CIRCL's Newsletter
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Volume 9, Issue 1 - Fall 2006

•     Director's Message
•     Lifetime Injury Costs
•     CDC Collaboration Fact Sheet
•     Recent Publications
•     Small Grants Awards
•     Staff Notes
•     National Safety Summit
•     SAVIR
•     Epidemiology Seminar Series

Volume 8, Issue 2 - Winter 2005

•     Director's Message
•     CDC Research Agenda
•     New Research Projects and Collaborations
•     Visiting Scholar/Professor
•     Publications
•     Small Grants Announcement
•     Small Grants Awards
•     2006 Injury Conferences
•     SMARTRISK Catalogue
•     New Faculty and Staff

Volume 8, Issue 1 - Winter 2005

•     Director's Message
•     CIRCL Establishes Community Project Fund
•     Trends in Youth Violence
•     Funded Project Wins Abstract Award
•     Trauma Main Contributor in Health Spending Increase
•     LOLA Award Winners
•     CIRCL Co-Sponsors Car Seat Safety Check with Children's Hospital
•     Abusive Head Trauma in Young Children
•     Small Grants Announcement
•     Tsunamis in the Indian Ocean
•     New Injury Book
•     Publications
•     CIRCL Hires New Administrator

Volume 7, Issue 1 - Spring 2004

•     Training and Community Service Projects
•     PA Trauma Center Prevention Coordinator Training Program
•     Coroner Internship Program
•     Regional Community-Initiated Project Fund
•     Injury Control Awards
•     CIRCL Small Grants Awarded
•     Recent Injury-Related Publications
•     Upcoming Webinars

Volume 6, Issue 2 - Fall 2003

•     CDC Funds CIRCL For Another Five Years
•     CIRCL's New Projects:
•     Improving the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Inflicted Head Trauma in Infants
•     The Impact of Neuroendocrine Hormones and Pathophysiology & Outcomes After TBI
•     Managing Return-to-Play Decisions Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
•     The Impact of Pregnancy-Associated Crashes on Birth Outcomes and Infant Survival
•     Infant Head Injury Risk in Falls Using Experimental and Computational Models
•     CIRCL Small Grants Program
•     CIRCL Celebrates 10 years with Research Symposium
•     A Tribute to Peter J. Safar, MD
•     Elluminate Live!™ Software and Real Time Webinars
•     CIRCL Calendar of Events

Volume 6, Issue 1 - Spring 2003

•     Pregnancy Exemption Survey of International Seat Belt Laws
•     Analysis of the Age, Period and Cohort Effects on Violent Trends
•     New Faces at CIRCL

Volume 5, Issue 1 - Spring 2002

•     Traumatic Brain Injury Research in Understudied Populations
•     An Important Effect of Gender on Oxidative Damage in Severe TBI
•     Gender Influences of Excitotoxic and Ischemic Injury
•     Age-Related Differences in TBI

Volume 4, Issue 4 - Winter 2002

•     Finding New Scientific Approaches to Child Abuse
•     Is the Injury Really Accidental?
•     What is the Psychological Impact of Child Abuse?
•     What is the Economic Burden of Maltreatment?

Volume 4, Issue 3 - Fall 2001

•     Tracking Hospitalizations to Improve Injury Control
•     Crash Outcome Data Evaluation Systems
•     Allegheny County Injury Surveillance System

Volume 4, Issue 2 - Spring 2001

•     Forging a Path Toward a Workforce Trained in Injury Prevention and Control
•     Internet-Based Training Materials and Courses
•     Small Grants Program at CIRCL
•     Federal Training Programs
•     Injury Seminar Series Now Available Online
•     Noteworthy CIRCL Events

Volume 4, Issue 1 - January 2001

•     All-Terrain Vehicles:  Particularly Dangerous to Children
•     Director's Message
•     Think First for Kids Promotes Early Safety Habits
•     Think First Program Coordinator Delivers Safety Message
•     Preventing Sledding Injuries
•     CDC Community Sourcebook Addresses Youth Violence
•     CIRCL Seminar Series

Volume 3, Issue 4 - October 2000

•     Project Update:  Wheelchair Seating System Crashworthiness
•     Manual Wheelchair Durability and Injuries
•     Firefighting:  Reducing the Risk of an Inherently Dangerous Occupation
•     CIRCL Welcomes Dr. Anthony Fabio
•     Injury Epidemiology Seminar Series

Volume 3, Issue 3 - July 2000

•     Director's Message
•     Womansplace
•     Allegheny Safe Kids Coalition
•     The Watchful Shepherd Program
•     Residential Fire Protection Programs
•     Allegheny County Traffic Safety Education Project
•     AAA Child Safety Seat Endeavors
•     Pittsburgh Bicycle Helmet Coalition

Volume 3, Issue 2 - April 2000

•     Epidemiology:  The First Step in Injury Prevention
•     Improving Injury Surveillance
•     Economic Aspects of Child Abuse
•     Graduate Student Investigates Child Maltreatment
•     Injury-Related Hospitalizations in PA
•     Wheelchair Study Wins Award

Volume 3, Issue 1 - January 2000

•     Director's Message
•     Editorial:  Learning from Our Patients
•     Amantadine Pharmacotherapy in Patients with TBI
•     CIRCL Establishes Cerebrospinal Fluid Bank from Children with TBI
•     Fellowship Trainee Investigates Brain's Chemical Response to Shaken Baby Syndrome
•     CIRCL Lecture Series Schedule

Volume 2, Issue 4 - October 1999

•     Director's Message
•     Editorial:  Maximizing Mobility
•     Crashworthiness of Wheelchairs Used as Motor Vehicle Seats
•     Graduate Student Studies Biomechanical Aspects of Injury
•     $7.5 Million Grant Establishes Center of Excellence for Wheelchairs and Related Technology
•     CIRCL Sponsors Injury Seminars

Volume 2, Issue 3 - July 1999  

•     The High Price of "Freedom" Part 2
•     Guns & Violence:  Food for Thought
•     Youth & Violence:  Facts about Violence among Youth and Violence in Schools
•     Domestic Violence:  Western Pennsylvania Domestic Violence Initiative
•     Update:  Pennsylvania Motorcycle Helmet Law
•     CIRCL News:  Interpersonal Violence is Focus of Graduate Student Researcher
•     Dr. Rory Cooper Receives Award

Volume 2, Issue 2 - March 1999

•     The High Cost of "Freedom"
•     Programs:  Think First for Kids
•     Research:  Health Care Costs of Violence in Pennsylvania
•     Research:  Injury & Violence During Pregnancy
•     CIRCL Activities

Volume 2, Issue 1 - August 1998

•     Director's Message
•     Acute Care Research
•     CIRCL Additions
•     Research Finds Toxic Levels of Neurochemicals in Shaken Babies
•     Intimate Partner Violence Screening Investigation
•     Rehabilitation Research:  Motor Vehicle Seating Systems for Wheelchairs
•     Washington DC Epidemiology Conference
•     Think First for Kids
•     10 Leading Causes of Death
•     The Medical Costs of Child Abuse
•     NHTSA Sponsored Child Safety Seat Course
•     Youth Violence Initiative
•     Recorded Recall and Safety Information
•     CIRCL Mission