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Greetings from AAAM’s AIS Training Program! We are excited to share our upcoming 2019 initiatives with you. • The AIS Team is working on implementing a new Learning Management System in 2019 • AIS North American Faculty will be meeting in mid-May • Faculty Mentoring...

Thank you all for attending a fantastic AAAM Conference this year! We had a 10-year record number of attendees, and a record number of papers, short communications, and posters. We had attendees from the US and Australia, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, India, Japan, Korea,...

Greetings Members. We’re looking forward to seeing many of you in Nashville, TN for our annual conference! I am excited to share some highlights of this year’s program. We have a record number of presentations on pre-crash factors, impaired and distracted driving,...

Greg Klaus became involved with AAAM after being approached by the faculty of an AIS 2005/2008 course that was hosted by his institution. "The AAAM has an important role to play in helping to make the data in your trauma registry as accurate and uniform as possible as...

Motao Zhu is an epidemiologist with 16 years of experience in travel behaviors, traffic safety, and policy evaluation. He joined AAAM because of its "mission statement of eliminating road traffic injuries matched well with my research interests. AAAM is a global and...

Greetings from AAAM’s AIS Training Program! Our AIS faculty and students have certainly experienced their fair share of travel lately, with AIS08 and AIS15 courses taking place all over the country – and beyond. July was an exciting month for AIS faculty members Jan...

This series is free to members AAAM kicked off its new educational webinar series with a dynamic one-hour session entitled Analysis Tips and Tricks for Proper Use, led by esteemed AIS faculty member Kathryn L. Loftis, Ph.D., CAISS. Dr. Loftis focused on the practical...

Greetings Members! Thanks to everyone who has submitted abstracts for this year’s 62nd Annual Conference in Nashville, Tennessee October 7-10, 2018. The Scientific Programming Committee (SPC) met in March and reviewed many of the quality abstracts submitted for full...

By Carolyn Roberts 2017 Recipient of Best Presentation at AAAM’s Student Symposium In 2011, Bose et al1 found that females are 47% more likely to sustain severe or fatal injuries in a given car crash compared to males, even after controlling for age, height, weight,...

Amy Brammer, AIS Faculty member and Chair of AISC.B, has been a registered nurse for 28 years. Her entire career has been spent treating trauma patients throughout the continuum of care. She has worked in the rehabilitation unit, step down, Surgical Intensive Care and...

Terry Smith joined AAAM in 1994. He reflects on what inspired him to be a part of the AAAM family, “My first ‘boss’ was Dr. Jim Newman of Biokinetics and Associates and Jim has always been a huge supporter of AAAM and all the things that it stands for. He was probably...

Greetings Members! First I’d like to thank everyone involved in planning and organizing our very successful 61st Annual Scientific Conference in Las Vegas on October 15-18, 2017. We had an excellent attendance of 144 at the meeting, including 31 students. This is our...

AAAM would like to thank everyone who participated in making this year’s conference a success. We had an overwhelmingly positive response and this is due to your contributions. Our world-renowned speakers, engaged mentors, and enthusiastic students are at the...

Mary Pat McKay, MD, MPH Dr. McKay is a Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician with more than 25 years of academic experience doing transportation safety and injury prevention research – in addition to teaching medical students and residents and taking care of...

AIS UPDATES AAAM’s Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) was proud to exhibit at the Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) Annual Scientific Meeting and Training held in November. TQIP is part of The American College of Surgeons (ACS), a scientific and educational...

By David Browne This is the third in an INROADS series on Automated Driving Systems (ADS), renamed henceforth in this series (from “Autonomous Vehicles / AVs”) to align with recent DOT/NHTSA nomenclature. Each article has highlighted a specific theme or issue within...