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Dr. Julian Bailes is a founding member of the Brain Injury Research Institute and professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at West Virginia University School of Medicine. An expert in the field of neurosurgey and the long and short-term impact of brain injury on cognitive function, he is the former team physician of the Pittsburgh Steelers and has been a team physician in either the NFL or NCAA division I for more than two decades.

Dr. Bailes is medical director of the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes, based at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Bailes received his medical degree from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans and completed his neurosurgical residency at Northwestern University Medical Center in Chicago, and fellowship at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix.