Sports Safety Summit Attracting National Attention as Concussion TV Features Live Webcast of Major Athletic Trainers Event

Athletic Trainers, Physicians, Experts, Congressman Bill Pascrell and others to be Featured in National Webcast of Athletic Trainers' Society of New Jersey's 3rd Annual Sports Safety Summit for Parents, Coaches and Athletes, Live from New Brunswick, N.J. August 1, 2012, 7:40 AM ET at Internet TV Channel Concussion TV, www.ConcussionTV.com


Washington, D.C., July 31, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TV Worldwide, (www.tvworldwide.com), a pioneering web-based global TV network since 1999, announced that it had been selected by Sports Pro Community Network (SPCN, www.SPCN.com) to webcast the Athletic Trainers' Society of New Jersey's 3rd Annual Sports Safety Summit, the second in a series of free live national TV webcasts featuring distinguished experts in the field of Concussion and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 7:40 AM ET, live from New Brunswick, N.J.

The event is being produced on SPCN's recently-launched Internet TV channel, Concussion TV, (www.ConcussionTV.com) and will also highlight other sports safety issues and presentations. The live webcast is sponsored by the National Athletic Trainers' Association, District 2, Concussion Health, Natus, Impakt Protective's Shockbox impact alert sensors, and the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey at the RSM Psychology Center, LLC.

The webcast will feature prominent experts, experienced in the field of sports safety science with practical applications for physicians and health care providers. The webcast will also highlight pre-recorded interviews with Congressman Bill Pascrell of New Jersey, Robin Harris, Executive Director of the Council of Ivy league Presidents, andformer NFL quarterback Ron "Jaws" Jaworski with Dr. Rosemarie Scolaro Moser, Director of the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, discussing concussion in football and her new book "Ahead of the Game".

Featured speakers at press time include:

Christine Donnelly, MD
Pediatric Cardiology
Atlantic Health Systems
Morristown, NJ                          

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New York Presbyterian Hospital
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Charles J. Gatt, MD
University Orthopaedic Associates,
Somerset, NJ
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Associate Professor UMDNJ-RWJ
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Michael H. Goodman, MD, MMM, FAAP
Chairman & Chief, Department of Pediatrics
Cooper University Hospital
Camden, NJ
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James Goydos, MD
Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School
Director, Melanoma/Sarcoma Soft Tissue Oncology Program
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Jeffrey Kutcher, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Neurology
University of Michigan Health
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 Jason P. Mihalik, PhD, CAT (C), ATC
Assistant Professor, Department of Exercise and Sport Science
Co-Director, Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
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Ronald G. Nahass, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School
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Allergy, Immunology and Infectious Disease, ID Associates
Hillsboro NJ
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Francis G. O'Connor, MD, MPH.
Associate Professor, Uniformed Services University
Medical Director for the Consortium on Health and Military Performance
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Margot Putukian, MD
Head Team Physician
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
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"The Sports Pro Community Network is committed to addressing issues of critical, current importance to parents, athletes and the coaching community," stated Lida Peterson, spokesman for SPCN. "Concussions/TBI is a white hot issue at every level of athletics and we are excited about the opportunity to working with the Athletic Trainers' Society of New Jersey to deploy the capabilities of our new SPCN TV channel, Concussion TV and work with TV Worldwide to create a robust forum for discussion during this second webcast in the series."

"We're pleased to have again been selected to deploy our TV Worldwide Internet TV Network to support the second webcast in this important SPCN TV series on Concussion TV and we salute the Athletic Trainers' Society of New Jersey and its President, Eric Nussbaum for partnering with our team," stated Dave Gardy, Chairman and CEO of TV Worldwide. "As an active youth coach, I am acutely aware of the growing level of interest among parents and coaches in learning more about youth concussions and TBI. We've had a significant spike in registration traffic at this second webcast event site on Concussion TV and we're provisioning our servers accordingly, to meet the anticipated live webcast demand. A special thanks to the sponsors who stepped up to support this webcast."

This free live webcast will begin at 7:40 AM ET, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at www.ConcussionTV.com and will be archived for a period of one year of on-demand viewing. About Concussion TV on the Sports Pro Community Network

Concussion TV is an Internet TV Channel on the SPCN TV network committed to bringing athletes, parents, coaches, athletic trainers, personal trainers, medical and sports business professionals the latest resources and information on Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).


About Sports Pro Community Network

SPCN is a media services company that provides end-to-end event management and communication and outreach services to a variety of clients with a focus on sports, both professional and amateur.

Our mission is to provide services to our clients in the most efficient, accessible, and cost-effective fashion possible.

And through our core management and technical capabilities, we can ensure that important events, large and small, are imaginatively conceived, professionally organized, and implemented with maximum precision.

In addition, through our award-winning knowledge management and communications capabilities, we can guarantee that events are enjoyed by participants and observers alike, as well as captured and shared with wider online audiences.

SPCN's involvement assures that an event is economically managed and achieves maximum coverage and visibility for clients and their targeted market.

About the Athletic Trainers' Society of New Jersey (ATSNJ)

The Athletic Trainers' Society (ATSNJ) consists of Certified Athletic Trainers, Athletic Training Students, Physicians and other allied health care professionals living or employed in the State of New Jersey. Working together, our goal is to the advancement and improvement of the athletic training profession in the State. The ATSNJ also continually strives to ensure that athletes receive the best health care possible.

The Athletic Trainers' Society of New Jersey is:

  • ATSNJ, Inc.
  • Composed primarily of members certified by the National Athletic Trainers Association Board of Cerfication &/or Licensed by the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners.
  • Dedicated to the advancement, and improvement of the Athletic Training profession in the state of New Jersey.
  • Continually striving to ensure that the student-athlete receives the best possible health care.

The Goals of the ATSNJ:

  • Educate the general public as to the role and function of an Athletic Trainer.
  • Provide sports care information to related health care organizations and other groups.
  • Encourage students to enter the Athletic Training profession by offering information and scholarships.
  • Provide speakers bureau.
  • Educate athletes of their right to proper health care.

If you have any questions about athletic training in the state of New Jersey, please feel free to contact anyone on the Executive Council.

About TV Worldwide

Founded in 1999, TV Worldwide (www.tvworldwide.com) developed the first Internet TV network of community-based Internet TV channels, primarily targeting niche professional communities ranging from the Maritime industry to the Digital Media sector. Known by many in the industry as "Intelligent Internet TV," Fortune 500 companies, 35 government agencies, and numerous International associations, including the National Association of Broadcasters, utilize TV Worldwide's live and archived state-of-the art video streaming content applications and Internet TV channels. In recognition of the company's unique achievements in new media, TV Worldwide was selected by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) to webcast past Daytime Emmy Awards and the Emmy awards for Technology and Engineering. CEO Dave Gardy has been honored by Streaming Media Magazine in 2008 as one of the 25 Most Influential People in Streaming Media. Mr. Gardy has served as the President of the International Webcasting Association (IWA).

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