The replay will be available on the as. Pn dereksheely. For those of you that may have come in late one of the things that this foundation wanted to do together was to try to find a way to do research that is going to be meaningful and impactful. Weve learned so much about doing datadriven and informed decisionmaking and that is really important and when we cant make decisions from science would try to make the best consensus possible. Science is coming forward. I mentioned earlier today that the ncaa has come together and started something called the grand alliance. The grand alliance has two parts to it. One is called mind matters. It is a grand challenge. With that how do we actually gather education and research to know that we can better inform the public and everybody about the safety and improve the culture of concussion safety. For example how do we get Young Athletes to report concussions and not try to hide them. How do we make certain that coaches are never asking the players to play through a concussion. We are trying to get the best evidence for that because we know in life knowledge does not necessarily change behavior. We knew for years that they did not say that there was a correlation between smoking tobacco and lung cancer. The Surgeon General said smoking tobacco causes lung cancer. That didnt change. That is one part of the grand alliance is to try to understand how to change the culture of sports. The second part is to actually look at what is a concussion and what is repetitive head impact. How do we measure it from a biological or neurological point of view. That is something called the Care Consortium. That stands for Concussion Assessment Research and education. That is a study that involves 30 schools and we are looking at all 24 sports at involves having study close to 50,000 athletes and tracking over 3500 concussions and defining them on clinical grounds and mineralogical grounds. One of the spinoffs of the Care Consortium that is very new is called care. It stands for care affiliated program. Which is started last year with the four schools from the past 12. They actually are aligning themselves with the consortium but they are running it semi autonomously. Is not being done through the core investigators. So what that allows is that allows the schools to maybe do some research that is not locked into care. The one advantage of a very large study like this is that we are getting data that nobody in the world has ever gone and it is unprecedented in terms of schools coming together and working collaboratively. One of the disadvantages is that we are locked into a protocol. You cant say well lets just change the protocol midstream. The vision of this care affiliated program is that lets get the core aspects of care but then lets let the participating schools do what they do best. So that is the idea getting started. When i was talking about how can we honor the memory of derek and if we will commit to doing research we all decided we do not want it to be a one off sort of research grant. We wanted it to have a lasting and meaningful impact. They made one request which is very clear. They said that derek had a very strong affinity to penn state. They said what about doing something with penn state and i said that would be fantastic. Penn state is actually really already demonstrating that from the point of view of looking at neural imaging and looking at blood based biomarkers and doing the research they are really one of the leaders in the country. They also happen to have an awesome Athletics Program and Athletic Director but to do research at a school does not mean that you have great researchers. If you are going to do research on student athletes. It means you have to have an incredible collaborative relationship between the Athletics Department and the science people. I have visited close to a couple hundred schools and i have seen incredible Athletics Departments and science departments but sometimes they are in different parts of the campus and they do not know where the others are located. So that was one part of the request and the other was to make it something that will be impactful. As we set it in the beginning this was about a living memory that we hope will go on and become even transformed over time. He will always be a 22yearold son but for us the living memory of derek will change over time. We wanted to change so that it becomes transformative in that it will transform culture and science. That is very important i think to everyone in this room. I can tell you personally it is very important to me. So one of the things that we came up with was how about if penn state became part of the care affiliated program and we do advanced research through their expertise. So that is the commitment that we have made. They have given us a formal proposal. I have looked at that proposal and we have run it through the infrastructure needs of the care affiliated program. We are some of the individuals that oversee the advanced research in the program and i have run it through the numbers crunchers and i can tell you that the commitment is there 100 . I wish i could tell you right now this is the final proposal but i can tell you what it is going to include as a minimum is highly advanced research. I am hopeful it will be narrow imaging but the biomarkers and it will actually feed into the care affiliated program which is what that does it is allows us to take the expertise that penn state brings us and to cross compare that with the expertise of Care Consortium so we both learn from one another and it takes us even one step further. So that is the pledge. I think, ken and kristin you really helped us to shape this vision and as somebody who believes very much in academics and science this is critically important. I think it will move the way that the ncaa looks at things Going Forward and i think it will have a considerable effect on the entire issues of how we understand concussion and how we understand repetitive head