Traumatic Brain Injury in the Military: The Numbers and the Knowledge to Help

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, in a memorandum dated 26 June 2008, requested: "the development of a tailored plan to provide R&D investments that advance state of the art solutions for world class medical care with an emphasis on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, Prosthetics, Restoration Sight Eye Care, and other conditions directly relevant to the injuries our soldiers are currently receiving on the battlefield."

This is very timely with the recently updated Defense and Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Center Web Site and the opening of the new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), a tri-service military medical center located on the Bethesda, Maryland, USA campus of the present National Naval Medical Center by September 2011.

The chart above is one of multiple visualizations done in Spotfire, a data analytic software. It's based on multiple data sets mined from the most authoritative sources we could find and organized in spreadsheets (TBI and Awards)...