browne, gary

Prof Gary Browne

Clinical director, Kids Concussion Service; Staff specialist, Children’s Hospital Institute of Sports Medicine, The Children’s Hospital; Westmead, NSW
Gary Browne is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Chair of the Discipline of Emergency Medicine at the University of Sydney. He has been in clinical practice in acute and paediatric care for 40 years. As Medical Director of the Kids Concussion Service since 2006 and the head of the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury research laboratory at the Children’s Hospital Westmead, he runs a research-based clinical service. Professor Browne’s current research is focused on the mechanisms, the place of diagnostic biomarkers and new treatments for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury/ concussion in children and adolescents. He is author and editor of over 100 peer-reviewed papers and 20 textbooks on paediatric emergency and sports and exercise medicine.

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