Douglas Wiebe, PhD - Link

Center Director

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Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Penn.

Charles Branas, PhD - Link

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Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor of Epidemiology and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

John MacDonald, PhD - Link

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Professor of Criminology and Sociology
Penny and Robert A. Fox Faculty Director, Fels Institute of Government

Zachary F. Meisel, MD, MPH, MA - Link

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Penn School of Medicine

Therese S. Richmond, PhD, FAAN, CRNP - Link

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Associate Dean for Research & Innovation, Andrea B. Laporte Professor of Nursing, and Co-Director of Penn's NIH Fogarty International Center injury research training grant.

Pat M. Reilly, MD - Link

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Professor of Surgery, the Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Level 1 Trauma Center, and the Chief of the Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery in the Penn School of Medicine.

ADVISORY BOARD

Eugenie L. Birch, MSUP, PhD

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Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education and Chair of the Graduate Group in City Planning in the Penn School of Design.

Brendan Carr, MD, MS 

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Director, Emergency Care Coordination Center, Office of Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Associate Dean, Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University.

Guohua Li, DrPH, MD

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Finster Professor of Epidemiology and Anesthesiology and founding director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Susan Margulies, PhD

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George H. Stephenson Professor of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Director of the Injury Biomechanics Lab at Penn.

Jennifer Pinto-Martin, PhD, MPH

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Executive Director of the Center for Public Health Interests (CPHI) and a Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Nursing where she is the Chair of the Biobehavioral Health Sciences Department.

Sergio Martinez, MD

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Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala City and a leading member of the National Commission of Trauma in Guatemala..

Keshia Pollack, PhD

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Associate Professor and Director of Training and Education at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy.

Daniel Polsky, PhD 

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Professor of Medicine at the Penn School of Medicine, Professor of Health Care Management at the Penn Wharton School of Business, and is the Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.

Susan Sorenson, PhD

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Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center at Penn.  Her areas of expertise include the epidemiology, assessment and management of domestic violence, sexual and physical maltreatment with a focus on adolescents.

Nicole Thomas, MBA

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Core Director, Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center with extensive experience in safety promotion and violence prevention in the Philadelphia Community.

Susan Wachter, PhD

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Sussman Professor and Professor of Real Estate and Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Flaura Winston, MD, PhD

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Professor of Pediatrics and Founder and Scientific Co-Director of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

DEAN'S ADVISORY GROUP

J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD

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Dean, Penn Perelman School of Medicine

Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN

 

Dean, Penn School of Nursing

Steven J. Fluharty, PhD

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Dean Penn School of Arts & Sciences

CENTER INVESTIGATORS

Philippe Bourgois, PhD

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Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Social Medicine and Humanities in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles

Allison E. Curry, PhD, MPH 

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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at CHOP, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Senior Scientist and Director of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Mucio "Kit" Delgado, MD, MS 

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania 

Dennis R. Durbin, MD, MSCE

Director of the Office of Clinical and Translational Research at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Professor of Pediatrics at CHOP and the University of Pennsylvania.

Joel Fein, MD, MPH

Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine in the Penn School of Medicine, Director of the Youth Violence Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and the Fellowship Director for The Division of Emergency Medicine at CHOP.

Erick Guerra, PhD 

Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning

Nancy A. Hodgson, PhD, RN, FAAN 

Anthony Buividas Endowed Term Chair in Gerontology, Associate Professor of Nursing

Bernadette Hohl, PhD 

Instructor, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice and Rutgers School of Public Health

Daniel N. Holena, MD 

Assistant Professor of Surgery
Department of Surgery, Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery, Director of Surgical Rapid Response

Sara Jacoby, PhD, MPH, RN

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Assistant Professor of Nursing

Michelle Kondo, PhD 

Research Scientist, US Department of Agriculture
Forest Service

Samir Mehta, MD 

Chief, Orthopaedic Trauma & Fracture Service Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Pennsylvania Clinical Research Advisor Biedermann Lab for Orthopaedic Research

Catherine C. McDonald, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor of Nursing

Michael Nance, MD

Templeton Professor of Surgery in the Penn School of Medicine and Director of the CHOP Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center.

Greg Ridgeway, PhD

Former Acting Director of the National Institute of Justice and now an Associate Professor of Criminology and Director of the M.S. Program in Criminology at Penn.

Dan Romer, PhD 

Director of the Adolescent Communication Institute (ACI) of the Annenberg Public Policy Center

Carrie Sims, MD 

Associate Professor of Surgery
Department of Surgery, Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery 
Director of Trauma Research
Trauma Center at Penn

Eugenia Catarina South, MD, MSPH 

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Presbyterian Medical Center of Philadelphia

Alia Walker

Community Advocate, Founder and Executive Director of Earth's Keepers Urban Farm in the West Philadelphia and Germantown neighborhoods of Philadelphia.

Shari Wiley, PhD

Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Hampton University School of Science