Course

Description
ImPACTs Lunch and Learn Series
Trajectories with Treatment Pathways
October 28, 2014


Course Description
This 60-minute course will explain how to use the
clinical interview, vestibular-ocular screening and
ImPACT profiles to determine the clinical trajectories
and treatment pathways for the individual patient post-
injury.
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Certificate of Completion Issued to All Registered.
BOC Credits available for Athletic Trainers.
The ImPACT Applications, Inc. software is a tool that provides basic
data related to neurocognitive functioning. ImPACT does not provide
treatment recommendations or a specific medical diagnosis with respect to
any particular end user. The training provided today on the use of its
software is intended to provide users with the ability to properly administer
and to become familiar with the types of data generated by the software.
Treatment decisions that you and/or your organization make based on the
data generated by the software is in your sole and absolute discretion


Speaker
Bio
Speaker Biography

Michael W. Collins, PhD

Michael (Micky) Collins, Ph.D., is a nationally renowned expert in
sports-related concussion. A leading clinician and researcher, Dr. Collins is the
director of the UPMC Sports Medicine Concussion Program. Established in
2000, it is the first and largest research and clinical program that is focused on
the diagnosis, evaluation and management of sports-related mild traumatic
brain injury in athletes of all levels. Dr. Collins expertise attracts many elite and
professional athletes from around the World to seek his comprehensive clinical
care. On a yearly basis,
Dr. Collins treats thousands of high school, college and professional athletes with concerns regarding
safe return to play following concussion and treatment/rehabilitation of the injury.

In addition to his extensive clinical experience, Dr. Collins has been a lead author on several major
groundbreaking studies of high school and college athletes published in JAMA, Neurosurgery, American
Journal of Sports Medicine, and Pediatrics, and he has written more than 60 peer-reviewed research
articles for other prestigious medical journals. He is Associate Editor of the Journal Sports Neurology and
serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Athletic Training and Brain Injury Professional. He is a
frequently invited presenter at international and national scientific meetings on brain injury in sports.

Dr. Collins has been instrumental in the development of numerous concussion management programs at
the youth, collegiate and professional sports level nationwide. Dr. Collins is a co-founder of ImPACT
(Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing), the first and most widely used
computerized sports-concussion evaluation system that has become a standard of care in nearly all
organized sports at all levels. He has become a national leader in teaching and implementing the proper
use of ImPACT as a clinical tool to help determine injury severity and recovery for safe return to play for
athletes at all levels of sport participation. Dr. Collins was the co-lead author of the Centers for Disease
Controls Concussion Tool Kit for Physicians, which has been disseminated nationwide to several
physician subspecialties as an education standard regarding concussion management. Dr. Collins is a
consultant to the Pittsburgh Steelers Football club and is an advisor to numerous athletic organizations,
both nationally and Internationally. He has consulted with numerous organizations, including Major
League Baseball, USA Rugby, US Lacrosse, the New Zealand Rugby Football Union, Cirque De Soleil,
the National Federation of High Schools, as well as being an advisor to numerous high level collegiate
sport programs across the Big Ten, SEC, PAC 10, Big East, and ACC conferences.

Dr. Collins professional memberships include the International Neuropsychological Association, National
Academy of Neuropsychology, and the North American Brain Injury Society. A graduate of the University
of Southern Maine with a bachelors degree in psychology and biology, Dr. Collins earned a masters
degree in psychology and doctorate degree in clinical psychology at Michigan State University. The North
American Brain Injury Society recognized Dr. Collins with the 2005 Innovations in Treatment Award,
given annually to an individual for developing and implementing innovative and efficacious treatment for
persons with brain injuries. An athlete himself, Dr. Collins played for the University of Southern Maine in
the 1989 NCAA Baseball College World Series.