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Haojie Mao
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Latest papers
From motion to deformation: a large-scale study of concussive versus non-concussive head acceleration events and brain strains in Canadian university football.
Journal of biomechanics · 2026
Incidents and patterns of commotio cordis among athletes in the USA from 1982 to 2023.
Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2026
Revisiting Commotio Cordis: Novel Insight Into Clinical Variability, Diagnosis, Epidemiology, and Prevention.
Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026 · senior author
Latest funding
- $175,000
Head Mechanics
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $50,000
Investigating hockey helmeted impacts to mitigate concussion risks using a hybrid experimental and computational approach
NSERC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $224,000
Developing mathematical models for understanding the fundamental mechanics of the healthy brain under high-rate loading
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
29 publications.
From motion to deformation: a large-scale study of concussive versus non-concussive head acceleration events and brain strains in Canadian university football.
Brooks JS, Allison WW, Bian K, Mao H, Dickey JP
Incidents and patterns of commotio cordis among athletes in the USA from 1982 to 2023.
Shore E, Moseley GA, DeLong R, Register-Mihalik J, Drezner JA, Dickey GJ, Mao H, Cantu RC, Kucera KL
Revisiting Commotio Cordis: Novel Insight Into Clinical Variability, Diagnosis, Epidemiology, and Prevention.
Dickey GJ, Dorian P, Fedder SP, Patel J, Shin S, Shore E, Mao H
Prototype design of porous Ti6Al4V intraosseous implant for use in mandibular reconstruction.
Hijazi KM, Mao H, Holdsworth DW, Dixon SJ, Armstrong JE, Rizkalla AS
Effects of repetitive head impacts from a single season on the cognitive functioning of youth male soccer players.
Watson RS, Sergio L, Mao H, Brooks JS, Dickey JP
A Clinically Relevant Mouse Model of Concussion Incorporating High Rotational Forces.
Teasell EM, Potts E, Geremia N, Lu L, Xu X, Mao H, Brown A
Comprehensively characterizing heterogeneous and transversely isotropic properties of femur cortical bones.
Zhang G, Jia X, Li Z, Wang Q, Gu H, Liu Y, Bai Z, Mao H
Advancing Commotio cordis Safety Standards Using the Total Human Models for Safety (THUMS).
Dickey GJ, Bian K, Islam SU, Khan HR, Rohr S, Mao H
Understanding Head Injury Risks During Car-to-Pedestrian Collisions Using Realistic Vehicle and Detailed Human Body Models.
Gunasekaran K, Ul Islam S, Mao H
Mechanical properties of young mice tibia in four circumferential quadrants under nanoindentation.
Zhang G, Li Z, Li N, Shi J, Fan H, Mao H
Head Mechanics
Principal investigators: Mao, Haojie
Keywords: impact biomechanics; injury biomechanics; brain biomechanics; finite element method; traumatic brain injury
Investigating hockey helmeted impacts to mitigate concussion risks using a hybrid experimental and computational approach
Principal investigators: Mao, Haojie H
Developing mathematical models for understanding the fundamental mechanics of the healthy brain under high-rate loading
Principal investigators: Mao, Haojie
Keywords: head biomechanics; brain biomechanics; human body model; computational biomechanics; finite element method; impact biomechanics; blast biomechanics; cellular level model; material models for soft material; constitutive equation
Finite element modelling of the brain during helmeted impacts to the head**********
Principal investigators: Mao, Haojie
Multi-disciplinary biomechanical and mathematical modelling of the brain to understand mild traumatic brain injury/concussion
Principal investigators: Mao, Haojie
Keywords: Concussion; Brain biomechanics; Network modelling;Neuroimaging; Mathematical modelling; Cognition; Stress/strain; Axonal network; Finite element method
Developing mathematical models for understanding the fundamental mechanics of the healthy brain under high-rate loading
Principal investigators: Mao, Haojie
Protecting the brain through improving helmets
Principal investigators: Mao, Haojie
Head Mechanics
Principal investigators: Mao, Haojie
Head Mechanics
Principal investigators: Mao, Haojie
Head Mechanics
Principal investigators: Mao, Haojie
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Arthur Brown and Robert Bartha: 7 shared papers
- Arthur Brown and Haojie Mao: 3 shared papers
- Lauren Sergio and Haojie Mao: 1 shared paper
- Vania Prado and Arthur Brown: 1 shared paper
- Vania Prado and Robert Bartha: 1 shared paper
- Vania Prado and Ravi Menon: 1 shared paper
- Vania Prado and Lisa Saksida: 1 shared paper
- Vania Prado and Haojie Mao: 1 shared paper
- Arthur Brown and Ravi Menon: 1 shared paper
- Arthur Brown and Lisa Saksida: 1 shared paper
- Robert Bartha and Ravi Menon: 1 shared paper
- Robert Bartha and Lisa Saksida: 1 shared paper
- Robert Bartha and Haojie Mao: 1 shared paper
- Ravi Menon and Haojie Mao: 1 shared paper
- Paul Dorian and Haojie Mao: 1 shared paper
- Lisa Saksida and Haojie Mao: 1 shared paper
- Qi Zhang and Haojie Mao: 1 shared paper
- Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Medical Biophysics
- Mechanical and Materials Engineering
- Kinesiology and Health Sciences
- Physiology and Pharmacology
- Cardiology
- PATHOLOGY & LABORATORY MEDICINE, Western University
Co-authors at Western University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Arthur Brown
Anatomy and Cell Biology
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Vania Prado
Anatomy and Cell Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Robert Bartha
Medical Biophysics
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Ravi Menon
Medical Biophysics
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Paul Dorian
Cardiology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Lisa Saksida
Physiology and Pharmacology
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Lauren Sergio
Kinesiology and Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Qi Zhang
PATHOLOGY & LABORATORY MEDICINE, Western University
1 shared papers, latest 2022
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