Medicine Researcher
Affiliation
Department of Exercise & Sport Science, University of North Carolina
Location
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Age
45 at time of award
Area of Focus
Public Health and Biomedical/Health Sciences
Published September 20, 2011
ABOUT KEVIN'S WORK
Kevin Guskiewicz is a researcher and athletic trainer who has made major advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of sports-related concussions. Each year, approximately 3.8 million athletes in the United States experience mild traumatic brain injuries, or concussions. Through a combination of laboratory and on-the-field research, Guskiewicz has played an important role in raising awareness about the prevalence and dangers of sports-related brain injuries in both professional and youth athletics. He was among the first to identify the long-term effects of multiple concussions, including cognitive impairment and depression in later life, through large-scale epidemiological studies of retired professional football players. Recognizing the inadequacy of traditional concussion screening tools — most rely solely on an athlete's self-report of symptoms — Guskiewicz demonstrated that postural control, or balance, serves especially well as an objective measure in the evaluation of concussive episodes. His portable and cost-effective Balance Error Scoring System is now widely used by athletic trainers at colleges and secondary schools to diagnose and manage injury more accurately and rapidly. Guskiewicz's recent work focuses on the cumulative effects of repetitive, sub-threshold brain impacts. Using accelerometers embedded in the helmets of college football and youth hockey players, he and colleagues are investigating the relationship between magnitude and number of head impacts and clinical symptoms of concussion. Taking this research a step further, he is working directly with collegiate football players and coaches to identify dangerous hits in real time and to correct improper tackling techniques associated with sustaining concussions. While engaging clinicians, coaches, parents, and athletes in recognizing the immediate and long-term effects of concussions, Guskiewicz is contributing significantly to state and federal policy discussions concerning development of more stringent return-to-play guidelines and head-gear investigations that will improve the safety of athletes of all ages.

BIOGRAPHY
Kevin Guskiewicz received a B.S. (1989) from West Chester University, an M.S. (1992) from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. (1995) from the University of Virginia. He is currently Kenan Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina, where he is also founding director of the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center and research director of the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes. He has been affiliated with the University of North Carolina since 1995.



凯文-古斯凯维茨
运动医学研究员 | 2011级
将实验室和现场调查结合起来，推进与运动有关的脑损伤的诊断、治疗和预防，并改善所有年龄段运动员的安全。


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标题
运动医学研究员
工作单位
北卡罗来纳大学运动和体育科学系
工作地点
北卡罗来纳州教堂山
年龄
获奖时45岁
重点领域
公共卫生和生物医学/健康科学
发表于2011年9月20日
关于凯文的工作
Kevin Guskiewicz是一名研究人员和运动训练师，他在诊断、治疗和预防与运动有关的脑震荡方面取得了重大进展。每年，美国约有380万名运动员经历轻度创伤性脑损伤，或脑震荡。通过实验室和现场研究的结合，古斯基维兹在提高人们对职业和青年运动中与运动有关的脑损伤的普遍性和危险性的认识方面发挥了重要作用。他是第一批通过对退役职业足球运动员的大规模流行病学研究，确定多次脑震荡的长期影响，包括认知障碍和日后的抑郁症。Guskiewicz认识到传统脑震荡筛查工具的不足之处--大多数工具仅依赖于运动员对症状的自我报告--因此证明姿势控制或平衡是评估脑震荡发作的一个特别好的客观措施。他的便携式和具有成本效益的平衡误差评分系统现在被大学和中学的运动训练师广泛使用，以更准确和快速地诊断和处理损伤。Guskiewicz最近的工作重点是重复的、阈值以下的大脑撞击的累积效应。他和同事们利用嵌入大学橄榄球和青年冰球运动员头盔中的加速度计，正在调查头部撞击的程度和数量与脑震荡临床症状之间的关系。在这项研究的基础上，他正在直接与大学橄榄球运动员和教练合作，实时识别危险的撞击，并纠正与脑震荡有关的不正确的攻防技术。在让临床医生、教练员、家长和运动员认识到脑震荡的直接和长期影响的同时，Guskiewicz对州和联邦的政策讨论做出了重大贡献，这些讨论涉及制定更严格的重返赛场准则和头盔调查，这将提高所有年龄段运动员的安全。

个人简历
凯文-古斯凯维奇获得了西切斯特大学的学士学位（1989年），匹兹堡大学的硕士学位（1992年），以及弗吉尼亚大学的博士学位（1995年）。他目前是北卡罗来纳大学运动和体育科学系的凯南特聘教授和系主任，他也是马修-格菲勒运动相关的创伤性脑损伤研究中心的创始主任和退役运动员研究中心的研究主任。自1995年以来，他一直与北卡罗来纳大学保持联系。