Keynote Talk on Injury Biomechanics

I was pleased to have the opportunity to give a keynote talk at the NFL's Helmet Challenge Symposium this month. The goal of the Helmet Challenge is to make a step-change improvement in the performance of football helmets. The symposium was attended by a wide range of experts from advanced manufacturing and materials science, as well as injury biomechanics. My talk focused on lessons from the automotive industry, which has seen dramatic improvements in crash safety through systematic application of science and engineering. I emphasized the critical role of computational modeling that has enabled the rapid advancements in crash safety we've seen in recent years.