William P. Meehan III, MD, is Director of the Micheli Center
for Sports Injury Prevention, Director of Research for the Brain Injury Center at
Boston Children’s Hospital, and Co-Director of The Football Players Health Study
at Harvard. He graduated from Harvard
Medical School where he is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and
Orthopaedics. He conducts both clinical
and scientific research in the area of sports injuries and concussive brain
injury. His research has been funded by
the National Institutes of Health, the Center for the Integration of Medicine
and Innovative Technology, the National Football
League Players Association, the National Football League, and the
National Hockey League Alumni Association. He is the 2012 winner of the
American Medical Society for Sports Medicine’s award for Best Overall
Research. He has multiple medical and
scientific publications, is co-editor of the book, Head and Neck Injuries in Young Athletes, and is author of the books
Kids, Sports, and Concussion: A Guide for
Coaches and Parents and Concussions.
Dr.
Meehan is a sports medicine physician and pediatrician who focuses on
brain and spine injuries sustained during sports. He oversees clinical
research cohorts as
part of The Micheli Center for Sports Injury Prevention, including a
cohort of patients who sustained sport-related concussions. He is the
co-director of a basic science laboratory using animal models of
concussion to determine biomarkers, treatments, and
long term sequelae of concussions. Dr. Meehan is also the associate
director of the Football Players Health Study at Harvard, a cohort study
of former National Football League players.
