The latest news from our team, partners, and supporters.
TeachAids is proud to announce that USA Baseball Team Physician Dr. Josh Bloom is joining the TeachAids team as a Medical Advisor! Dr. Bloom is an integral part of the USA Baseball Medical/Safety Advisory Committee, North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) Sports Medicine Advisory Committee, and North Carolina Brain Injury Advisory Council. Growing up…
State of the epidemic Gains have been made against the HIV epidemic but these are becoming progressively smaller. There has been a modest 9% decline in the annual number of new HIV infections in Asia and the Pacific since 2010, and only 13% in Western and Central Africa during the same period. (UNAIDS Data 2019)….
TeachAids is proud to congratulate one of our incredible advisors, Chelsea Barabas, on being published in the New York Times. Her collaborative piece, The Problems With Risk Assessment Tools, highlights the inaccuracies of crime prediction algorithms and their effects on incarceration in the United States. “…They give judges recommendations that make future violence seem more…
Earlier this month, our CrashCourse concussion education videos were shown as a component of the Sports and Traumatic Brain Injury conference in Washington. Hosted by the Northwest Brain Injury Symposium, the panel lecture took place at the Spokane Public Library on July 9, 2019. It is TeachAids’ hope that the 72 symposium attendees gained a…
Nneka Ogwumike, TeachAids ambassador and Forward for the Los Angeles Sparks, was selected for her sixth career appearance at the WNBA All-Star game. In high school, Ogwumike was named a WBCA All-American and was named MVP in the 2008 WBCA High School All-America Game. She earned her way to play for Stanford, where she and…
As Director of the Ohio Valley Center for Brain Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation at Ohio State University, and head of the Ohio Brain Injury Program, the state of Ohio’s designated lead agency for brain injury policy and planning, Dr. John Corrigan aims to improve the lives of people living with the effects of traumatic brain…
Dr. George Rutherford is the Salvatore Pablo Lucia Professor of Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine, Pediatrics and History, and the Director of the Prevention Medicine and Public Health Group in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco. Also a Professor of Pediatrics and Family and Community Medicine at…
A formal Cardinal student-athlete from 2005-2008 and assistant coach from 2010-2015, Tabitha Yim is no stranger to Stanford. She spent two years away from Stanford to coach the University of Arizona program and now is back at The Farm, leading our women’s team to championships on and off the mat. As an Assistant Coach at…
Photo Credit: Getty Images North America Since the beginning of his career in Bloomingdale’s executive training program in New York, John Goodman has accumulated over three decades of experience in the retail field. TeachAids is grateful to welcome Goodman on board as an advisor for TeachAids’ CrashCourse. Goodman first worked for four years as a…
Today, TeachAids is excited to announce a partnership with USA Football, the sport’s national governing body and a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee. The organizations will work together to advance smarter play across America’s favorite sport through TeachAids’ CrashCourse curriculum. USA Football will make CrashCourse available on usafootball.com at no cost for America’s football…
Dr. Gary Steinberg is the Chair of Neurosurgery at Stanford School of Medicine, Director of the Stanford Moyamoya Center, and the founder and co-director of the Stanford Stroke Center. With over three decades of experience practicing neurosurgery at Stanford, Dr. Steinberg has developed expertise in treating brain aneurysms, Moyamoya disease, brain and spinal arteriovenous malformations,…
TeachAids would like to congratulate one of our very own advisors, Bernard Muir, on another incredibly successfully year directing Stanford Athletics. On June 28th, it was announced that Stanford Athletics won the 2019 Director’s Cup for their success across 19 sports, with six national championships. This achievement marks the 25th consecutive year that Stanford has…
