Friday, December 5, 2025 | 9:00 – 10:00 AM, PDT | Zoom
Featuring Dr. Virtaj Sing, MD | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Pain Medicine
Dr. Virtaj Singh, MD, will lecture on sports concussion assessment and return to play, drawing upon his extensive experience as an attending physician at Puget Sound Spine and Sports Medicine and as medical director for the Seattle Seawolves professional rugby team. In this lecture, Dr. Singh will review current best practices for evaluating and managing concussions in athletes, from initial on-field assessment through recovery and safe return to play. He will discuss evidence-based approaches to clinical evaluation, including the use of graded activity protocols tailored to individual recovery trajectories. The lecture will also highlight common pitfalls in concussion management, emerging research on post-concussion syndromes, and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration among physicians, trainers, and rehabilitation specialists to optimize both safety and performance outcomes.
About NEST
The Neurotrauma Evidence Synthesis Training (NEST) is a traumatic brain injury (TBI)-focused, mentored, evidence-synthesis training program which is currently training and mentoring a cohort of trainees to conduct evidence-synthesis projects from inception to publication including systematic reviews, meta-analyses, scoping reviews, and umbrella reviews. NEST is supported by the Endocrine & Brain Injury Research Alliance, Helfgott Research Institute and the RAND REACH Center, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative, under award number U24AT012549. The content is solely the responsibility of the lecturers and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.