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**Crash         Injury Research         and Engineering Network***CIREN The Nation's         Largest Learning Laboratory***The Crash Injury         Research and Engineering         Network (CIREN)         is a multi-center research program involving a collaboration of clinicians         and engineers in academia, industry, and government. Together, they are         pursuing in-depth studies of crashes, injuries, and treatments to improve         processes and outcomes. CIREN's mission is to improve the prevention,         treatment, and rehabilitation of motor vehicle crash injuries to reduce         deaths, disabilities, and human and economic costs.
**UPCOMING           EVENTS:**

**CIREN - Public                 Meeting**                CIREN will hold its next public meeting at the University of Maryland-Baltimore's                 CIREN Center The meeting will be held in the Health Science Facility (building 2, room 130) on Thursday November 4, 2004 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 :00pm                The facility is located at the corner of Penn and Lombard Streets in Baltimore, Maryland Nine of the Centers will present their research findings. Topics include booster seats, vehicle mismatch, second generation airbags, lower extremity injuries caused by the knee bolster, spine and spinal cord injuries, and crash assessment for field triage. Pre-registration is required.  Contact Tim Kerns at (410) 328-4244
In lieu of annual CIREN Conferences, regular           quarterly meetings were instituted in May of 2000. 
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Third               Annual CIREN Conference - October 28, 1999              San Diego Paradise Point Resort              San Diego, California

Second Annual               CIREN Conference - September 15, 1998              University of Michican Medical Center               Ann Arbor, Michigan

First Annual               CIREN Conference - October 20,1997              University of Michigan Medical Center               Ann Arbor, Michigan

**CIREN           Electronic Cases**          The CIREN database consists of multiple discrete fields of data concerning           severe motor vehicle crashes, including crash reconstruction and medical           injury profiles. Personal and location identifiers and highly sensitive           medical information have been removed from the public files to protect           patient confidentiality. CIREN cases, extending back to 1996, for which           coding and quality control have been completed, are available for public           viewing. Additional cases are released to the public as they become           available.

**What           CIREN is all about**          CIREN is a collaboration of research on crashes and injuries at ten           Level 1 Trauma Centers linked by a computer network. Researchers can           review data and share expertise, which could lead to the design of safer           vehicles. Seven of these Centers are funded by NHTSA, and one by Honda.           The Froedtert Hospital & Medical College of Wisconsin CIREN Center           is self-funded. Level 1 Trauma Centers are traditionally "teaching"           institutions associated with a university.
**The NHTSA               CIREN Program Report 2002, DOT HS 809 564**These two reports provide descriptions               of the NHTSA/CIREN Network, each of the CIREN centers, the research               teams, and their work. These two reports summarize the contributions               to auto safety produced by CIREN center researchers. - PDF                   version 
**The               NHTSA CIREN Program Report 2001, DOT HS 809 377**
**Bibliography           of Publications and Presentations of CIREN Centers**

The CIREN Centers and their academic             partners are:

Children's             National Medical Center, Washington, D.C. - George Washington             University 

National             Study Center for Trauma & EMS / R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma             Center, Baltimore, Maryland - University of Maryland 

             New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey - University             of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey

             William Lehman Injury Research Center, Miami, Florida - University             of Miami

University             of Michigan Health System Program for Injury Research & Education,             Ann Arbor, Michigan - University of Michigan Transportation Research             Center 

Harborview             Injury Prevention & Research Center, Seattle, Washington -             University of Washington 

San Diego County Trauma             System, San Diego, California - University of California 

Mercedes-Benz             CIREN Center, Birmingham, Alabama - the University of Alabama             at Birmingham 

Honda             Inova Fairfax Hospital CIREN Center, Falls Church, Virginia

             The Froedtert             Hospital & Medical College of Wisconsin CIREN Center

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