Personal Injury Law

IBIA Mourns the Passing of William Bryan Jennett

By Bruce Stern

The International Brain Injury Association is sad to announce the passing of William Bryan Jennett, CBE, M.D., FRCS. Jeanette not only distinguished himself as a clinician and scholar but lectured and wrote extensively on issues relating to brain injury. As has been said, he sustained a commitment to a challenging and controversial issue as related to the vegetative state, and he was able to draw concepts from many fields into a cogent analysis of the topic as was demonstrated, later in his career, in his 2002 monograph entitled "The Vegetative State," Medical Fact Epic, Ethical and Legal Dilemmas."

Jeannett remained one of the driving forces behind some of the more recent international work in the area of disorders of consciousness over the last 15 years. Jeannett's passing will certainly be a great loss to the brain injury community, though his contributions will not be forgotten.

Full post as published by Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog on March 10, 2008 (boomark / email).