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Flaura K. Winston, MD PhD

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Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)
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Department: Pediatrics
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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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33 University of Pennsylvania, 1983.
21 8 MSE 1b (Bioengineering) c
33 University of Pennsylvania, 1984.
21 a Ph.D. 1b (Bioengineering) c
33 University of Pennsylvania, 1989.
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33 University of Pennsylvania, 1990.
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Description of Research Expertise

1fe I am a board-certified pediatrician, a doctorally-trained biomechanical engineer and a public health researcher, who conducts research at the interface of child and adolescent health, injury, engineering and behavioral science. My focus is on addressing the leading cause of death and acquired disability in children and adolescents: traffic crashes. My work spans prevention of teen driver crashes, child passenger safety and secondary prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder after injury.
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Selected Publications

19d Nalaka Gooneratne, Rachel McGarrigle, and Flaura Winston (Eds.): Academic Entrepreneurship for Medical & Health Scientists. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics. http://repository.upenn.edu/ace; ISBN:1734860006, 9781734860009 (eds.). January 2020.

122 M Pauly, F Winston, M Naylor, K Volpp, LR Burns, R Muller, D Asch, R Werner, B Desai, K Chaiyachati, B Chartock: Seemed Like a Good Idea: Alchemy Versus Evidence-based Approaches to Healthcare Management Innovation. ISBN: 9781009004534 77 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009004534. Pauly, M (eds.). Cambridge University Press, July 2022.

35 Bartek, V a Ferro, D c Winston, F 34 Kessel, M: Accessible Training for Academic 27 Clinicians and Researchers to Address 6e the Need for Academic Entrepreneurs. Nature Biotechnology 42: 1618-1620, October 2024.

79 EA Walshe, MR Elliott, S Cheng, D Romer, AE Curry, D Grethlein, AK Gonzalez, 81 FK Winston: Driving skills at licensure and time to first crash. Pediatrics 152(5), November 2023.

13e S Kelleher, M Powell, A Gonzalez, S Cheng, N Koepke, E Walshe, J Millner, J Fischer, C Schlotter, F Winston, A Fiks: Testing a New Care Model: Implementing a Virtual Driving Assessment in Primary Care. Annals of Family Medicine 22(4): 357, 2024.

14c EA Walshe, TPL Roberts, C Ward McIntosh, FK Winston, D Romer, W Gaetz : An event‐based magnetoencephalography study of simulated driving: Establishing a novel paradigm to probe the dynamic interplay of executive and motor function. Human Brain Mapping 2023.

12c Winston, Flaura K. Kassam-Adams, Nancy. Garcia-Espana, Felipe. Ittenbach, Richard. Cnaan, Avital.: Screening for risk of persistent posttraumatic stress in injured children and their parents. JAMA 290(5): 643-9, Aug 6 2003.

165 Walshe, E.A., Romer, D., Kandadai, V. and Winston, F.K.: A Novel Health-Transportation Partnership Paves The Road For Young Driver Safety Through Virtual Assessment: Article describes a virtual driving assessment tool for young drivers. Health Affairs 39(10): 1792-1798, October 2020.

11b Walshe EA, Romer D, Wyner AJ, Cheng S, Elliott MR, Zhang R, Gonzalez AK, Oppenheimer N, Winston FK.: Licensing Examination and Crash Outcomes Postlicensure in Young Drivers. JAMA Netw Open 5: e228780, Apr 2022.

129 Hunter RB, Winston FK, Dehel P, Oh K, Nicklas J, Hartung H.: SPRINTing to Innovation: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Strategic Approach to Discovering Its Untapped Innovation Potential. Acad Med 96: 534-539, Apr 2021.

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