Event

Child Occupant Protection: Current knowledge and future opportunities

SAFER invites you to a Swedish-North American seminar

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Participants in the seminar will learn about the following topics:

• The current status of research in child occupant protection
• Pediatric anatomic development, biomechanics and its influence on child motor vehicle safety
• Child specific injuries and injury mechanisms
• Fundamental protection principles for child occupants
• Trends in key benchmarks in child occupant protection including restraint use and front row seating
• Insight into the child and family decision making on appropriate safety choices
• Child anthropometry and restraint fit
• Unique needs of young drivers
   

Moderator: Kristy Arbogast, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Speakers include:   

• Richard Kent, University of Virginia Center for Applied Biomechanics
• Matthew Reed, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
• Matthew Maltese, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Kristy Arbogast, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Flaura Winston, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Michael Nance, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Katarina Bohman, Autoliv Research/SAFER
• Lotta Jakobsson, Volvo Cars/SAFER
• Hans Norin, Chalmers University of Technology/SAFER
• Marianne Johansson, Saab Automobile AB/SAFER
   

The seminar is free of charge and coffee is provided during the day. A lunch restaurant is available in close connection to the seminar room. Lunch is not included.

Welcome!