Dr. Kevin Wang is the Director of the Program for Neurotrauma, Neuroproteomics & Biomarkers Research and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, USA. He is also Health Research Neuroscientist and Merit Award Principal Investigator at the Brain Rehabilitation Research Center at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center (Gainesville, FL). Dr. Wang is a neurotrauma researcher since the late 1990's. He has served as President and Council Member of the National Neurotrauma society, Board Member, Board of Governors of the International Brain Injury Association and Presidium Member of the Academy for Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology. His research focus is translational research for traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, post-traumatic epilepsy, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Two acute TBI blood-based protein biomarkers he co-discovered at University of Florida have now been clinically validated.In 2018, these two TBI biomarkersreceived FDA approval as the first-in class in vitro diagnostic tests for detecting cranial CT abnormality in TB patients.

[T]his is an excellent textbook for those with an academic interest in TBI, particularly the research and medical aspects. It provides a unique collection of topics providing a wide overview of research theme across the whole spectrum of TBI and spinal cord injury ... We strongly recommend it.

• I SEVERE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY1 History, Overview and Human Anatomical Pathology of Traumatic Brain InjuryKentaro Shimoda, Shoji Yokobori, and Ross Bullock 2 Severe TBI in Military - Medical and Surgical InterventionsGeoff Ling 3 Pediatric Severe Traumatic Brain Injury ManagementKendra Woods and Michael Bell 4 Treatment of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in the Scandinavian Countries, with Special Emphasis on the Lund ConceptMagnus Olivecrona 5 Abusive Head TraumaRachel Berger 6 Traumatic Cerebral Vascular InjuryRamon Diaz-Arrastia 7 Disorders of Consciousness: Common Findings in Brain InjuryCalixto Machado II MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY AND CONCUSSIONS 8 The TRACK-TBI Approach: Redefining Severity and Outcome AssessmentsJohn Yue, Geoff Manley 9 Acute Assessment of Mild Traumatic Brain InjuryLinda Papa 10 Current Knowledge of Blast Traumatic Brain Injury MechanismsElizabeth Fievisohn and Pamela VandeVord 11 Adult and Pediatric Mild and Moderate Head Injury Management in Scandinavian CountriesJohan Undén 12 Challenges in Neurotrauma Management in India and Rapidly Growing Developing CountriesVD Sinha, GK Prusty 13 Chronic TBI in Veterans and Service Members: Clinical Assessment, Interventions, and Differentiation from PTSDHarvey Levin 14 Chemosensory Impairment after TBINathan Zasler 15 Return to Play, School or Work after ConcussionCharles H. Tator 16 The Link Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurodegenerative DiseasesR. Rubenstein III NEUROIMAGING AND BIOMARKER ASSESSMENTS IN TBI17 Neuroimaging and Its Application in the Diagnosis for Early Prognostication of TBILijun Ba 18 The Potential of Brain-Specific Blood Biomarkers for TBI Patient Management, Diagnosis and Clinical ResearchGlushakova and Ronald L. Hayes 19 The Role of Inflammation in Traumatic Brain InjuryCristina Morganti-Kossmann 20 Glutamate Receptor Peptides in Acute NeurotraumaSvetlana Dambinova and Galina Izykenova 21 Serum Markers of Subclinical Brain Damage in Low Grade Chronic Concussion and Asymptomatic Cerebral Small Vessel DiseaseSergio González-García 22 MicroRNA Biomarkers in Traumatic Brain InjuryManish Bhomia IV TRANSLATIONAL ANIMAL STUDIES OF TBI 23 Translational Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Research: Bridging the Gap Between Models and Clinical UncertaintyEugene Park and Andrew Baker 24 Military-relevant Rodent Models of Blast-induced Traumatic Brain InjuriesIbolja Cernak 25 Pediatric TBI Models: Lessons LearnedRamesh Raghupathi 26 Proteomics-based Strategies to Define Brain Tissue Biomarkers of Closed Head, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Translational Rodent ModelsAngela Boutte and D. Shear V CURRENT AND FUTURE TREATMENTS OF TBI 27 Neuroprotection in TBIDafin Muresanu 28 Bioengineering in Brain Trauma ResearchMichelle LaPlaca 29 Neuroregenerative Medicine in TBIJinhui Chen 30 Stem Cell Studies in Traumatic Brain InjurySun Dong VI SPINAL CORD INJURY 31 Spinal Cord Injury: Intensive Care Unit Neurointensive Care and Surgical InterventionMichael Y. Wang 32 Animal Models of Spinal Cord InjuryCandace Floyd 33 Why Do We Not Have a Drug to Treat Acute Spinal Cord Injury?James Geddes 34 Recent Development of Regenerative Strategies to Treat Spinal Cord InjuriesRiyi Shi 35 Stem Cell Therapy for Spinal Cord InjuryPing Wu VII COMMON THEMES BEETWEEN TRAUMATIC BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD INJURY 36 Therapeutic Hypothermia and Targeted Temperature Management in the Treatment of Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord InjuryDalton Dietrich 37 Autoimmunity Responses in Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord InjuryZhihui Yang and F. Kobeissy, K. Wang