Coffee With Jon and Dr. Leanne Young

From the battlefield to brain health. Healthcare Technology innovation comes from many different sources. Learn how lessons treating wounded soldiers led one engineer to move from developing equipment to protect the brain to leading a team dedicated to making the brain healthy.

After more than 20 years in engineering, Leanne Young joined the Center for BrainHealth to lead its Brain Performance Institute. Prior to joining the Brain Performance Institute, Leanne ran a division of Applied Research Associates, as a defense contractor, and helped establish human vulnerability as a core business area for that company.

She worked with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to lead the first clinical trials of blast-induced brain injuries and, working with the Office of Naval Research, she led the development of a computer model for planning the medical response to a blast attack on a ship.