Bennet Omalu

Bennet Omalu: Biography in Details

Who is Bennet Omalu?

Bennet Omalu is a Nigerian-American physician, forensic pathologist, and neuropathologist. Bennet Omalu was the first person to discover Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) while working at Allegheny County. He is also a professor at the University of California and his department was Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

Bennet Omalu: Age, Parents, Siblings, Family, Ethnicity, Nationality

Omalu was born to Nigerian parents in September 1968 in Nnokwa, Nigeria. His nationality is Nigerian and Neutralized American and his ethnicity is African.

He was born during the Nigerian Civil War and their parents moved to a small village in southeastern Nigeria. His mother was a seamstress and his father, John Donatus Amaechi Omalu was a civil mining engineer. His father was the source of inspiration for him and was intelligent from a very early age.

In which school did Bennet Omalu attend?

Bennet Omalu started attending primary school at the age of three. He attended  Federal Government College Enugu for secondary school and also attended the University of Nigeria, Nsukka at the age of 16 and graduated from there with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1990.

Bennet Omalu: Professional Life, Career

After graduation, Omalu began searching for scholarships in the U.S and moved to Washington in 1994. There he started attending a training program. After holding eight advanced degrees, he started working as a forensic pathologist. He has made respectable positions in the United States as a researcher and neuropathologist.

Bennet Omalu’s research and findings on CTE (Chronic traumatic encephalopathy )

After conducting tissue analysis of American footballer, Mike Webster who died because of depression, drug abuse, and suicide attempt, Omalu suspected that Mike suffered from dementia pugilistica and published his findings in the journal Neurosurgery in 2005 in a paper titled “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a National Football League Player.

Later, members of the NFL’s Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee retracted it. Afterward, he published for the second time his finding of CTE evidence in the brain of  Terry Long, an NFL player. He also found CTE evidence on other retired NFL players and Military veterans too, but the NFL members didn’t acknowledge Omlau’s findings.

After several years a book named Concussion was released relating Omalu’s findings and later on a film of the same name was made where Omalu’s character was portrayed by Will Smith.

Bennet Omalu: Net Worth, Income, Salary

Rumors according to some sources, his annual salary is around $285,000, and has a net worth of $710 Million as of 2022. However, Bennet Omalu has not revealed his income to the media, hence his salary and net worth are unknown.

Is Bennet Omalu involved in any rumors and controversies?

There are different controversies regarding Omalu’s findings. A film named Cbennoncussion which was based on Bennet Omalu’s findings has been criticized for not being truthful.

Also, Omalu said that he would bet his medical license that O.J Simpson, a popular NFL player has CTE which was a little controversial.

Body Measurements: Height, Weight, Body Size

Moving towards his body measurements, His hair color is black and his eyes color is also black. Besides this,  his height is 1.73 m tall and his weight is 80 kg, there is no information about shoe size and dress size.

Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

Bennet Omalu is active on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. He has around 4.6k followers on Facebook. He has more than 14.9 k followers on Twitter and 13.6 k followers on Instagram.

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