Prof. Shen Presents Bill Seeking Accountability and Innovation in Youth Sports Concussion Arena

Law Professor Francis Shen, director of the Neurolaw Lab at the University of Minnesota Law School, will present a bill to the Minnesota House Health and Human Services Reform Committee on March 7th at the State Office Building. The bill is designed to create accountability and innovation in the arena of traumatic brain injuries in youth sports. It builds upon a 2011 law that introduced a new set of protocols to govern the treatment of concussions experienced by youth athletes in Minnesota. Prof. Shen also leads a new University of Minnesota Grand Challenges initiative on concussions—a campus-wide effort to advance the research goals of the Twin Cities campus Strategic Plan. The sports concussions project is a new collaboration between six researchers across five different units, all focused on various aspects of traumatic brain injury.