Men’s Health: Concussions & Sports Injuries

Guest Bio: David W. Wright, MD, FACEP

David Wright, MD, is a tenured associate professor
of emergency medicine and director, Emergency
Neurosciences, Department of Emergency
Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Wright is actively involved in both the
preclinical and clinical assessment of traumatic
brain injury (TBI) and stroke. He is Principal
Investigator (PI) of the NIH funded multicenter
Phase III clinical trial, ProTECTTM (Progesterone for
TBI, experimental clinical treatment) and serves as PI of the Emory hub for the NIH Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials Network and Co-PI of the Emory hub for the new NIH Stroke Network.

Another one of Dr. Wright’s goals is to transform healthcare through the development of advanced technologies, especially for neurological diseases. He is an adjunct faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and works closely with an elite team of engineers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute where he participates in numerous concussion research and technology development endeavors. He is currently one of the top 3 NIH funded emergency medicine researchers in the United States.