Sports-Specific "Return to Play" Protocols: Age 5 years through adult (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781985830653)

Karen Laugel, MD, FAAP is a Board Certified Pediatrician and Assistant Clinical Professor at Quinnipiac School of Medicine. She founded Pedi-Care, Pediatric Care Associates of Connecticut, in 1988. She is the Medical Director and Founder of HeadZone, a comprehensive medical practice caring for patients (5-22 years old) with head injuries. She has over thirty years of experience as a community educator and is President of ConcussionCORPS, a non-profit community outreach program for concussion education and prevention. She was appointed by Connecticut's Governor in 2014 to serve on the State Task Force on Concussion in Youth Sports and was a contributing author to the State Department of Education's 2015 "Concussion Education Plan and Guidelines for Connecticut Schools." She serves as Chair of the Connecticut Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Traumatic Brain Injury-Return to Learn Initiative and is a member of the Connecticut Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board. She was recently awarded a CATCH grant from the American Academy of Pediatrics to develop concussion management teams and policies in a Connecticut public school system in collaboration with their school based health centers.