Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu MD

PubMed

• Neuropathological Findings in the Brains of Deceased COVID-19 Patients.
  Armaan Shergill, Bennet Omalu, Peter Conner, Machelle Wilson
  The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology. 2025-06-01
• 1 citations
  Accuracy and validity of determined cause of death and manner of death following forensic autopsy prosection.
  Armaan Shergill, Peter Conner, Machelle Wilson, Bennet Omalu
  Journal of Clinical Pathology. 2024-08-16
• 2 citations
  In Reply: Recommendation to Create New Neuropathologic Guidelines for the Postmortem Diagnosis of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.
  Bennet Omalu, Jennifer Hammers
  Neurosurgery. 2022-01-01

Journal Articles

• Endoplasmic reticulum stress implicated in chronic traumatic encephalopathy  
  Lucke-Wold BP, Turner RC, Logsdon AF, Nguyen L, Bailes JE, Lee JM, Robson MJ, Omalu BI, Huber JD, Rosen CL., J Neurosurg, 1/1/2015
• PET scanning of brain tau in retired National Football League players: preliminary findings  
  Small GW, Kepe V, Siddarth P, Ercoli LM, Merrill DA, Donoghue N, Bookheimer SY, Martinez J, Omalu B, Bailes J, Barrio JR, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry., 1/1/2013
• Is there an association between coronary atherosclerosis and carcinoma of the prostate in men aged 50 years and older? An autopsy and coroner based post-mortem study  
  Omalu BI, Lindner JL, Parwani AV, Balani J, Shakir A, Ness RB, Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice, 1/1/2013
• The role of subconcussion in repetitive mild traumatic brain injury  
  Bailes J, Petraglia A, Omalu B, Nauman E, Talavage T, J Neurosurg, 1/1/2013
• Diagnosis of hemorrhagic stroke in an exhumed brain after three years of burial in a deep grave  
  Omalu B, Hammers J, Luckasevic T, Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1/1/2012
• Repetitive traumatic brain injury and development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy: a potential role for biomarkers in diagnosis, prognosis and treatment?  
  Turner RC, Lucke-Wold BP, Robson MJ, Omalu BI, Petraglia AL, Bailes JE, Frontiers in Neurology, 1/1/2012
• Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in an Iraqi war veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder who committed suicide  
  Omalu B, Hammers J, Bailes J, Hamilton RL, Kamboh MI, Webster G, Fitzsimmons R., Neurosurgical Focus, 1/1/2011
• Emerging Histomorphologic Phenotypes of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy [CTE] in American Athletes  
  Omalu B, Bailes J, Hamilton RL, Kamboh MI, Hammers J, Case M, Fitzsimmons R, Neurosurgery, 1/1/2011
• Risk of suicide after long-term follow-up from bariatric surgery  
  Tindle HA, Omalu B, Courcoulas A, Marcus M, Hammers J, Kuller LH, Am J Med., 1/1/2011
• Pathophysiological nervous system consequences of conducted electrical devices and sudden, unexpected death  
  Omalu B, J Forensic Nurs, 1/1/2011
• Autopsy features of sudden death due to isolated eosinophilic coronary arteritis: report of two cases and review of literature  
  Omalu BI, Hammers J, DiAngelo C, Moore S, Luckasevic T., J Forensic Nurs, 1/1/2011
• Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, suicides and parasuicides in professional American athletes: the role of the forensic pathologists  
  Omalu BI, Bailes J, Hammers J, Fitzsimmons, RP, Am J Forensic Med Pathol, 1/1/2010
• Death rates and causes of death following bariatric surgery for Pennsylvania residents, 1995 to 2004  
  Omalu BI, Ives DG, Buhari AM, Lindner JL, Schauer PR, Wecht CH, Kuller LH, Arch Surg, 1/1/2007
• The role of environmental factors in the causation of sudden death in infants: two cases of sudden unexpected death in two unrelated infants who were cared for by the ...  
