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This page highlights the work of individual researchers and research teams
whose work is so important to understanding the problem of crashes during
pregnancy and how to prevent and reduce the harm related to these events.
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in the process of adding many more entries to this page. Researchers who wish to
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Harold (Hank) B. Weiss, PhD
 As
Director of the Center
for Injury Research and Control at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Weiss'
primary research interests have focused on the epidemiology of maternal and
fetal injury since 1998. He has focused on various aspects of the issue ranging
from better enumerating fetal trauma mortality, understanding the risks of
violence during pregnancy, the epidemiology of crashes involving pregnant women
and studying the fetal outcomes from pregnancy related injury. Dr. Weiss is a
cofounder of Advocates for Auto Safety during Pregnancy.
Current Research:
Dr. Weiss is the principal investigator on a
CDC/NCIPC sponsored
research grant entitled
The Impact of Pregnancy-Associated
Crashes on Birth Outcomes and Infant Survival. This is a
retrospective study of approximately 14,000 female drivers in Pennsylvania who
were pregnant at the time of a police-reported motor vehicle crash. The project
will use data linkage to better understand and quantify the impact of
pregnant-driver crashes on birth outcomes including fetal and infant survival,
low birth weight and prematurity. Crash factors, including severity and
geometries, will be derived from police reports. Information regarding maternal
injuries will be identified from linked police, EMS and hospital data. Infant
birth and fetal death certificates will provide information on adverse
reproductive outcomes and those will be correlated with crash and injury factors
as predictors. Results are expected to be available in 2007-8.
Selected Publications:
- Sirin H,
Weiss HB, Dunning
K., Sauber E.
Seat Belt use, Counseling and Motor-Vehicle Injury
During Pregnancy: Results from a Multi-State Population-Based Survey.
Maternal and Child Health Journal (published online: 6 March 2007).
- Weiss
HB, Sirin H, Levine J, Sauber E.
International survey of seatbelt use exemptions.
Injury Prevention.
2006 Aug; 12(4); 258- 261.
- Hyde L, Cook L, Olson L, Weiss HB, Dean J.,
Effect of motor vehicle crashes on adverse fetal outcomes.
Obstet
Gynecol, 2003; 102(2), 279-286.
- Weiss HB, Lawrence BA and
Miller TR. "Pregnancy
associated assault hospitalizations," Obstet Gynecol, 2002;
100(3): 773-780.
- Weiss HB, Lawrence BA and
Miller TR. "Prevalence
& risk of pregnancy-associated motor vehicle injury hospitalizations."
Proceedings of Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.
Tempe, Arizona. September, 2002.
- Weiss HB, Strotmeyer S. "Characteristics
of pregnant women in motor vehicle crashes." Injury Prevention, 2002
September; 8(3):207-210.
- Weiss HB, Songer TJ, Fabio
A. "Fetal
Deaths Related to Maternal Injury," JAMA, 2001, October 17;286(15):1862-1868.
- Weiss HB,
"The epidemiology of traumatic injury-related fetal mortality in
Pennsylvania: the role of motor vehicle crashes," Accident Analysis
and Prevention 2001, July; 33(4) 449-454.
All publications listed in Index Medicus.
Stefan M. Duma, PhD
 As
Director of the Center for
Injury Biomechanics (CIB) at Virginia Tech, his primary research efforts
focus on investigating human tolerance to impact loading. The application of
this research includes automobile safety, pregnant crash modeling, military
restraints, and sports biomechanics. The CIB combines experimental testing with
automobile test dummies and computational modeling in order to develop human
impact injury criteria.
Current Research:
Selected Publications:
Moorcroft DM, Stitzel JD, Duma GG, Duma SM.
Computational model of the pregnant occupant: predicting the risk of injury in
automobile crashes. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2003 Aug;189(2):540-4.
All publications listed in Index
Medicus.
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