Odette Harris on Concussion, Brain Injury, and Why Every Sport Carries Risk

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What the source reports

Odette Harris, MD, MPH, Professor of Neurosurgery and the Paralyzed Veterans of America Professor of Spinal Cord Medicine at Stanford, joins The Future of Medicine for a conversation about concussion, traumatic brain injury, and what it takes to change how medicine thinks about the brain. The conversation was recorded in front of a live Medicine Grand Rounds audience.Dr.

Harris has spent her career arguing that concussions should be understood as brain injuries, not minor bumps. She explains her work with the National…

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Source & verification

Primary source: The Future of Medicine · September 27, 2026

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