SAVIR: Committee Chairs and Council Chairs

Facts

Injuries that occurred in 2000 cost the US health care system $1.1 billion for fatal injuries, $33.7 billion for injury hospitalizations, $31.8 billion for injury emergency department visits, and $13.6 billion for other outpatient visits. [Finkelstein EA, Corso PS, Miller TR. The Incidence and Economic Burden of Injuries in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.]

Committee Chairs and Council Chairs

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Advocacy and Public Policy Committee

Susan Scavo Gallagher, MPH, Co-Chairhair
Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: (617) 636-3539 Fax: (617) 636-4017
Email: sue.gallagher@tufts.edu

Susan DeFrancesco, JD, MPH, MAT, Co-Chair
University of New Mexico Prevention Research Center
MSC 116145
Albuqueque, NM 87131
Phone: (505) 272-3933 Fax: (505) 417-1994
Email: SDeFrancesco@salud.unm.edu

Conference and Programs Committee

Corinne Peek-Asa, PhD, Chair
Injury Prevention Research Center
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Phone: (319) 335-4895 Fax: (319)337-9226
Email: corinne-peek-asa@iowa.edu

Organizational Development Committee

Membership Subcommittee

Douglas J. Wiebe, PhD, Chair
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Room 933, Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
Phone: (215) 746-0149
Email: dwiebe@exchange.upenn.edu

Patricia Schnitzer, PhD, RN, Co-Chair
University of Missouri at Columbia
5331 Sinclair School of Nursing
Columbia, MO 65203
Phone: (573) 882-1969
Email: schnitzerp@health.missouri.edu

Sustainability Subcommittee

Vacant, Chair

Science and Research Committee

Richard W. Sattin, MD, FACP, Chair
Medical College of Georgia
1120 15th St., AF-1011
Augusta, GA 30912-2800
Phone: (706) 721-7144
Email: rsattin@mcg.edu

Training and Infrastructure Committee

Mariana Garrettson, MPH
The Commonwealth Medical College
501 Madison Avenue
Scranton, PA 18510
Phone: (570) 504-9622
Email: mgarrettson@tcmedc.org

Nominations Committee

Corinne Peek-Asa, PhD
Injury Prevention Research Center
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Phone: (319) 335-4895 Fax: (319) 337-9226
Email: corinne-peek-asa@uiowa.edu

Council of Centers

Carol Runyan, PhD, MPH
Injury Prevention Research Center
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7505
Phone: (919) 966-3916 Fax: (919) 966-0466
Email: carol_runyan@unc.edu