The program in Brain Health and Human Performance (BHHP) is an exciting new venture within the Center for Sports Medicine, Health and Human Performance (CSMHHP) at the Cole Field House. The goals of the program are to promote inter-campus collaborations, enhance existing resources, increase faculty expertise and build interdisciplinary partnerships in targeted areas related to health promotion, human performance, injury prevention and care, and sports medicine. With a primary research focus on Nervous System Injury and Neuroscience, the BHHP will attract internationally recognized scholars in the areas of brain injury/concussion, cognitive neuropsychology, brain plasticity/rehabilitation, sports medicine, and exercise science/applied physiology. BHHP investigators will be supported by and train undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars- and will also form teams with complementary medical and scientific expertise that will serve to accelerate targeted research and increase competitiveness for federally funded research grants.
BHHP research will focus on three themes that expand upon existing strengths of UMCP/UMB:
BHHP is supported by the MPowering the State initiative. Support provided by MPower allows us to provide competitive seed awards to investigators working on joint projects across the UMB and UMCP campuses. Descriptions of current Nervous System Injury and Neuroscience Seed Grants Seed Awards here.
The newly constructed research and clinical space within the Cole Field House will serve as the hub and for clinical and translational research. Facilities will also include a multi-modal imaging facility for dynamic studies in brain health, performance and injury recovery. The diverse elements of the component research, education, and service programs will be distributed across multiple sites on the two campuses-with the expansion of Cole Field House serving as the headquarters for planning, coordination as execution of research.