BENNET Ifeakandu Omalu, born September 30, 1968, is a Nigerian-American physician, forensic pathologist and neuropathologist who was the first to discover and publish findings on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, CTE, in American football players while working at the Allegheny County coroner’s office in Pittsburgh.
He later became the chief medical examiner for San Joaquin County, California, and is a professor at the University of California, Davis, Department of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
His notable work is “Truth Doesn’t Have a Side: My Alarming Discovery about the Danger of Contact Sports”.
He is from Nnokwa in Idemili South, Anambra State.
