HIPRC featured in Harborview Medical Center 2014 Trauma Report
By: Administrator
Date: November 5th, 2014
UW Medicine researchers at Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (HIPRC) examine the causes of injury and methods of prevention. Collaborating with their peers nationwide, HIPRC investigators translate their findings into best clinical practices.
– Johnese Spisso (Chief Health System Officer, UW Medicine; Vice President, Medical Affairs, University of Washington) and Dr. Eileen Bulger, MD (Chief of Trauma, Harborview Medical Center; UW Professor of Surgery)
The UW Medicine Harborview Medical Center 2014 Trauma Report includes snapshots of the following HIPRC members and their studies:
- HIPRC Director Dr. Monica Vavilala, MD and her study to determine how best to increase adherence and reduce barriers to adoption of the “Pediatric Guidelines for Acute Medical Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in Infants, Children, and Adolescents.”
- HIPRC Core Member Dr. Doug Zatzick, MD and his study published in the Annals of Surgery, that found that post-traumatic stress disorder and depression were very common among patients assessed one year after suffering a serious injury.
- HIPRC Associate Member Dr. Melissa Schiff, MD, MPH and her study to determine incidence rates of injury among soccer players as well as risk factors that predispose some girls to soccer injuries.
- HIPRC Core Members Dr. Eileen Bulger, MD, FACS and Rob Kaufman, BS and their study to conduct motor vehicle injury surveillance for occupant injuries among restrained car passengers in selected crashes to provide data that could improve the design and engineering of passenger vehicles.
- HIPRC Core Member Dr. Fred Rivara, MD, MPH and his study on gun safety in conjunction with the City of Seattle and King County.
- HIPRC Core Member Dr. Beth Ebel, MD, MSc, MPH and her study that found that nearly half of Washington state’s distracted drivers were texting on mobile devices.
Full 2014 Trauma Report (.pdf)
