2008 Annual Meeting
Turning Knowledge into Action
Scottsdale, Ariz., September 7 - 10
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Presentations
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GHSA Business Meeting
- Kendell Poole, Director, Tennessee Governor's Highway Safety Office, Nashville, Tenn.
Presentation on DDACTS [422 KB, 23 pgs.]
Workshop 1 - Impaired Driving Countermeasures that Work
- Richard Compton, Director, Office of Behavioral Safety Research, NHTSA, Washington, D.C.
Download Presentation [159 KB, 82 pgs.] - Vicki Luquette, Vice President, Institute for Public Strategies, Houston, Texas
Download Presentation [1.8 MB, 44 pgs.]
Workshop 2 - Improving Seat Belt Usage with Nighttime Belt Enforcement
- Richard Blomberg, President, Dunlap and Associates, Inc., Stamford, Conn.
Download Presentation [566 KB, 17 pgs.]
Additional Materials:- Speaker Notes [28 KB, 5 pgs.]
- Campaign Comparisons [16 KB, 2 pgs.]
- Time of Death, 2001 - 2007 [16 KB, 1 pg.]
- Citation Comparisons, 10/07 and 5/06 [19 KB, 1 pg.]
- Citation Comparisons, 5/08 and 5/06 [19 KB, 1 pg.]
- Jim Nichols, Principal, Nichols and Associates, Vienna, Va.
Download Presentation [116 KB, 37 pgs.] - Michael Stout, Governor’s Representative and Director, Division of Traffic Safety, Illinois Department of Transportation, Springfield, Ill.
Download Presentation [87 KB, 15 pgs.]
Workshop 3 - Using Non-Traditional Communication Strategies to Enhance Your Program
- Jim Tobin, President, Ignite Social Media, Cary, N.C.
Download Presentation [2 MB, 30 pgs.]
Workshop 4 - Making Teens Safer Drivers
- Rob Foss, Senior Research Scientist and Director, Center for
the Study of Young Drivers, University of North Carolina
Highway Safety Research Center, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Download Presentation [256 KB, 23 pgs.] - Justin McNaull, Director of State Relations, AAA, Washington,
D.C.
Download Presentation [218 KB, 13 pgs.] - Arlene Greenspan, Senior Scientist, National Center for
Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga.
Download Presentation [724 KB, 24 pgs.]
Workshop 5 - Using Performance Measures in Highway Safety Programs
- Lance Neumann, President, Cambridge Systematics, Inc.,
Cambridge, Mass.
Download Presentation [819 KB, 18 pgs.] - Jim Hedlund, Principal, Highway Safety North, Ithaca, N.Y.
Download Presentation [76 KB, 26 pgs.] - Georgia Chakiris, Regional Administrator, Region VI, NHTSA,
Fort Worth, Texas
Download Presentation [68 KB, 8 pgs.]
Workshop 6 - Best Practices in DUI Courts
- David Wallace, Director, National Center for DWI Courts,
National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP),
Alexandria, Va.
Download Presentation [958 KB, 23 pgs.] - The Guiding Principles of DWI Court
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Tuesday Morning General Session
- Adrian Lund, President, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Va.
Download Presentation [939 KB, 56 pgs.] - Susan Ferguson, Principal, Ferguson International LLC, McLean, Va.
Download Presentation [1.2 MB, 24 pgs.] - Robyn Robertson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Traffic Injury Research Foundation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Download Presentation [1.4 MB, 29 pgs.]
Workshop 7 - Improving Motorcycle Safety Through Effective Countermeasures
- Jim Hedlund, Principal, Highway Safety North, Ithaca, N.Y.
Download Presentation [51 KB, 39 pgs.] - Pete Bodyk, Chief, Bureau of Traffic Safety, Kansas Department of Transportation, Topeka, Kan.
Download Presentation [76 KB, 9 pgs.]
Workshop 8 - Implementing Ignition Interlocks for DUI Offenses
- Robyn Robertson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Traffic Injury Research Foundation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Download Presentation [1.6 MB, 31 pgs.] - Michael Stout, Governor’s Representative and Director, Division of Traffic Safety, Illinois Department of Transportation, Springfield, Ill.
Download Presentation [199 KB, 17 pgs.]
Workshop 9 - Distracted and Inattentive Driving: Data, Deterrents and Discussion
- Anne McCartt, Senior Vice President for Research, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Va.
Download Presentation [4.1 MB, 65 pgs.] - Pam Fischer, Governor’s Representative and Director, New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety, Trenton, N.J.
Download Presentation [192 KB, 28 pgs.]
Workshop 10 - Improving the Safe Mobility of Older Drivers
- Peter Kissinger, President and Chief Executive Officer, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Washington, D.C.
Download Presentation [492 KB, 30 pgs.] - Neil Schuster, President and Chief Executive Officer, American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA), Arlington, Va.
Download Presentation [358 KB, 11 pgs.] - Jane Stutts, Associate Director for Social and Behavioral
Research, University of North Carolina Highway Safety
Research Center, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Download Presentation [189 KB, 20 pgs.]
Workshop 11 - Drugged Driving Countermeasures and the DEC Program
- Charles Hayes, DEC Program Regional Operations Coordinator,
International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), Salem,
Ore.
Download Presentation [147 KB, 19 pgs.] - Dan Mulleneaux, Arizona DEC/Drug Recognition Expert
(DRE) Coordinator, Phoenix, Ariz.
Download Presentation [186 KB, 13 pgs.]
Workshop 12 - Screening and Brief Interventions: A Promising DUI Strategy
- Ann Quinn-Zobeck, Director of Education and Training,
Bacchus Network, Denver, Colo.
Download Presentation [183 KB, 12 pgs.] - Pierre Desy, Director, Emergency Nurses Association (ENA)
Injury Prevention Institute/EN CARE,
Des Plaines, Ill.
Download Presentation [532 KB, 19 pgs.]
Workshop 13 - Reducing Speeding with Automated Speed Enforcement
- Anne McCartt, Senior Vice President, Research, Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Va.
Download Presentation [1.7 MB, 36 pgs.] - Captain Thomas Didone, District Commander, Montgomery
County Police Department, Germantown, Md.
Download Presentation [316 KB, 33 pgs.]
Workshop 14 - Teen Brain Development, Underage Drinking and the NMDA
- Ralph Hingson, Director of the Division of Epidemiology and
Prevention Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism (NIAAA), Bethesda, Md.
Download Presentation [2 MB, 76 pgs.]
Workshop 16 - Update on National Guidelines for State Information Systems
- Michael Geraci, Director, Office of Safety Programs, NHTSA,
Washington, D.C.
Download Presentation [351 KB, 19 pgs.] - Chip Chidester, Director, Office of Data Acquisition, National
Center for Statistics and Analysis, NHTSA, Washington, D.C.
Download Presentation [292 KB, 17 pgs.] - Elizabeth Alicandri, Director, Office of Safety Programs, Federal
Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.
Download Presentation [279 KB, 13 pgs.]
Reauthorization General Session
- Sara Vermillion, Assistant Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, General Accountability Office, Washington, D.C.
Download Presentation [63 KB, 11 pgs.] - Tony Kane, Director, Engineering and Technical Services,
American Association of State Highway and Transportation
Officials (AASHTO), Washington, D.C.
Download Presentation [136 KB, 16 pgs.] - Neil Schuster, President and Chief Executive Officer, AAMVA,
Arlington, Va.
Download Presentation [276 KB, 10 pgs.]