Michael Popovich, MD

Dr. Popovich is a Sports Neurology fellowship-trained Neurologist who provides clinical concussion care in the University of Michigan NeuroSport clinic and is a team physician for Eastern Michigan University Athletics. Dr. Popovich has a number of research interests focused on treatment and recovery after traumatic brain injury. He has developed a patient database for the Sports Neurology clinic which tracks the pathogenesis and recovery after a concussion to evaluate clinically useful biomarkers of recovery and the roles of exercise in recovery.

Dr. Frederick Korley, Professor of Emergency Medicine, completed his medical school education and residency training in emergency medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed a doctoral degree in clinical investigation at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Korley’s research is focused on improving outcomes in traumatic brain injury by identifying and validating blood-based biomarkers for diagnosing traumatic brain injury and monitoring individual patient response to promising therapies. He is an inventor on a patent for a panel of novel traumatic brain injury biomarkers.