Steiger, Bill. “Meet Bennet Omalu, MD: The Physician Leader Whose Research Inspired The Movie Concussion.” Physician Leadership Journal 3, no. 2 (March and April 2016): 8-10.

This article explains the story of Bennet Omalu, a Nigerian pathologist who discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Mr. Omalu discovered this disease in 2002 when he autopsied Mike Webster; a former NFL center who died shortly after his NFL career. Initially, Mr. Omalu found nothing out of the ordinary when studying Mr. Webster’s brain. However, he tirelessly continued to analyze it and eventually came across unusual proteins. With help from other pathologists, Mr. Omalu named this disease and then published an article titled “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a National Football League player.” Originally this article did not get much publicity, but eventually the interest for it grew and it became controversial. Critics of the paper threatened Mr. Omalu and attempted to force him to take it down. The article stayed and the concern for NFL players health increased. Since this incident, Mr. Omalu has found the disease in other NFL players who also passed away shortly after their playing careers. This discovery is threatening to the NFL because it creates controversy over whether the sport is safe to play or not. A research question that rises from this article is: Will the revolutionary discovery of CTE pose a threat to the NFL’s future?

Expert knowledge was a type of data used to report findings in this article. Mr. Omalu is a certified doctor and he used his knowledge to conclude his research. Acts, behavior, or events is another data type because Mr. Omalu physically researched and experimented on his own. Ethnography is a data collection method used. The article describes Mr. Omalu’s findings, which were told to the reporter.