{"id":13168,"date":"2018-01-12T13:07:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T19:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=13168"},"modified":"2018-01-25T10:53:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:53:25","slug":"health-law-institute-hosts-conference-on-concussions-and-future-of-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/12\/health-law-institute-hosts-conference-on-concussions-and-future-of-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Law Institute hosts conference on concussions and future of football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just weeks before Minneapolis plays host to Super Bowl LII, <a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/health-law-institute\/\">Mitchell Hamline\u2019s Health Law Institute<\/a> will hold a conference on concussions in sports and what the consequences of brain trauma could mean for the future of football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImpact on the Gridiron: Safety, Accountability, and the Future of Football\u201d will be held 9 am\u201412:30 pm, Friday, Jan. 19, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Mitchell+Hamline+School+of+Law\/@44.9420158,-93.1403607,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x87f62a61e0cf6413:0xcf154ac0106c817d!8m2!3d44.942012!4d-93.138172\">Mitchell Hamline campus<\/a>, 875 Summit Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/activedata.mitchellhamline.edu\/EventRegistration.aspx?Rid=799&amp;Iid=159975&amp;Frm=\">Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis event is not about bashing the game of football or any other contact sport for that matter,\u201d said Barbara Colombo, director of Mitchell Hamline\u2019s Health Care Compliance Program. \u201cInstead, it\u2019s designed to tackle key issues facing players, parents, doctors, and lawyers regarding head injuries and brain trauma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event will feature presentations and panel discussions with experts in concussion research and representatives from the legal and sports communities.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmed participants include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li>Alan C. Page, retired Minnesota Supreme Court justice and former Minnesota Vikings defensive lineman<\/li>\n<li>Concussion researchers Jessica Roberts, consultant with the Harvard Football Players Health Study, and Dr. Uzma Samadani, neurologist with Hennepin County Medical Center, on the latest in the diagnoses of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)<\/li>\n<li>Mike Grant, Eden Prairie High School head football coach and son of former Vikings head coach Bud Grant<\/li>\n<li>Jim Souhan, Minneapolis Star Tribune sports columnist<\/li>\n<li>Blake Baratz, player representative and president of Institute for Athletes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Attendance rates:<br \/>\n$50 for non-Mitchell Hamline CLE credit-seeking attendees<br \/>\n$10 for non-CLE seeking attendees<br \/>\nFREE for Mitchell Hamline students, alumni, faculty, staff, and Health Law Institute advisory board members<\/p>\n<p>Pending Approval for 3 CLE Credits<br \/>\nLive Webcast Available<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just weeks before Minneapolis plays host to Super Bowl LII, Mitchell Hamline\u2019s Health Law Institute will hold a conference on concussions in sports and what the consequences of brain trauma could mean for the future of football. \u201cImpact on the Gridiron: Safety, Accountability, and the Future of Football\u201d will be held 9 am\u201412:30 pm, Friday, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/12\/health-law-institute-hosts-conference-on-concussions-and-future-of-football\/\" class=\"more-link\">Health Law Institute hosts conference on concussions and future of football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4909,"featured_media":13169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}