University and the derek shealy foundation. My name is john solomon, editorial director with a Sports Society program. We are nonprofit washington dc, facilitate dialogue. I will be moderating the next 2 panels exploring best practices. Thank you to Brian Hainline for engaging the Student Foundation for allowing the opportunity. Let me personally say what a great honor it is, a conference i think a lot of people dont know the name derek shealy. Going to the radar. Derek played football. Tragically died when he sustained head injuries. The injuries were preventable. I didnt get a chance to meet derek but i got to know him a little bit. Previously as a reporter. A big part of this is honoring dereks legacy, and dialogue about the best way. And derek are that is what we are going to do. Last fall, healthy sports, available at healthysports. First of its kind free resource for parents, athletes, educators and others. The tool draws on the best data and expert analysis to evaluate 3 areas o
At this time, let me introduce the participants in todays discussion. We have a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She served as a minister to the dutch parliament. Focused parliament, she on furthering the integration of nonwestern immigrants into dutch society. Larry diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Years, hehan six directed fsi center where he now leads the program on democracy and its Global Digital policy incubator. Was the 26th assistant to the president for National Security affairs and served as a commissioned officer in the u. S. Army for 34 years before retiring in june, 2018. The moderator for todays panel is neil ferguson. Hooverior fellow at the institution and a senior fellow for the European Studies at harvard. Please join me in welcoming this esteemed group to the stage. Thank you,ernoon, tom for that introduction and thank you for joining us on such a beautiful afternoon when you could be outside playing frisbee. Im extremely excited to be
One of the things of the Derek Sheely Foundation and the ncaa wanted to do was to find a way to do research that is going to be meaningfully impactful. So we have heard so much today about making datadriven decisions or informed decisionmaking, and that is really important. When we cannot make decisions from science, we try to get the best consensus as possible. But science is coming forward. The department of defense and the ncaa is coming together, as they started something called the grand alliance, and the grand alliance has two parts to it. One is something called mind matters. It is a grand challenge. How do we gather education and research to know that we can better inform the public of everyone about the safety of concussions . Or better put, to improve the culture of concussion safety. How do we get Young Athletes to report concussions and not try to hide them . How do we make sure coaches are never asking their players to play through concussions . We are asking for the best
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 player
Welcome to the derek sheely conference, reducing catastrophic risk for student athletes. My name is brian hainline, the chief medical officer for the ncaa. I want to welcome everyone here, especially mr. And mrs. Sh eely, who will be speaking after me. Just a couple of housekeeping items. Refreshments are on the second floor. That is where we will be having lunch. This is an academic building. Classes are going on. This is being broadcast live. All of your remarks are going out to millions of people around the world who will be watching this. That is just the monday, and a few words of thanks. This is being cohosted with George Washington, University George washington university. Special thanks to president Thomas Leblanc of George Washington university, tonya vog el, the director of athletics who helped get this food together properly and chris kennelly, the associate director of athletics at George Washington university. John solomon is here from the Aspen Institute. The Aspen Instit