Christina L. Master
University of Pennsylvania · Rehabilitation Medicine
Active 2005–2026
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About
Christina L. Master, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. Her clinical expertise includes concussion, sports medicine, and primary care pediatrics. Her research focuses on concussion, vision, vestibular function, sports medicine, sex differences, disparities, and the development of objective physiologic biomarkers for brain injury. She is involved in multiple research initiatives, including serving as Principal Investigator at the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at the University of Pennsylvania and participating in various concussion research programs and boards. Dr. Master has contributed to advancing concussion assessment and management, particularly in pediatric and adolescent populations, through the development of diagnostic tools and screening procedures. Her work also emphasizes addressing disparities in injury outcomes and improving concussion evaluation for para sport athletes.
Research topics
- Medicine
- Pediatrics
- Emergency medicine
- Physical therapy
- Internal medicine
- Medical emergency
Selected publications
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health · 2021-10-01 · 174 citations
articleSports Medicine · 2021 · 147 citations
The Journal of Pediatrics · 2020 · 34 citations
PLoS ONE · 2024-11-15 · 10 citations
articleOpen accessCorrespondingPURPOSE: To describe CONCUSS, a randomized clinical trial (RCT) designed to compare the following: the effectiveness of immediate office-based vergence/accommodative therapy with movement (OBVAM) to delayed OBVAM as treatments for concussion-related convergence insufficiency (CONC-CI) to understand the impact of time (watchful waiting), the effect of OBVAM dosage (12 versus 16 therapy sessions), and to investigate the underlying neuro-mechanisms of OBVAM on CONC-CI participants. METHODS: CONCUSS…
British Journal of Sports Medicine · 2025-10-01 · 7 citations
articleOpen accessOBJECTIVE: The CONCUSS randomised clinical trial compared the effectiveness of immediate office-based vergence/accommodative therapy with movement (OBVAM) to delayed therapy for the treatment of concussion-related convergence insufficiency (CONC-CI) in participants 11-25 years old with persisting postconcussive symptoms 4-24 weeks post injury. METHODS: Symptomatic CONC-CI was diagnosed using clinical signs via near point of convergence (NPC) and positive fusional vergence (PFV) and symptoms via…
Recent grants
Objective Translational Multi-domain Early Concussion Assessment
NIH · $4.5M · 2018–2024
Frequent coauthors
- 442 shared
Kristy B. Arbogast
University of Pennsylvania
- 274 shared
Matthew F. Grady
University of Pennsylvania
- 151 shared
Catherine C. McDonald
Philadelphia University
- 142 shared
Thomas W. McAllister
University of Indianapolis
- 141 shared
Daniel J. Corwin
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- 101 shared
Michael McCrea
Medical College of Wisconsin
- 94 shared
Susan S. Margulies
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
- 88 shared
Mark R. Zonfrillo
Brown University
Labs
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Awards & honors
- University of Pennsylvania Academy of Master Clinicians
- American College of Sports Medicine Board of Trustees
- American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Board of Direct…
- Penn Center for Brain Injury and Repair Research Group
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