  Omalu BI, Lindner JL, Janssen JK, Nnebe-Agumadu U, Weedn V., Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1/1/2007
• Forecasting as an operations management tool in a medical examiner’s office  
  Omalu BI, Shakir AM, Lindner JL, Tayur SR, Journal of Health Management, 1/1/2007
• Deaths resulting from hypocalcemia after administration of edetate disodium: 2003-2005  
  Brown MJ, Willis T, Omalu B, Leiker R., Pediatrics, 1/1/2006
• Post-mortem grading of cerebral contusions: a proposed modification of the Adams’ contusion index with re-definition of anatomic markers  
  Omalu B, Abdulrezak SM, Rozin L, Ladham S, Wecht CH., Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology, 1/1/2005
• Suicides following bariatric surgery for the treatment of obesity  
  Omalu BI, Cho P, Shakir AM, Agumadu UH, Rozin L, Kuller LH, Wecth CH, Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, 1/1/2005
• Forensic pathology and forensic epidemiology of suicides in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: a ten year retrospective review (1990 – 1999)  
  Omalu BI, Macurdy KM, Koehler ST, Nnebe-Agumadu UH, Shakir A, Rozin L, Wecht CH., Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology., 1/1/2005
• Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in an exhumed decomposed brain after twenty months of burial in a deep grave  
  Omalu BI, Mancuso JA, Cho P, Wecth CH, The Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1/1/2005
• Post-bariatric surgery deaths, which fall under the jurisdiction of a coroner  
  Omalu BI, Luckasevic T, Abdulrezak SM, Rozin L, Wecht CH, Kuller LH, Am J Forensic Med Pathol, 1/1/2004
• Death by chainsaw: fatal kickback injuries to the neck  
  Koehler SA, Luckasevic TM, Rozin L, Shakir A, Ladham S, Omalu B, Dominick J, Wecht CH., Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1/1/2004
• Cardiac concussion: Definition, Differential Diagnosis, and Cases Presentation and the Legal Ramification of a Misdiagnosis  
  Koehler SA, Shakir A, Ladham S, Rozin L, Omalu B, Dominick J, Wecht CH, Am J Forensic Med Pathol, 1/1/2004
• Pulmonary meningothelial-like nodules: a genotypic comparison with meningiomas  
  Ionescu DN, Sasatomi E, Aldeeb D, Omalu BI, Finkelstein SD, Swalsky PA, Yousem SA, American Journal of Surgical Pathology, 1/1/2004
• A 53-year-old male with new onset seizures  
  Omalu BIHT, Wiley CA, Hamilton RL, Brain Pathology, 1/1/2003
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Books/Book Chapters

• What Parents Should Know Before Letting Their Children Play 
  Chapter: Brain Damage in Contact Sports 
  Neo-Forenxis Books2018
• Truth Doesn’t Have a Side 
  Chapter: My Alarming Discovery about the Danger of Contact Sports 
  Editors: Bennet Omalu, with Mark Tabb.Zondervan Books, HarperCollins Christian Publishers2017
• The Healing Art of Pathology 
  Chapter: The Pathologist is the “Salt” of Patient Care 
  Omalu, B.Editors: MM, Galagan KA.CAP Press2016
• Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas 
  Random House, New York2015
• Handbook of Neurological Sports Medicine, Concussion and Other Nervous System Injuries in the Athlete 
  Chapter: Neuropathology of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy 
  Omalu, B.Editors: Petraglia AL, Bailes JE, Day AL.Human Kinetics, Champaign, Illinois2015
• A Historical Foundation of CTE in Football Players 
  Chapter: Before the NFL, There was CTE 
  Bennet Omalu, M.D. Bennet OmaluLodi, California2014
• Progress in Neurological Surgery 
  Chapter: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Concussion 
  Omalu, BEditors: Niranjan A and Lunsford LD.Karger, New York, New York2014
• League of Denial. The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth 
  Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve FainaruCrown-Archetype, Random House, New York2013
• Play Hard Die Young 
  Chapter: Football dementia, depression and death 
  Bennet Omalu, M.D.NeoForenxis Books, Lodi, California2008
• The Death Penalty on Trial, Crisis in American Justice, by Bill Kurtis 
  PublicAffairsTM2004
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Abstracts/Posters

• Bennet Omalu, MD. The Physician Leader Whose Research Inspired The Movie Concussion.
