Dear AAAM Members, As we move into the final stretch of 2025, the AAAM community has much to celebrate. The long-awaited digital version of the AIS Dictionary has launched, allowing users to access AIS codes and guidelines across digital devices, with enhanced features to support accuracy and speed in trauma coding. Learn more about this
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AAAM is excited to announce the launch of our AIS Digital Dictionary, the app version of the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS©) Dictionary. This innovative tool provides you with searchable, real-time access to the AIS 2015 Dictionary across all your devices—phone, laptop, tablet, or desktop. With the AIS Digital Dictionary, you’ll benefit from: Immediate updates and
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Time is running out to register for AAAM’s 69th Annual Scientific Conference. Discover the latest automotive safety innovations and research, and network with a global community of automotive safety researchers, engineers, doctors, nurses, educators, scientists, and more, when you join us in Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 7-10, 2025. New in 2025, AAAM is pleased to
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AAAM honors the legacy of B. Tilman Jolly, who passed away in April at the age of 64. Tilman Jolly first joined AAAM in 1995 after years of involvement in traffic safety, emergency preparedness, and vehicle safety engineering. In the 1990s, he led a group of experts to provide recommendations relating to injuries caused by
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AAAM is proud to partner with the American College of Surgeons to offer two in-person AIS courses as part of the ACS’s TQIP Annual Conference in Chicago. These in-person, instructor-taught courses will both be held at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. Read on for more information. AIS15 Onsite Course November 6-7, 2025 | 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Meet Kristofer Kusano, AAAM member and Staff Safety Researcher at Waymo. Get to know Kristopher in his own words. How long have you been a member of AAAM? At least 9 years? I was a student member, I think from 2010 to 2015, then a professional from 2021 to present. What inspired you to join
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Several years ago, military researchers interested in Military Working Dog (MWD) protective equipment and survivability met with military veterinarians to discuss the need for a tool to gather and analyze injury data for canines. It was decided that the human Abbreviated injury Scale (AIS) could be adapted for use in canines and would meet a
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Multi-vehicle pileups are difficult to analyze. Forensic crash investigation can only study the aftermath of these deadly incidents by picking through the debris left behind. Investigators rarely get to see exactly how the crash unfolded, as each of these highway accidents is unique. In a recent documentary, PBS Nova went behind the scenes of a
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The Board of Directors would like to address the recent editorial published in Traffic Injury Prevention and the concerns it has raised within our community. Although Traffic Injury Prevention is an official journal of AAAM and includes its conference proceedings, and while we respect the editor’s right to share his perspective, AAAM does not necessarily
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By: Valentina Graci, PhD – Chair of the Education Program Subcommittee 2024 was a strong year for our AAAM webinar series. We hosted seven online webinars, which were highly rated and, in some cases, reached up to 200 registrants. AAAM’s Scientific Program Committee’s Education Program Subcommittee hosted these interactive and educational events not just for
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