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Presentations
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GHSA has requested presentations from all speakers. Presentations will be posted to this page as they are received. Unless indicated, all files are in PDF  format.
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GHSA Business Meeting
- Betty Mercer, President, Mercer Consulting Group LLC
Management Review (MR) Project Summary  (Members Only)
Opening General Session (Monday)
- Honorable Debbie Hersman, Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Washington, DC
- James Vondale, Director, Automotive Safety Office, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI
Workshop 1
Data Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS)
- Michael Geraci, Director, Office of Safety Programs, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Washington, DC
- Captain Howard Hall, Commanding Officer, Operational Services
Section, Baltimore County Police Department, Baltimore, MD
Workshop 2
Traffic Safety Fundamentals: Connecting the Dots
- Susan Herbel, Principal, Cambridge Systematics, Inc., Heathrow, FL
- Paul Jovanis, Director, Transportation Operations Program, Larson Transportation Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
- Randall Smith, Traffic Safety Administrator, Florida Department of
Transportation, Tallahassee, FL
- Compiled Presentation and Quiz [1 MB, 39 pgs.]
Workshop 3
Teen Drivers: Crashes Waiting to Happen
- Pam Fischer, Governor’s Representative and Director, New Jersey Division
of Highway Traffic Safety, Trenton, NJ
- Renee Slick, President/CEO, RRG Consulting, Inc., Manhattan, KS
- Allen Robinson, Chief Executive Officer, American Driver and Traffic Safety Education AssocIation (ADTSEA), Indiana, PA
Workshop 4
Bolstering Occupant Protection
- Dr. Joseph Thompson, Arkansas Surgeon General and Director, Arkansas Center for Health Improvement (ACHI), Little Rock, AR
- Lawrence Decina, Senior Associate, TransAnalytics, Kulpsville, PA
- Lowell Porter, Governor’s Representative and Director, Washington Traffic Safety Commission, Olympia, WA
Workshop 5
New and Cool Highway Safety Technologies
- James Vondale, Director, Automotive Safety Office, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI
- Jim Sayer, Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), Ann Arbor, MI
Workshop 6
Pedestrian Safety: Influencing Behavior Through Engineering Safety
- Michael Weiner, Traffic Engineering Director, City of Savannah, Savannah,
GA
- Presentation [8.8 MB, 20 pgs.] NOTE: This is a very large file.
General Session (Tuesday)
- Dr. Grant Baldwin, Director, Unintentional Injury Division, National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA
- Peter Kissinger, President and CEO, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety,
Washington, DC
- Louis Tuthill, Social Science Analyst, National Institute of Justice, U.S.
Department of Justice, Washington, DC
Workshop 7
Multicultural Outreach Done Right
- Craig Borne, External Civil Rights Manager, NHTSA, Washington, DC
Workshop 8
Traffic Records Performance Measures Listening Session
- Jim Hedlund, Principal, Highway Safety North, Ithaca, NY
Workshop 9
Rural Highways Don’t Have to be Dieways
- Bob Thompson, Program Evaluator, Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau, Iowa Department of Safety, Des Moines, IA
- Lee Munnich, Director, Center for Excellence in Rural Safety, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- John Miller, Safety Engineer, Missouri Department of Transportation,
Jefferson City, MO
Workshop 10
Where Did All My Reporters Go? Getting Media Coverage in an Age of Cutbacks
- Kathryn L. Henry, Marketing Specialist,
Office of Communications and Consumer Information,
NHTSA, Washington, DC
- Janet Dewey-Kollen, Contractor, New Mexico Traffic Safety Bureau,
Santa Fe, NM
Workshop 11
Promising Strategies Targeting DWI
- Clay Abbott, DWI Resource Prosecutor, Texas District and County
Attorneys Association, Austin, TX
- Rod MacDonald, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Traffic Safety
Management and Research (ITSMR) of the State University of New York
at Albany, Albany, NY
- Stephen Talpins, Chief Executive Officer, National Partnership on Alcohol
Misuse and Crime, Alexandria, VA
Workshop 12
Getting Aggressive with Motorcycle Safety
- Marianne Trussell, Chief Safety Officer, Florida Department of
Transportation, Tallahassee, FL
- Lorrie Laing, Associate, Cambridge Systematics, Inc., Blacklick, OH
- Brett Robinson, Vice President, Highway Safety Services, LLC, Indiana,
PA
Workshop 13
A Culture of Speeding: The Great American Pastime
- Brian Tefft, Senior Research Associate, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety,
Washington, DC
- Kathryn L. Henry, Marketing Specialist,
Office of Communications and Consumer Information,
NHTSA, Washington, DC
Workshop 14
Blending Engineering and Behavior Strategies to Reduce Traffic Deaths
- Tamiko Burnell, Transportation Specialist, Office of Safety, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Washington, DC
- David Beach, Highway Safety Office Director, Utah Department of Public
Safety, Salt Lake City, UT
- Lowell Porter, Governor’s Representative and Director, Washington Traffic
Safety Commission, Olympia, WA
Workshop 15
What’s Driving Distracted Driving?
- Anne McCartt, Senior Vice President for Research, Insurance Institute for
Highway Safety, Arlington, VA
- John Ulczycki, Group Vice President – Research, Communications &
Advocacy, National Safety Council, Itasca, IL
- Melissa Savage, Program Director, Energy, Environment and
Transportation, National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL),
Denver, CO
Reauthorization General Session
- Joe Toole, Associate Administrator for Safety, FHWA, Washington, DC
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