Injury Free Staff

National Office

Dr. Barbara Barlow, MD, FACS, FAAP, Executive Director

Danielle Laraque-Arena, MD, FAAP, Associate Director

E. Lenita Johnson, MA, Communications & Marketing Director

Joyce Pressley, Ph.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Medical Center.

DiLenny Roca-Dominguez, Administrator

Walter Rice, Webmaster

Atlanta

Maneesha Agarwal, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine; Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Terri McFadden-Garden, MD, Co-Principal Investigator

Joseph F. Zwarick, MPA, BSN, BSChE , PI Specialist/Ped. Trauma Registrar

Austin

Nilda M. Garcia, MD, FACS, Trauma Medical Director

Jessica Naiditch, MD

Lindsay Pollok, MPH, Child Injury Prevention Coordinator

Karla Lawson, PhD, Trauma Research Manager

Stewart Williams, Injury Prevention Manager

Baltimore

Eileen M. McDonald, MS, Senior Scientist and Director, Johns Hopkins Children's Safety Centers

Leticia Ryan, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Debra Skultety - Robinson , Manager, Pediatric Burn & Trauma Program

Creason Walter, BS, CHES, CPST, Community Outreach Specialist in Injury Prevention, Pediatric Burn & Trauma Program

Beatrice Brathwaite, MPH, CPST, Senior Program Coordinator in Injury Prevention, Pediatric Burn & Trauma Program

Isam Nasr, MD, Director, Pediatric Trauma Program

Shannon Frattaroli, PhD, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Andrea Gielen, ScD, Professor at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Daniel Hottinger, MD

Vanya Jones, PhD

Ann Schaeffer, RN, Registered Nurse

Deborah Schwengel, MD

Neha Sharma

Barry Solomon, MD, MPH, Assistant Dean for Medical Student Affairs; Professor of Pediatrics

Molly Stevens, MD, Director of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Mary Ellen Wilson, RN, Registered Nurse

Birmingham

Kathy Monroe, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Michele Nichols, Associate Professor of Pediatrics

William D. King, Professor of Pediatrics

Jennifer Mccain MD, Physician with IFCK Bham

Alicia Webb MD, Physician with IFCK Bham

Boston (Boston Children's)

Lois Lee, MD, MPH, Attending physician, emergency department

David Mooney, MD, MPH, Director

Barbara DiGirolamo, Injury Prevention Specialist

Caitlin Farrell, Co-PI

Charleston, SC

Christian J. Streck, Jr., MD, Pediatric Trauma Director, Director of Injury Free, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics (MUSC)

Christa Green, MPH, Injury Prevention Coordinator

Madeline Gehrig, MSN RN CPEN, Pediatric Trauma Program Manager

Chicago (Lurie Children's)

Karen Sheehan, MD, MPH, Medical Director

Michelle Macy, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Amy L. Hill, MS, Project Manager

Elizabeth Powell, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Gail Brodkey, LCSW, Program Coordinator and Community Liaison

Chicago (Rush/UI Health/Stroger)

Felicia Scott, Co-PI

Gina Lowell MD, MPH, Co-PI

Kyran Quinlan MD, MPH, PI

Cincinnati

Mike Gittelman, MD, FAAP, Co-Director

Wendy J. Pomerantz, MD, MS, FAAP, Co-Director

Dawne Gardner, Program Coordinator

Hartford

Brendan Campbell, MD, MPH, Principal Investigator / Director of Pediatric Trauma at CT Children's Medical Center

Kevin Borrup, DrPH, JD, MPA, Director IFCK of Hartford

Steven Rogers, MD, Co-PI Injury Free Hartford / Pediatric Emergency Department Attending Physician

Amy Watkins, MPH, Assistant Manager, Injury Prevention Center

Houston (Children's Memorial)

Mary E Aitken, MD MPH, Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Sandra McKay, MD, Associate Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Michelle Ruda, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Sarah Beth Abbott, Injury Prevention and Outreach Education Coordinator

Vikki Pennington, LMSW, CCLS, CPST, Child Life Specialist

Indianapolis

Matthew Landman, M.D., MPH, FACS, Trauma Medical Director, Associate Professor of Surgery

Joseph O'Neil, M.D., MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor

Nickolas Hogan, EMT-P, Professional Outreach and Injury Prevention Coordinator

Dawn Daniels, PhD, RN, PHCNS-BC, Trauma Program Manager

Jodi Raymond, MPH, CSTR, CAISS, Epidemiologist and Research Coordinator

Phyllis L. Hendry, M.D., FAAP, FACEP, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, Assistant Chair of Research, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville

Rebecca Melvin, BS, EMT-P, Trauma Education Coordinator/Injury Prevention Coordinator

Kansas City

David Juang, MD, PI - Director - Trauma & Burns.

Laura Kemerling MSN, RN C-NPT, Program Manager, Center for Childhood Safety & Injury Prevention

Shannon Bernal, BSN, CPSTI, Car Seat Program Coordinator

Phyllis Larimore, RN, BSN, MPH, PhD(c), Nursing Program Coordinator

Daniel Marx, BSN, MSN, MHSA, Burn Program Coordinator

David Seastrom, RN, BSN , Interim Trauma Program Manager, Trauma Services

Pablo Aguagyo, MD, QBS, Burn Program Director

Amy Looper, BS, CPSTI, Health Facility Assistant

Little Rock

Scott B. Allen, Director, Arkansas Children's Hospital Community Outreach Department

Hope Mullins, Research Coordinator

Long Island

Jose M. Prince, M.D., Pediatric Trauma Program Medical Director

Jillian Savino, MS, CHES, PC, Community Health Educator

Los Angeles (Childrens Hospital)

