Allison E. Curry, PhD, MPH

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Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Director of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Senior Scientist, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Associate Scholar, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Leader, Young Driver Thrust, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Senior Fellow, Center for Public Health Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Center Investigator, Penn Injury Science Center, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Pediatrics

Contact information
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Center for Injury Research and Prevention
2716 South St, 13th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Office: 267-273-6830
Education:
B.A. (Biological Anthropology, Pre-medicine)
Northwestern University, 1998.
M.P.H. (Epidemiology)
University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health, 2001.
Ph.D. (Epidemiology)
Emory University School of Public Health, 2007.
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Selected Publications

Gaw CE, Curry AE, Osterhoudt KC, Helwig S, Wood JN, Dykstra HK, Corwin DJ: Identifying fatal pediatric poisonings: A comparison of child death review, poison center, and death certificate data Poster presentation. Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Toronto, ON May 2024.

Sartin EB, Webb MS, Labows CG, Myers RK, Yerys BE, McDonald CC, Curry AE: Caregivers' perspectives on use of and need for driving resources for their autistic adolescent. Autism in Adulthood 6(1): 86-94, Mar 2024.

Zullo AR, Khan MA, Pfeiffer MR, Margolis SA, Ott BR, Curry AE, Bayer TA, Riester MR, Joyce NR: Non-benzodiazepine hypnotics and motor vehicle crash risk among older adults: A sequential target trial emulation American Journal of Epidemiology Page: In press, Mar 2024.

Gaw CE, Metzger KB, Pfeiffer MR, Yerys BE, Boyd RC, Corwin DJ, Curry AE: Driver’s licensure and driving outcomes among adolescents with mood disorders. JAMA Network Open Page: In press, Mar 2024.

Riester MR, D’Amico AM, Khan MA, Joyce NR, Pfeiffer MR, Margolis SA, Ott BR, Curry AE, Bayer TA, Zullo AR: Changes in the burden of medications that may impair driving among older adults before and after a motor vehicle crash. Journal of the American Geriatric Society 72(2): 444-455, Feb 2024.

Metzger KB, O’Malley L, Pfeiffer MR, Sartin EB, Curry AE: Facilitating use of statewide integrated traffic safety data to foster multisector collaboration. Poster presentation American Public Health Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA Nov 2023.

Walshe EA, Elliott MR, Cheng S, Romer D, Curry AE, Grethlein D, Gonzales AK, Winston FK : Driving skills at licensure predict time to first crash in newly licensed young drivers. Pediatrics 152(5): e2022060817, Nov 2023.

Sartin EB, Metzger KB, Curry AE, Pfeiffer MR, O’Malley L, Mansfield, JA: Socioeconomic disparities in child restraint selection and variation in child passenger safety information sources. Oral presentation. Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine’s annual conference, Indianapolis, IN Oct 2023.

Sartin EB, Metzger KB, Curry AE, O’Malley L, Pfeiffer MR, Mansfield J: Sociodemographic disparities in child restraint selection and variation in child passenger safety information sources Accident Analysis and Prevention 188(1): 107094, Aug 2023.

Pfeiffer MR, Metzger KB, Curry AE: Promoting transportation safety and equity efforts through innovative data integration, sharing, and collaboration. Oral presentation. Traffic Records Forum Annual Conference, Nashville, TN Jul 2023.

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