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Outreach As stated on the National Highway Traffic Administration’s (NHTSA) website, the mission of CIREN is “to improve the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of motor vehicle crash injuries to reduce deaths, disabilities, and human and economic costs.” Community outreach is a key component to completing this mission. The table below summarizes Toyota-WFU CIREN center’s current outreach efforts. Downloadable links are highlighted in the table below. The presentation the Wake Forest University School of Medicine CIREN center gave at the quarterly CIREN meeting from the 19th to the 21st of September is available for review. This presentation describes how Mahalanobis distance can be used to determine how similar the NASS and CIREN databases are in order to determine the statistical significance of CIREN studies. You are also invited to download the audio transcript of Dr. Meredith and Dr. Stitzel speaking about CIREN on the local NPR affiliate, 88.5 WFDD. Please visit again as more content will be uploaded as it becomes available. Date | Event | Audience | Attendance | Method | 8/4/05 | Regional Trauma Advisory Committee Meeting | Trauma physicians, EMS, trauma managers | Over 100 professionals | PowerPoint | 11/1/05 | EMS training | EMS from five counties | 25 training officers | PowerPoint | 11/14/05 | In-service training | ED staff, Aircare | 20 nurses | Handouts | 12/05 | Fox8 WGHP-TV Evening News | Local coverage | Unknown | News report, 2:59 minutes | 2/06 | WXII-TV12 Evening News | Local coverage | Unknown | News report, 1:55 minutes | 3/10/06 | National Public Radio | Local coverage | Unknown | Interview, 7:40 minutes | 5/06 | Driver’s Education | High school | 210 students | PowerPoint | 5/30/06 | AARP Driver’s Education | Senior citizens | 15 individuals | PowerPoint | 7/7/06 | Presentation to summer students working at the hospital | High School students | 30 students | Lecture and slides, approximately 20 minutes | 9/20/06 | CIREN Quarterly Meeting | CIREN, Government, and Industry Participants | Over 100 professionals | Lecture and slides, approximately 30 minutes |
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