Welcome to the Website for the ThinkFirst Southern California Chapter Each year an estimated 500,000 persons in the United States sustain a brain or spinal cord injury. In fact, injury is the leading cause of death among children and teens. The ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention Foundation, formally known as the National Head and Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Program, was implemented nationally in 1986. The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) initiated the development of the national program due to their frustration at not being able to cure or "fix" brain and spinal cord injuries. These groups share the belief that prevention is the only cure, and that surgeons have a duty to help prevent these traumatic injuries. Srinath Samudrala, MD serves as the sponsoring surgeon for the ThinkFirst Chapter of Southern California and is passionate about injury prevention. Brenda Ives, Executive Director strives to educate over 5,000 children per year on the impacts of brain and spinal cord injuries as well as how to prevent them by using their mind to protect their body. ThinkFirst is funded through grants and your generous donations and support. Please let us know if you and/or your organization is willing to make a donation. On behalf of all the lives that we will impact, we thank you and look forward to participating with you in this worthwhile cause. Tim Tebow speaking at the 2011 ThinkFirst Conference on Injury Prevention in Denver, Colorado ThinkFirst of Southern California |
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