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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is recognized as the leading children’s hospital in the United States. CHOP provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient treatment for children from birth through early adulthood.

The Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) is an interdisciplinary pediatric injury research center at CHOP with over 35 core staff and over 25 affiliated researchers, CIRP’s mission is advancing the safety of children through research. The mission is accomplished through rigorous, interdisciplinary, scientific studies on pressing issues in all phases of childhood injury, including pre-event, event, and post-event injury, in order to identify areas ripe for intervention

Kristy Arbogast, PhD, is the Director for Engineering for CIRP at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1997, she received her PhD in Bioengineering from University of Pennsylvania. She heads multiple projects on motor vehicle injuries in children including a focus on abdominal injury biomechanics.

Kristy Arbogast is a visiting researcher in the SAFER project “Rear Seat Safety for Short Occupants in Side Impact (4 yrs to 5th percentile female)” and will now give a seminar about her previous work.

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