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DR CHRISTINA L MASTER

Dr. Master is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Associate Program Director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine fellowship at CHOP with almost three decades of experience in clinical pediatrics.  

Dr. Master is board-certified in pediatrics, sports medicine, and brain injury medicine and treats over a eight hundred children with concussion annually in her outpatient practice. She is co-founding director of Minds Matter, the concussion program for children at CHOP that provides clinical care, community outreach and conducts research in youth concussion. Her particular research emphasis has been describing the epidemiology of pediatric concussion and identifying objective biomarkers for visual deficits following concussion as well as targeting those deficits for intervention for those with prolonged symptoms in order to improve their outcomes.