Shawn
@shawn_eagle
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Research Assistant Professor Department of Neurological Surgery Neurotrauma Clinical Trials Center (@Pitt_NCTC) University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined June 2014
Fencing response following concussion and recovery time #DrDavidOkonkwo @shawn_eagle #NFL @TumorSection @CNS_Update #2025cns #cns2025 #cnsconnects #LA @NeurosurgeryCNS @IsaacYangMD @UCLANsgy @UCLA_ENT @UCLAHealth @dgsomucla @HarborUCLA @HarborUCLASurg @HarborTrauma
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Incorporation of 2 weeks of daily vital and labs (MAP, PaCO₂, glucose) significantly improve 6-month outcome predictions after severe TBI, outperforming the standard IMPACT model. https://t.co/IrX75tiCeo
@pitt_nctc @shawn_eagle, @reganmshanahan, @shovanbhatia, @michaelkann_r
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If you’re interested in clinical TBI research apply to join our team! @Pitt_NCTC @PittNeurosurg @Neurotrauma @AANSCNStrauma @bntg_uk @J_Neurotrauma
https://t.co/Z1WKknCK1K
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If you’re interested in clinical TBI research apply to join our team! @Pitt_NCTC @PittNeurosurg @Neurotrauma @AANSCNStrauma @bntg_uk @J_Neurotrauma
https://t.co/Z1WKknCK1K
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Please share this new Post Doctoral Associate position to join our team @Pitt_NCTC ! Apply if interested! https://t.co/ZdiYcQJSch
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Excited to see our work with the CARE consortium in @SportsMedicineJ today! Obese BMI effects concussion recovery even in athletes and military cadets @PittNeurosurg @Pitt_NCTC
https://t.co/lM4JJcLrk6
link.springer.com
Sports Medicine - Obesity is associated with chronic circulatory inflammation; higher acute inflammation is associated with worse outcomes from concussion. The purpose of this study is to evaluate...
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Congratulations Ava! Very well done!
Congratulations to Ava Puccio for receiving the @Neurotrauma Mary Ann Liebert Inc Award for Science, a career achievement award recognizing notable scientific contributions in the field of neurotrauma and impactful contributions to education and mentoring. https://t.co/CdZ2RO9iA4
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It was an honor to present at #NNS2025 alongside mentors/colleagues and share emerging clinical trial evidence for mTBI targeted treatments 🎯🧠. Thanks to all who came out. Stay tuned for more to come! 👀 @Neurotrauma
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At #Neurotrauma2025, Ava Puccio (c) received the Mary Ann Liebert Award for Science for outstanding contributions to the field of neurotrauma and Pat Kochanek (r) the Honorary Award for lifelong contributions to advancing science and care for TBI. @Neurotrauma @UPMC @Pitt_NCTC
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50 free downloads for our work at Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery! In multiple cohorts from @MedicalCollege we show that patients with concussion recover more slowly than patients presenting to the hospital with GCS13-15. @PittNeurosurg @Pitt_NCTC
https://t.co/TNBW3Febfm
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Downstream effects of these implications in popular media are assumptions of inevitable neurodegeneration and permanence of symptoms after having #concussions, leading to mental health crises and suicidality in youth ( https://t.co/8aMcMtBNeB) and adult athletes (PMID: 39312218).
nytimes.com
Figuring out how to make the sport safer remains an urgent matter of public health.
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#CTE exists as a postmortem diagnosis of neuropathic change; what is debatable (at best) from current evidence is the clinical relevance of its presence and the implied causality with little support. This needs to be appropriately communicated to the public.
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2). The discussion and implication of a causal relationship between contact sport exposure and development of #CTE. Recent work discredited prior claims for this causal relationship (PMID: 39277838). The science is simply not there.
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There are many examples of subclinical neuropathic changes identified in the postmortem brain which have no clinical presentation at all (even phosphorylated tau; PMID: 25348064).
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1). discussion of #CTE as a neurodegenerative disease, which it currently is not. CTE is a neuropathic change id'd at autopsy; the relationship between postmortem CTE detection and premortem clinical relevance is unknown. Associations have been reported in highly biased samples.
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The @ArmchairExpPod on #CTE was more tempered than I had expected, but there were two troubling points that continue to be portrayed in the popular media with little scientific evidence.
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It was a pleasure to present our work from TRACK-TBI for @VuMedi ! Check out the video below to understand how early symptoms can predict worse functional outcomes and quality of life after an ED visit for TBI. @GreenJournal
https://t.co/6ieMnbNKJI
https://t.co/B1F4uwnaGD
neurology.org
Background and ObjectivesThe objective was to evaluate the association of subacute postconcussion symptoms (with the total Rivermead Post-Concussion Questionnaire [RPQ] score) with persistent...
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A new study including several SNS members showed that in American football players a fencing response/tonic posturing after concussion was not associated with differences in SAC, mBESS, symptom reporting or time to return to full participation. https://t.co/vzhsyxgemO
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Fencing response after concussion was not associated with symptom recovery, concussion severity, or short-term recovery in professional American football.
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An international team of experts, led by our Chief of Neurotrauma Geoffrey Manley, MD, PhD, has developed an updated framework for classifying traumatic brain injuries. The new system, published in @TheLancetNeuro, aims to improve patient care: https://t.co/rG5LIwmGRt
@ZSFGCare
nytimes.com
Nearly 100 neurology experts collaborated on the creation of a new method of evaluating patients with traumatic brain injuries.
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