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Samantha Slinkard-Barnum, Laura Gryder, Kavita Batra, Paul Chestovich, and Deborah Kuhls (all Medicine) recently published an open access journal article, "Skilled Maneuvering: Evaluation of a Young Driver Advanced Training Program," in The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. 

Lindsay Buczek, Laura K. Gryder, Kavita Batra, Allison G. McNickle, Douglas R. Fraser, Deborah A. Kuhls, and Paul J. Chestovich (all Medicine), along with Samantha Slinkard-Barnum (University of South Carolina) and Cassandra Trummel (Southwest Career and Technical Academy) published a study, " Evaluating Long-Term Outcomes of a High…

Laura K. Gryder-Culver (Medicine) presented "Occupant Protection Analysis of Use of Child Restraints by Age" at the 2021 Nevada Traffic Safety Summit hosted by Nevada Department of Transportation and Department of Public Safety to share best practices to reach the ultimate goal of Zero Fatalities in Nevada. Gryder-Culver is a significant…

Laura K. Gryder-Culver, Merika Charupoom (both Medicine), and Erin Breen (Transportation Research Center) presented "Marrying Pedestrian and Bike Data with Court Education Data and Community Demographics" at the 2021 Nevada Traffic Safety Summit hosted by Nevada Department of Transportation and Department of Public Safety to share best practices…

Erin Breen (Transportation Research Center), director of the Road Equity Alliance Project, was a panelist speaker on KNPR's State of Nevada: A spike in deaths has Nevada traffic safety officials looking for answers. Breen, alongside Clark County Commissioner Michael Naft and Nevada Office of Traffic Safety Public Information…

Samantha Slinkard-Barnum (University of South Carolina College of Nursing), Laura K. Gryder-Culver, Kavita Batra, Paul J. Chestovich, and Deborah A. Kuhls (all Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine) published the study "Skilled Maneuvering: Evaluation of a Young Driver Advanced Training Program" in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. The…

Dr. Deborah Kuhls, Laura K. Gryder, Dr. Kavita Batra, Merika Charupoom, Emily Carter, Ana Reyes, and Emily Strickler (all Medicine) implemented hands-on training in Statistics for Traffic Safety at the 2021 National Summer Transportation Institute to a cohort of advanced high school students interested in traffic systems and STEM.

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ was recognized for its outstanding contributions and significant progress in highway safety research. Funded by grants from the Nevada office of traffic safety, principal investigator Dr. Deborah Kuhls, project director Laura Gryder (both Medicine), and a team of passionate faculty, staff, and student…

Erin Breen (Transportation Research Center) and Laura Gryder (Medicine) were interviewed by NextCity.org about their involvement in the creation, implementation, and assessment of Ped SAFE, a Southern Nevada pedestrian safety educational class offered by the Vulnerable Road Users Project to individuals cited for pedestrian law violations in lieu…

Chad Morrison, Laura Gryder, Ty Olson, Douglas Fraser, Allison McNickle, Syed Saquib, Joseph Carroll, Samantha Slinkard-Barnum, Deborah Kuhls, and Paul Chestovich  (all Medicine) researchers presented at the 34th annual Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. They are researchers in the surgery department. Morrison presented "The…