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Donald Reinfurt, Ph.D. | Jane Stutts, Ph.D.
| J Richard Stewart, Ph.D.
Dr. Donald Reinfurt elected fellow by AAAM
Donald Reinfurt,
Ph.D. |
Dr. Donald Reinfurt,
deputy director of the Highway Safety Research Center, was named a fellow
by the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine in a ceremony
in Barcelona, Spain, on September 22, 1999.
AAAM is a professional multi-disciplinary organization dedicated to
motor vehicle crash injury prevention and control. Founded in 1957 by
physicians interested in motor racing, AAAM consists of approximately
700 researchers and medical professionals who study issues such as vehicle
crashworthiness, impact biomechanics and long-term medical and socioeconomic
consequences of automotive crashes. Reinfurt had already been honored
by the association in 1990 with its Best Paper Award for a study evaluating
North Carolina's seat belt law.
Each year AAAM recognizes members who do exceptional work in the highway
safety field. Reinfurt was the only American recognized as a fellow
by the international association in 1999.
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Dr. Jane Stutts appointed
to national committee
Jane Stutts,
Ph.D. |
Dr. Jane Stutts,
manager of epidemiological studies at the Highway Safety Research Center,
was appointed to a steering committee for the Conference on Transportation
in an Aging Society.
This Transportation Research Board committee is appointed by the National
Research Council.
The committee organized and conducted the national conference "Transportation
in an Aging Society: A Decade of Experience." The conference, held in
Bethesda, Md., in November of 1999, provided a forum for invited speakers
to address key issues related to the mobility and safety of older people,
and to lay the groundwork for a national agenda for meeting the transportation
needs of an aging society. The committee is helping to compile a Transportation
Research Board Special Report to be released this fall. The report will
review research and related activities completed during the past decade
dealing with older person transportation issues. The report will also
identify future research needs and address the implementation of research
findings.
Stutts recently completed a six-year term as chair of the Committee
on Bicycling for the Transportation Research Board. She is an active
member of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Safe Mobility
of Older Persons, which provides a forum for researchers and practitioners
to disseminate research and related information to improve the safety
and mobility of older drivers.
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Dr. J. Richard Stewart retires
from HSRC
J. Richard Stewart, Ph.D. |
J. Richard Stewart
began working at the Highway Safety Research Center in the fall of 1970,
by way of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. After nearly 30 years, he's decided he wants
a bit more free time and is retiring. Luckily for HSRC, he has decided
to continue working half time.
As a talented statistician, HSRC has relied heavily upon Stewart to
analyze data for countless projects. Among other things, Stewart has
been involved in projects estimating the effects of seat belts, analyzing
the effects of alcohol in motor vehicle crashes, and assessing the effectiveness
of various legislative changes involving motor vehicle use. More recently,
Stewart has been estimating crash risk related to roadway design using
data from the Highway Safety Information System — an information system
with roadway data from eight states. Looking back, Stewart reflected
on some of his favorite projects, "I like learning new ways of doing
things with statistics. From my point of view the ones that have more
interesting statistical properties make them more challenging and interesting."
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