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Samantha McBirney

Samantha McBirney is a biomedical engineer who has studied traumatic brain injury from blunt impact and blast overpressure for 15 years at RAND, UC Berkeley, and the University of Southern California. 
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When will the Pentagon listen on blast injuries?

Troops buffeted by explosions are too often treated simply for mental health—not physical damage to the brain.

  • Samantha McBirney and Emily Hoch