Christopher Giza

Dr. Christopher Giza is director of the UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT Program and an expert on sports-related concussions, developmental brain injuries and their pathophysiology. A professor of pediatric neurology and neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Mattel Children’s Hospital, Giza’s research interests include neuroplasticity (the brain’s ability to adapt and rewire itself), susceptibility to an additional concussion, recovery from trauma, post-traumatic epilepsy and brain development.

Giza is a member of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center and a UCLA principal investigator in a National Collegiate Athletic Association-Department of Defense consortium that’s using impact sensors and advanced brain-imaging to identify possible biomarkers related to concussion susceptibility and recovery.