About Why this neurologist doesn’t allow her kids to play football
Ann McKee is the director of Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center, and formerly served as the director of neuropathology at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Bedford, Mass. She discusses her past research into the disease in dozens of former football players. FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with major support from Ford Foundation. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Trust, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.
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