Concussion specialist

David O. Okonkwo MD, PhD

📍 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · ✓ Listing verified 2026-07-11

About

Based in Pittsburgh and directed by neurosurgeon David Okonkwo, this University of Pittsburgh and UPMC center focuses on traumatic brain injury spanning mild concussion through severe injury. Its clinicians run federally and industry-funded clinical trials studying new therapies, brain monitoring, advanced imaging, and biomarkers, and it houses a national TBI biospecimen repository supporting the multicenter TRACK-TBI study.

Services

Rehabilitation/Brain Injury

Clinical focus areas

mTBIConcussionBrain InjurySports Concussion

Details

Provider typePhysician - Sports Medicine
SpecialtyNeurosurgery
PracticeUPMC Neurotrauma / Brain Trauma Research Center
Health systemUPMC
RoleDirector of Neurotrauma, UPMC; Clinical Director, Brain Trauma Research Center; Director, Neurotrauma Clinical Trials Center
ServesAdult

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