Dr. Zemek is hopeful the research program, which is currently funded for 2.5 years, will help create new guidelines for concussion care and treatment that improve patient outcomes. The hope is the project will eventually be renewed for another 2.5 years.

The project, called Transcendent, is a $5.4-million research collaboration between the CHEO Research Institute, 360 Concussion Care and the Ontario Brain Institute.

A new research collaboration is putting Ottawa -- and Canada -- on the map, when it comes to concussion research and care.

Funded by OBI, the TRANSCENDENT research program is led by Dr. Roger Zemek, a Pediatric Emergency Physician and Senior Scientist at CHEO, Scientific Director of360 Concussion Care and Professor and Clinical Research Chair in Pediatric Concussion at the University of Ottawa.