  Bill Steiger, PIJ- Physician Leadership Journal, American Association For Physician Leadership, 1/1/2016
• Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: Autopsy analysis in professional and contact sport athletes
  Bailes JE, Omalu B, American Academy of Neurological Surgery 71st annual meeting, West Palm Beach, Florida, 1/1/2009
• Nursing home deaths, which fall under the jurisdiction of the medical examiner. An eleven year retrospective review.
  Lindner JL, Omalu BI, Shakir AM., National meeting of the National Association of Medical Examiners, San Antonio, Texas, 1/1/2006
• Pulmonary steatosis: fatty degeneration of type II pneumocytes Harlem Hospital 6th Annual Research Fair
  Omalu B, Navarro C, Thomas L, Olibrice M, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, 1/1/1998
• Pulmonary steatosis: fatty degeneration of type II pneumocytes
  Omalu B, Navarro C, Thomas L, Olibrice M., Harlem Hospital 6th Annual Research Fair., College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, 1/1/1998
• An immunohistochemical profile of tumor associated antigens in malignant melanoma and benign melanocytic nevi: CD44, p53 protein, cathepsin B and melan-A gene product
  Omalu B, Navarro C, Coira-Pademonte M., Harlem Hospital 6th Annual Research Fair, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University., 1/1/1998
• Hepatitis B virus markers and liver function in patients with homozygous sickle cell disease.
  Omalu H, Omalu B, Library Archives, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, 1/1/1992
• Knowledge, attitude and practice of contraception among university students in Enugu, Nigeria.
  Omalu B, Library Archives, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, 1/1/1989
• Spectrum of Consequences of Sports-Related Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
  Bailes J, Omalu BI., Annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons, Phoenix, Arizona, 1/8./2008
• Autopsy findings, manner and cause of death in nursing home deaths investigated by the Allegheny county coroner’s Office, Pennsylvania: a five year retrospective review.
  Ionescu DN, Naus GJ, Shakir AM, Omalu BI., United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology 2005 Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 1/26/2005
• Nursing home deaths which fall under the jurisdiction of the coroner: an 11-year retrospective study
  Lindner JL, Omalu BI, Alhaji B, Shakir AM, Silverman JF, Wecht CH, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology 2006 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 1/11/2006
• Death rates and causes of death following bariatric surgery for pennsylvania residents, 1995 to 2004
  Omalu BI, Ives DG, Buhari AM, Lindner JL, Schauer PR, Wecht CH, Kuller LH, American Diabetes Association, 66th scientific session, Washington, DC, 1/9./2006
• A comparison of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in two national football league players.
  Omalu BI, Lindner JL, Hamilton RL, Minster RL, Kamboh MI, Abdulrezak AM, DeKosky ST., American Association of Neuropathologists, 26th International Congress of Neuropathology, San Francisco, California., 1/10/2006
• Death rates and causes of death following bariatric surgery for Pennsylvania residents, 1995 to 2004
  Lindner JL, Omalu BI, Ives DG, Buhari AM, Lindner JL, Schauer PR, Wecht CH, Kuller LH, National meeting of the National Association of Medical Examiners, San Antonio, Texas, 1/13/2006
• The emerging role of forensic pathologists in identifying cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in NFL players
  Omalu BI, Annual meeting of the National Association of Medical Examiners, Savannah, Georgia, 1/12/2006
• The role of environmental factors in the causation of sudden death in infants: two cases of sudden unexpected death in two unrelated infants who were cared for by the ...