impact and how we understand brain injury. Both from a repetitive point of view but also from a management and treatment point of you. I really would like to invite my colleagues from penn state to come up and post about yourselves a little bit. And share with us the work that you have been doing both from the athletics and from the science point of view and then i will come up and join you after that. I can already call you my colleagues. I could have done that in the past as well but even more so now. [applause] good afternoon i have the pleasure of serving as a senior associate Athletic Director for the student Performance Health and welfare at penn state. Its an awesome responsibility and i have the pleasure of working with esteemed colleagues every single day working to enhance the well being of the student athletes. The primary focus at penn state is talking about the communication and making sure that people are responding to student athlete needs. We have had the fortune of building a strong team that is highly integrated so the education we have partnered with to ensure that our care is at the highest level. We have worked with the Kinesiology Department and we have come together to say this is the priority. We will be committed to research. We will be committed to providing the best care. I would like to say on behalf of penn state and the director of athletics i would like to say thank you so much to the derek sheely family for partnering with us. Also to the ncaa for bringing us on board to continue the great work we have been committed to for many years. We promise you we will give you our best we will be great partners in this endeavor to honor derek and to ensure that student athletes have the very best care and the education. What you have asked for is not hard. It is not a difficult task to educate our student athletes and give them a platform to come forward when they feel like they are in harms way and they need care and assistance we will do our very best. Thank you very much for this partnership and i would like to turn it over to my colleagues. I am the assistant Athletic Director for athletic training at penn state. Ive had the privilege of working there for 27 years. Mainly within the Athletic Department but i spent six years in the Kinesiology Department. I just want to thank mr. And mrs. Sheely. I was very moved by their story and i also want to thank cody for sharing your story as well because i think by you having the courage to come forward to share what your experience has been it is going to make a difference and it is going to change lives. Its important that student athletes have a voice and share their experience so we can learn and provide better services, but are medical services and better education so i am blessed to be here it has been a wonderful day. I think the presentations have been very beneficial. I am excited about taking some of the information that we have gained back to our university. I am the Team Physician for penn state football and softball. Im a professor of orthopedics and family medicine. I teach other physicians how to become a Sports Medicine physician. I am part of the Penn State Center for Concussion Research and service. We are honored to be a part of the program so thank you for the invitation and thank you for asking us to be included. It will enable us to continue to do the research that we are already doing and to continue to go the next step. One of the proposals that we will do as far as our research is we are going to follow our athletes preand post season with advanced mri imaging. We will look at concussive and self because of injury over the entire year. We will look for changes and see if there are changes that will happen. We will also use blood biomarkers and genetics to see if there are certain people that are more predisposed to having those changes. We will be looking at genetics and epigenetics. We will see if certain genes are turned on because of environmental exposure. We just want to thank you for your generosity. We just want to honor dereks legacy. He is always part of the penn state family. We have spoken today a couple of times where weve talked about genetics and epigenetics when we were speaking about how to we understand the 1199 people versus the one person. This is really a big part of what we are doing Going Forward. In maybe two or three years i think we will have a much better understanding of certain kinds of risks and help with that. This has been a real learning day. I have been honored to be part of this group and listening to the Panel Discussion and the discussion this morning. From my point of view i just want to close by thanking everyone. Think in the audience and the participants and thinking can and kristin. I know this has been so difficult and we just wanted to do everything that we could to honor you and honor derek and to do whatever we can to make certain that there is a legacy and a living memory Going Forward. I can tell you that that is our pledge. I believe it is the pledge of everyone that has been here. I really think penn state for going out of your way to really help us take one good idea and make it even better. So that is going to be cold Going Forward. If you would like to share some remarks and help close this event. I just want to thank everybody from attending the conference i hope that everybody that attended learned maybe one thing we would also like to thank George Washington university and the ncaa. Especially brian and john solomon and john parsons. Thank you very much for working to make this a successful conference. As was recently said it was extremely impactful. So thank you very much. [applause] Robert Mueller testified to congress on wednesday about possible obstruction of justice and abuse of power by President Trump and russian interference in the 2016 president ial election. Watch our coverage on cspan 3. You can download the radio app to listen live wherever you are. Earlier today the Senate Confirmed mark esper as