Dr. Ayub Khan Ommaya, former Chief of Neurosurgery at NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, died on July 10, 2008, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Ommaya developed the centripetal theory of TBI, which allowed for scientific understanding and modeling of the role of forces and their contribution to injury and outcome in the brain. While serving as chief medical advisor to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, he commissioned an Institute of Medicine report, Injury in America, which led to creation of the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
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