  Lindner JL, Omalu BI., Annual meeting of the National Association of Medical Examiners, Savannah, Georgia, 1/12/2006
• Forecasting as an operations management tool in a medical examiner’s office
  Lindner JL, Omalu BI, Annual meeting of the National Association of Medical Examiners, Savannah, Georgia, 1/12/2006
• Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in an exhumed decomposed brain after twenty months of burial in a deep grave
  Omalu BI, American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP) 2004 Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, 1/24/2004
• Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: My Understanding of What We Can do Moving Forward
  Omalu B, 13th Annual Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics, Miami, Florida, 1/9./2016
• CTE and FDDNP: Blast and Non-Blast Variants.
  Omalu B, 13th Annual Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics, Miami, Florida, 1/9./2016
• Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Conformational Intelligence and the Law.
  Omalu B, Association of Defense Trial Attorneys, 2017 Annual Meeting, Monterey, California, 1/19/2017
• Chronic traumatic encephalopathy and the National Football League
  Omalu BI, National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) 2004 Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, 1/10/2004
• Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in an exhumed decomposed brain after twenty months of burial in a deep grave
  Omalu BI, National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) 2004 Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, 1/10/2004
• Chronic traumatic encephalopathy and the National Football League
  Omalu BI, American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP) 2004 Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, 1/24/2004
• Sudden and Unexpected Death Following Bariatric Surgery for Morbid Obesity
  Luckasevic TM, Omalu BI, United States and Canadian Association of Pathology 2004 Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1/6./2004
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Lectures

• Football Induced Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy 
  Waterfront, Homestead, Pittsburgh - 1/1/2006
• My professional experience as a Forensic Pathologist 
  The Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Sciences, School of Law, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, P - 1/1/2002
• The medico-legal autopsy 
  University of Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Inns of Court, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 1/1/2002
• The mechanisms of trauma in motor vehicular accidents 
  Department of Surgery, The Mercy Hospital System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 1/1/2000
• Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and PTSD 
  Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California - 1/13/2012
• Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Sports 
  Washington, DC - 1/10/2010
• Becoming a Forensic Pathologist: My Experience and Perspective 
  School of Medicine, University of California, Davis - 1/22/2010
• Employee Personal Motivation Lecture 
  San Joaquin County, Administration Building - 1/16/2011
• Motivational Lecture and Forensics: the value and importance of education 
  1/29/2011
• Motivational Lecture to One Hope School 
  1/24/2011
• Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in American Athletes 
  University of California, San Francisco, Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center - 1/11/2011
• Long Term Effects of Repeated Impacts to the Head in American Athletes 
  Long Beach, California - 1/27/2011
• Taupathy and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy 
  Department of Pathology, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, California - 1/18/2011
• Youth Leadership for Change 
  1/26/2012
• Motivational Lecture and Forensics: Becoming What You Want to Become 
  District Attorney’s Office - 1/27/2012
• Pharm Parties 
  Stockton, California - 1/14/2010
• Sociology of Health & Illness 
  Department of Sociology, University of Pacific, Stockton Campus, Stockton, California - 1/15/2012
• Pathophysiology of Traumatic Brain Injury 
  Manteca Unified School District, School Nurses. Manteca, California - 1/19/2012
• History, Definition and Clinicopathologic Features of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy [CTE]. 
  Sports Concussion Institute, Los Angeles, California - 1/22/2012
• CTE: A Historical Perspective- Pathological Overview and Taupathy. 
  The University of Chicago, Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Gle - 1/25/2013
• Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: Current Understanding of Clinicopathologic Features; A Forensic Perspective. 
  San Diego Convention Center, San Diego - 1/21/2013
• Emerging In-Vivo Diagnosis of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. 
