Education
McKee completed a fellowship in neuropathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and a residency in neurology at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital.
McKee completed a fellowship in neuropathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and a residency in neurology at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital.
She is particularly known for her work studying Alzheimer"s disease and the consequences of repetitive traumatic brain injury. McKee is co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University (BU) and the chief neuropathologist for the National Veterans Affairs Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Brain Bank. She is Professor of Neurology and Pathology at BU, and was an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School from 1991 to 1994.
McKee is a leading authority on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease which was first discovered and published by Nigerian-American neuropathologist Doctor Bennet Omalu.
CTE is most commonly found in athletes participating in boxing, American football, ice hockey, other contact sports, and military service. She has found evidence of CTE in over 70 of the athletes that she has examined, including three National Hockey League enforcers and 18 NFL players.
McKee has presented her findings to National Football League officials and testified before the United States House Judiciary Committee. She has also studied diseases including Lewy Body disease, Parkinson"s disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, multiple system atrophy, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, and corticobasal degeneration. is a leading figure in the 2013 Public Broadcasting Service Frontline documentary and book, League of Denial.