How long have you been a member of AAAM? Since January 2021. What inspired you to join AAAM? As a pediatrician, I study physiology and pathophysiology. In my country, Chile, health providers do not study motor vehicle traffic crashes comprehensively. AAAM has a comprehensive and holistic vision of motor vehicle traffic crashes, formed by various
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How long have you been using AIS? I started using AIS at the beginning of graduate school… in 2007! My first contact with AIS was at the University of Navarra in Spain. I had been working for four years at the department of collision analysis of a small company and, at that time, the only
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Bright Futures in Automotive Safety AAAM has just completed some of the most challenging months in its history. As we visioned 2020 from Madrid, who could have dreamed that we would not meet in Portland, Oregon, and that our speakers would present from their own offices or that we would network on Zoom? Your AAAM
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How long have you been using AIS? I was hired 12 years ago in the trauma data analyst position and trained at that time in the use of the AIS coding system to assign a severity score to an anatomical injury. What inspired you to obtain CAISS credentials? My inspiration came from the desire to
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How long have you been a member of AAAM? Just a little over one year. What inspired you to join AAAM? I was doing some work on injuries and was curious about AIS and its origins which led me to AAAM. When I checked I found there was an offer for reduced membership rates for
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How long have you been using AIS? My first contact with AIS was in 2007 when I attended the AAAM Coding Course in San Antonio, Texas. It was also my first time in the United States. Since then, I’ve been using AIS for 13 years. What inspired you to obtain CAISS credentials? My PhD was
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The many Cs of COVID-19 have left no one unaffected. We shelter in place, mentor on zoom and share the challenges of family new normals. AAAM also has faced many challenges in recent weeks and with the skilled leadership of your committees, financial supervision and superb guidance of our management company Bostrom, we are poised
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AAAM is moving forward at an amazing pace. Following the annual meeting in Madrid, the committees and leadership have focused on pivotal initiatives designed to propel AAAM into the 21st Century with effective and expanding design. A key component of the developing initiatives was to be a Board of Directors retreat and strategic planning session
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Donna has been a dedicated and respected AIS faculty member for both onsite (her favorite) and online classes for over 20 years. Starting her career as a Trauma Nurse in 1983, working shock-trauma ICU in Allentown, PA, Donna completed her MSN and moved first to a TPD (Trauma Program Director) role in Erie, PA. It
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How long have you been a member of AAAM? This is my third year as a member of AAAM. This is my first year serving as the Chair of the Automated Vehicles Special Interest Group. What inspired you to join AAAM? My research focus is on the etiology of injuries, and on interventions to mitigate
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