One of the things of the Derek Sheely Foundation and the ncaa wanted to do was to find a way to do research that is going to be meaningfully impactful. So we have heard so much today about making datadriven decisions or informed decisionmaking, and that is really important. When we cannot make decisions from science, we try to get the best consensus as possible. But science is coming forward. The department of defense and the ncaa is coming together, as they started something called the grand alliance, and the grand alliance has two parts to it. One is something called mind matters. It is a grand challenge. How do we gather education and research to know that we can better inform the public of everyone about the safety of concussions . Or better put, to improve the culture of concussion safety. How do we get Young Athletes to report concussions and not try to hide them . How do we make sure coaches are never asking their players to play through concussions . We are asking for the best evidence about this, because we know knowledge does not necessarily change behavior. We know for many years, the Surgeon General of the United States did not say there was a correlation between smoking tobacco as lung cancer. The Surgeon General said smoking tobacco causes lung cancer. But that did not change the smoking rate in the United States. It was not until there was a significant culture change that things shifted. That is one part of the ncaa department of Defense Grand Alliance is trying to understand the culture change of sports. The second part is to look at what is a concussion, what is repetitive head impacts, how do we measure it clinically, how do we measure it from a biological neurobiological point of view . That is something from the c. A. R. E. Consortium, c. A. R. E. Sense for concussive concussion assessment, resource, and investigation, and that is a study that involves 30 schools, and we are looking at all 24 sports. It involves now having studied close to 50,000 athletes from the Service Academies and ncaa member schools tracking over 3500 concussions and defining them on clinical grounds and neurobiological grounds using highlyadvanced research. One of the spinouts of the c. A. R. E. Consortium that is very new is called c. A. R. E. C. A. P. S. , and that stands for c. A. R. E. Affiliated programs. We just started with four schools from the past 12. Pack 12. They are aligning themselves with the c. A. R. E. Consortium, but they are running the studies so my autonomously. That allows the schools to do research that is not locked into c. A. R. E. The advantage of a large study like this is we are getting data that no one has ever gotten, and it is unprecedented in terms of schools coming together and 30 working in a collaborative manner. One of the disadvantages is we are locked into a protocol. We cannot say that we can change the protocol midstream. So the vision of the c. A. R. E. Affiliated program is ok, lets get the core aspects of c. A. R. E. , but then lets let the participating schools do what they do best, so that is the idea about getting started. When i was talking with mr. And mrs. Sheely and how can we honor the memory of derek, we did not want it to be a oneoff, lets let it have a meaningful impact, and mr. And mrs. Sheely made one request, which is clear, they said derek had a really strong affinity to penn state, the sheely family does. And i said what about doing something with penn state . And i said said that would be fantastic, because penn state has already demonstrated from the point of view of looking at neural imaging, bloodbased biomarkers and doing the research they are one of the leaders. They also happen to have an awesome Athletics Program and Athletic Director, but to do research at a school does not mean you have great researchers. If youre going to do research on student athletes. It means you have to have an incredible, collaborative relationship between the Athletics Department and the science people. I have visited close to 100 a couple hundred schools very a couple hundred schools and i can see incredible Athletic Department and incredible science departments, but sometimes they are in different parts of the campus, and they do not know where the others are located, so this takes a real collaborative effort. That was one part of the request. And the other was to make it, you know, something that is going to be impactful. Again, as we said in the beginning, this is about a living memory, so this is a living memory that we hope will go on and really become even transformed over time. Our memory of derek, yes, mrs. Sheely, you said he will always be your 22yearold son, but also the living memory of derek is going to change over time, and we wanted to change that it will be transformative, and that will transform culture. That will transform science, and that is very important to everyone in this room. I can tell you personally it is very important to me. One of the things we came up with is well, how about if penn state became a part of the c. A. R. E. Affiliated program, and we benefited from their expertise . They have given us a formal proposal. I have looked at that formal proposal, and we have run it through the infrastructure needs of a c. A. R. E. Affiliated program. We have run it through the individuals who have overseen the advanced research in the c. A. R. E. Program, add i have run it through the numbers crunchers, and i can tell you that the commitment is there, 100 . I wish i can tell you right now this was the final proposal, but i can tell you what it is going to include as a minimum is highlyadvanced research, certainly highlyadvanced research and neural imaging with the biomarkers, and it will actually feed into the c. A. R. E. Affiliated program, which is what that does is it allows us to take the expertise that penn state brings us, and actually to cross compare that with the expertise of c. A. R. E. Consortium, and it takes us even one step further. So that is our pledge. I thank, ken and kristen, you really helped to shape this, this vision, and as someone who believes very much in academics and science, this shaping of the vision is very important, and i think it is going to move the the way the ncaa looks at things going forward, and i think it is going to have a considerable effect on entire issues of how we understand concussion somehow we understand repetitive head impact, and how we understand brain injury, both from a preventative point of view but also a management and treatment point of view. I would really like to invite my colleagues from penn state to come up and speak about yourselves and boast about yourselves a little bit. And share with us the work that you have been in from both an athletic and in science point of view, and then maybe we will, then i will come up and join you after that again, and mr. And mrs. Sheely will come up and add some closing remarks, so i would like to invite well, i can already call you my colleagues. I could have done in the past, too, but even more so now. [applause] will dir. Green good afternoon, everybody. My name is charmelle green. I have the pleasure of serving as a Senior Associate Athletic director for for Student Health and performance welfare at penn state. It is an awesome responsibility, and i had the pleasure