  Department of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Davis - 1/2./2013
• The Forensic Pathology of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Professional American Athletes 
  Wheeling, West Virginia - 1/17/2008
• What a Pathologist can Learn from Hollywood: Dr. Omalu’s Experience 
  Department of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UC-Davis - 1/1./2016
• My professional life as a forensic pathologist and neuropathologist 
  Saint Benedict the Moor Catholic School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 1/14/2004
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Other

• Truth Doesn’t Have a Side 
  Publishers Weekly
  https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-310-35196-2?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=92aa48e849-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-92aa48e849-305322873
  1/1/2017
• Truth and Consequences 
  Hillary Louise Johnson, Sactown Magazine
  1/1/2016
• Thank you Dr. Omalu 
  Roger Braden, Attorney at Law Magazine, Kentucky Edition
  1/1/2016
• Gridiron Dementia 
  Nicholas Ducassi, Carnegie Mellon Today
  1/1/2015
• Greater Good 
  Health Heroes- Scientist
  1/1/2015
• EST/Sloan presents Headstrong, by Patrick Link; directed by William Carden 
  The Ensemble Studio Theatre
  New York City, New York - 1/1/2012
• Brain Trauma Expert Bennet Omalu Teaches Forensic Neuropathology 
  Faculty Newsletter, UC Davis Health System, Faculty Development Office
  1/1/2011
• Bombs' hidden impact: The brain war. Wartime explosions may be creating an epidemic of brain damage — and a major challenge for scientists 
  Sharon Weinberger, Nature
  1/1/2011
• Blowing the whistle on the NFL: a shocking look at what the modern game is doing to players’ brains 
  Jeanne Marie Laskas, GQ Magazine
  1/1/2009
• Football’s Concussion Crisis 
  Christopher Nowinski, Head Games
  1/1/2007
• Announcing Beta-Amyloid Precursor Protein Immunohistochemistry for the Forensic Pathology Practice. 
  Bennet I. Omalu, MD, MPH
  1/1/2004
• A 49-year-old white woman found dead in her bed. 
  Ionescu DN, Janssen JK, Omalu BI., Clinical pathology case of the month, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Forensic To
  http://path.upmc.edu/casemonth/cp-casemonth.html
  1/1/2004
• A forensic perspective of suicide. 
  Omalu B, Coroner’s Gazette, Allegheny County Coroner’s Office
  1/1/2000
• US football players face head injury time bomb. 
  Ed Pilkington, The Sydney Morning Herald
  Australia - 1/10/2010
• Don’t Let Kids Play Football 
  New York Times Op-Ed Contribution
  1/7./2015
• Television Documentary: Head Games. The Fifth Estate 
  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC-TV
  1/19/2008
• A late hit for pro football players: emerging research suggests that hard knocks on the field may cause delayed brain damage in retired athletes 
  Greg Miller, Science Journal
  1/7./2009
• Driven Mad? What long-term brain injuries can football players sustain? 
  Martin Bashir and Roxanna Sherwood, ABC Television, Nightline
  1/16/2009
• S.J. medical examiner details gruesome scene 
  Scott Smitt, The Stockton Record
  1/20/2009
• Doctors: Wrestler had brain damage 
  Greg Garber
  ESPN.COM
  1/9./2009
• Ticking timebomb in US colleges as American football head injuries linked to dementia: As NFL bows to pressure and changes its rules, a Congressional hearing has opene... 
  Ed Pilkington, Guardian Newspaper
  United Kingdom - 1/4./2010
• Television Documentary: A fight to the death. Concussions in Sports. 
  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Newsworld
  1/6./2008
• Doctors study link between combat and brain disease. 
  Seth Robbins, Stars and Stripes
  1/23/2010
• Sacrament of marriage protective factor against suicide, Commentary 
  Dr. Bennet Omalu, Pittsburgh Catholic Newspaper
  1/20/2004
• Coming to a head: When the NFL reversed field on concussions, it spawned a medical gold rush that pits scientist against scientist in a quest for cures, treatments and... 
  Peter Keating, ESPN The Magazine
  1/10/2011
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