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Facts

Death Rate Distribution
Injury death rates are lower among children 6-11 years of age than any other age group, 6 deaths per 100,000 population, and highest, at close to 300 deaths per 100,000 population, among persons aged 85 and older. Source: CDC/NCHS, Bergen G,Chen LH, Warner M, Fingerhut LA. Injury in the United States: 2007. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2008


Nominations

   

SAVIR 2012 Board of Director's Election Results

 

The following SAVIR members have been elected to the Board of Directors:


Executive Board of Directors

President
Richard W. Sattin, MD, FACP
Professor and Research Director
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Georgia

President-Elect
Frederick Rivara, MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, University of Washington

Past-President
Andrea Gielen, ScD, ScM
Director, The Ceenter for Injury Research and Policy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
 
Treasurer
Deb Houry, MD, MPH
Vice Chair for Research and Associate Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory Center for Injury Control, Emory University School of Medicine


SAVIR Board of Directors

Carri Casteel, MPH, PhD
Research Associate, Professor of Epidemiology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Core Faculty, UNC Injury Prevention Ressearch Center

Theresa Cruz, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UNM Prevention Research Center

Joel Fein, MD, MPH
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Angela Mickalide, PhD, MCHES
Director of Research and Programs, Safe Kids Worldwide

Keshia Pollack, PhD, MPH
Department of Health Policy and Management, Center for Injury Research and Policy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Carol Runyan, PhD
Professor
Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado

Billie Weiss, MPH
Associate Director
Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center, UCLA School of Public Health


Member-at-Large:

Patricia G. Schnitzer, PhD, RN
Associate Professor, Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri, Columbia

Student Representative:

Catherine C. McDonald, PhD, RN
Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Health Equity Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing