Flaura K. Winston, MD, PhD

Flaura Koplin Winston, MD, PhD, is a board-certified pediatrician, a doctorally-trained engineer, and a public health researcher, who conducts research at the interface of child and adolescent health, injury, engineering and behavioral science. Dr. Winston’s work is published in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and focuses on the area of traffic injury. Her research to action to impact approach, pragmatic rigor, has led to patents and a focus on evidence-based mobile health (mHealth) for better health. She is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and serves as the Scientific Director of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Director of the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, the Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies (CChIPS), and Director of a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates site.

Dr. Winston currently serves as an Associate Editor of Injury Prevention, has served on multiple U.S. federal study sections, committees, and advisory panels, and held executive committee positions with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Secretariat for the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention. For her work, Dr. Winston has received funding from federal, state, corporate, and non-profit foundation sources, with major funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the State of Pennsylvania, and State Farm Insurance Companies. She has received awards from a range of organizations that reflect her interdisciplinary background: the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; the American Academy of Pediatrics; the Governor’s Highway Safety Association; the American Philosophical Society; the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; the University of Pennsylvania; US Maternal and Child Health Bureau; Academy Health; Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAHO) & National Quality Forum; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; American Public Health Association; American Institute of Medical and Bioengineering; and Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars. A sample of award-winning, evidence-based websites that highlight her work are: CHOP's Car Seat Safety for Kids, Teen Driver Source, and After the Injury.

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