of working with esteemed colleagues every single day working to enhance and ensure the health and wellbeing of our student athletes. Our primary focus at penn state. We have come over the past three years, been focusing on, and i have heard a lot of people talking about communications and the importance of communication and making sure that our people are responding quickly to our student athlete needs. We have had the Great Fortune of building a strong team that is highly integrated, in terms of the practitioners at penn state and the researchers and the education, academics unit that we have partnered with to make sure the our care is the highest level. We have worked with our community elegy department, with penn state health, was athletics, and we have come together to say this is our priority. We will be committed to research. We will be committed to providing the very best care for our student athletes. I would like to say on behalf of penn state and sandy barbour, our director of athletics and Intercollegiate Athletics as well as penn state health, our Concussion Research center, i would like to say thank you so much for partnering with us, this important initiative, brian and Sport Sciences at the ncaa, for bringing us on board, to be able to continue the great work that we have been committed and devoted to for many years now. We promise we will give our best and we will be great partners in this endeavor to honor derek and to ensure the student athletes have the very best care and the education. What you have asked for is not hard. It is not a difficult ask to educate our student athletes and give them a platform to come forward when there is a need, when they feel that they are in harms way and they need care and assistance, we will do our very best. So thank you very much for the partnership. I would like to turn it over to my colleagues. Renee hi. My name is renee messina. Yet i am the assistant Athletic Director at penn state. I had the privilege of working there for 27 years. Mainly for the Athletic Department but i spent six years in the physiology department. I just want to thank mr. Mrs. Sheely for having us here today, for sharing their stories. I am a parent of two, so obviously i was very moved by their story. I want to thank cody for sharing your story, because by you in having the courage to come forward in a manner to share what youre experience has been is going to make a difference. It is going to change lives. It is important that student athletes have a voice and share their experience so that we can learn, and we can provide better services, better medical services, better education to our coaches and medical professionals. It has been a wonderful day. The presentations have been very beneficial. Im excited about the opportunity to take information we have gained today back to our university and certainly to move forward with the Concussion Research. Dr. Seidenberg i am dr. Pete seidenberg, a professor of orthopedics and family medicine. I am a Team Physician for penn state football and basketball. I am also a fellowship director to teach others the benefits of sports medicine, but also i am a Concussion Researcher. So i am part of the Penn State Center for Concussion Research and service, and we are honored to be a part of this program, and so thank you for the invitation, and thank you for asking us to be included. It means a lot to us. This will enable us to continue the Amazing Research were doing and to go the next step. One of the proposals that we are going to do as far as our research is were going to follow our athletes pre and postseason with advanced mri imaging. Were going to look at the effects of concussive and sub concussive injury over the entire football career. Each year, we will look for changes and see if there are changes that happen. We will also use blood biomarkers and genetics to see if there are certain people who are more predisposed to having those changes. So whether you are looking at genetics, seeing if certain genes are turned on because of the environmental exposure. And so we just want to thank you for your generosity. We just want to honor dereks legacy, and he is always a part of the penn state family, so thank you. Dr. Hainline so thank you. Really looking forward. We have spoken today a couple of times where we have talked about genetics, epigenetics, graham oconnor, when you were talking about how do we understand the 199,000 people versus the one person. This is a really big part of what we are on going forward, and i dont know, maybe two or three years, i think we will have a much better understanding of certain kind of risks and help with that. This has been a real learning day. I think it has been i have just been honored to be part of this group and listening to the Panel Discussions and the discussions this morning. Maybe, from my point of view, i want to close by thanking everyone, thanking the audience, thanking the participants, and again, mostly ken and kristen, thanking you. This has been i know so difficult, and we just wanted to do everything that we could to honor you, honor derek, um, and do whatever we can to make certain that there is a legacy and a living memory going forward, and so i can tell you that that is our pledge. I believe it is the pledge of everyone who has been here. And again, i really thank penn state for going out of your way to really help us shape and, you know, one good idea and make it even better. So that is really going to be cool going forward. And maybe, ken and kristen, if you would like to share some remarks and help close this event while we open to, you know, a different future. Ken well, on behalf of kristen and derek and keaton, let me thank everybody for attending the conference, either in person or online on cspan. We talked about education and learning, and we do hope that everybody who attended maybe learned one thing that they did not know coming in here and something they can apply as they move over, so that is really important to us. We would like to thank George Washington university, the ncaa, but especially brian and john solomon and john parsons, thank you very much for working with us to make this a successful conference. As was recently said, cody, thank you for a much for your courage to share your story with everybody. I think that was extremely impactful, and we do appreciate your courage and coming out and talking about your experiences, so they can bring much. Do you want to say anything . Kristen thank you. Ken thank you. [applause] cspans washington journal is live every day with new and public issues that impact you. Securitys National Reporter and a congressional reporter join us to preview Robert Muellers congressional testimony wednesday. We talk with a New York Times magazine contributing writer about his reporting on the life and career of special counsel bob mueller. Live at 7 00 eastern this morning. Network withsmall an unusual name rolled out a big idea. Cspan opened the door to washington policymaking for all to see. Bringing you unfiltered content from congress and beyond. But today theged big ideas are more relevant than ever. Cspan is your unfiltered view of government. Brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. 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