Dr. Ann McKee remembers the first time she saw a case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. She’d been staring down at the brain of deceased boxer Paul Pender, and the damage she saw had caught her off guard. She set out to find more cases of it, but there weren’t many boxers who were donating their brains. Dr. McKee is a board-certified neuropathologist and neurologist, studying degenerative brain diseases.
She is the director of the Boston University Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center and neuropathology for Veteran Affairs Boston
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