Tagliabue is overseeing the latest round of player appeals in Washington. Smith and fellow player Jonathan Vilma, who were suspended said they plan to attend. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File).The CSTE was created in 2008 as a collaborative venture between Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the nonprofit Sports Legacy Institute (SLI). The mission of the CSTE is to conduct stateoftheart research of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, including its neuropathology and pathogenesis, the clinical presentation and course, methods of diagnosis and early detection, the genetics and other risk factors for CTE, and ways of preventing and treating this cause of dementia. The CSTE is codirected by Cantu, Ann McKee, MD, Robert Stern, PhD and Chris Nowinski..

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