Jeffrey S. Upperman, MD, Director of Trauma

Helen Arbogast, MPH, CHES, Injury Prevention Coordinator

Mary Taylor, CSTR, Trauma Registrar

Miami

Judy Schaechter, MD, M.B.A, Friend of Injury Free

Julia Belkowitz, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Oneith Cadiz, MD, Director

Lyse Deus, Program Administrator

Chad Thorson, MD, MSPH, Assistant Professor of Surgery The DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami/Miller School of Medicine; Division of Pediatric Surgery

Gioconda Reina, Safety Educator

Isidro Perez, Transportation Specialist

Milwaukee

Michael Levas, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical College of WI, Attending Physician at the Emergency Department/Trauma Center of Children's WI, and Medical Director of Project Ujima

Marlene D. Melzer-Lange, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical College of WI

Minneapolis

Andrew Kiragu, MD, FAAP, FCCM, Principal Investigator

Julie Philbrook, R.N., DNP, MAN, MAL, Trauma Prevention Specialist

Minneapolis (Children's Minnesota)

Andrew Kiragu, MD, FAAP, FCCM, Principal Investigator

Dex Tuttle, M.Ed., CPST-I, Injury Prevention Program Manager, Trauma Services

Nashville

Stacey Pecenka, Manager, Trauma Injury Prevention Program

New Haven

Kirsten Bechtel, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine; Attending physician in the Pediatric Emergency Department of Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital; Medical director of the Pediatric Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program

James Dodington, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine; Co-Medical Director, Injury Prevention, Community Outreach and Research Program, Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital

Nick Aysseh, Manager, Center for Injury and Violence Prevention

Nick Aysseh, Program Coordinator, IFCK-New Haven, Manager YNHH Center for Injury & Violence Prevention

New York (Children's)

Vincent Pierre Duron, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery at CUMC

Steven Stylianos, MD, Co-Director, Injury Free Coalition for Kids at Morgan Stanley Childrens Hospital

DiLenny Roca , Injury Prevention Coordinator

Jeanne Rubsam, RN, MS, CPNP, Pediatric Trauma Coordinator

Ashley Blanchard, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in Emergency Medicine Columbia University Medical Center

New York (Harlem)

Arthur Cooper, M.D., Medical Director

Landon Wickham, Communications Coordinator

Palo Alto

Stephanie Chao, MD, Principal Investigator

Melanie Stroud, RN, BSN, MBA, Pediatric Trauma Program Manager

Melissa Burke, Director of Community Relations and Community Partnership

Peoria

John Hafner, MD, Co-Principal Investigator

Richard Pearl, MD, Co-Principal Investigator

Jamie L. Sammis, Program Coordinator

Margo Yoder, LPN, Injury Surveillance Collection

Philadelphia (St. Christopher's)

Maria Diodonet, B.S., Injury Prevention Coordinator

Phoenix

David M. Notrica, MD, FACS, FAAP, Trauma Medical Director – Phoenix Children’s Hospital

Ilce Alexander, BA, Injury Prevention Specialist, Phoenix Children’s Center for Family Health and Safety, Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Phoenix

Pittsburgh (Children's)

Barbara A. Gaines, MD

Ward M Richardson, M.D., Director of Trauma and Injury Prevention

Christine A. Vitale MSN, RN, Manager - Injury Prevention; Program Coordinator

Jordan James, MPH, CHES, Community Programs Educator

Marie Pagnotta, MPH, Community Programs Educator

Portland (OHSU Doernbecher)

Benjamin Hoffman MD, FAAP, CPST-I, Principal Investigator

Adrienne Gallardo BSW, MAOM, CPST-I, Program Coordinator

Portland (Randall Children's)

Mubeen Jafri, MD, Principal Investigator

Amber Kroeker, Program Coordinator

Providence

Michael Mello, MD, MPH, Director, Injury Prevention Center; Co-Investigator

Michael Chappell, Project Coordinator

Rochester

Anne Brayer, MD, Professor Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics

Karen Knauf, Program Manager, Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Rochester

Kristine DiBitetto, Program Coordinator

Salt Lake City

Charles Pruitt, MD, FAAP, Principal Investigator

San Diego

Mary Beth Moran, PT MS M.Ed, Director- Community Health

Lorraine Lynn, Manager, Injury Prevention

Joy Joelle Donofrio, DO, FAAP, FACEP, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego

Seattle

Beth Ebel, M.D., M.Sc., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics , University of Washington

Brian Johnston, MD, MPH, Chief of Pediatrics, Harborview Medical Center; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington

Lorena Chavez, MPH, CHES, Program Coordinator

Anthony Gomez, RS, Manager, Violence and Injury Prevention Unit

St. Louis

Lindsay Davidson Clukies, MD, FAAP, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Associate Trauma Medical Director Co-Director, Emergency Medical Services Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Nicole Kozma, Manager, Advocacy and Outreach

Lori Beck MSN, RN, CPEN, TNS, Trauma Nurse Coordinator

Worcester, MA

Michael Hirsh, M.D., Co-Director, Injury Free Coalition for Kids, Worcester, MA

Mariann M. Manno, M.D., Co-Director, Injury Free Coalition for Kids, Worcester

Asia Simpson, Injury Prevention coordinator

Did you know?

Children living in poverty have a higher rate of injury than children of more substantial means, (Durkin 1994).

Did you know that falls are the leading cause of injury death among those ages 65 and older? Falls cause 61 percent of traumatic brain injuries in this age group. The good news is many falls can be prevented by maintaining physical strength and by making your home safer!