Debra Houry, MD, MPH, Director -bio-
Emory University
dhoury@emory.edu
Dr. Debra Houry, MD, MPH, is Vice-Chair for Research and Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and in the Department of Behavioral Science and Health Education and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Rollins School of Public Health. She is currently the Director for the Center for Injury Control, Rollins School of Public Health and teaches several courses on violence and injury prevention at Emory. Her primary research interests are in the prevention of violence against women, mental health issues related to violence, and emergency care. She has been the Principal Investigator on two federally funded grants totaling 1.6 million dollars, one entitled "Computer based screening for Domestic Violence and Mental Health Symptoms", the other "Safety and Effectiveness of Computer screening for Domestic Violence Victims and Perpetrators". Dr. Houry has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on injury prevention and violence. Dr. Houry has been the recipient of several national awards, including the Jay Drotman Award, given annually by the American Public Health Association for the most outstanding young public health professional in the country (2002) and the first Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award from the Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma (2007). She serves on several national committees for the American College of Emergency Physicians, Society for Academic Emergency Physicians, and the Academy for Violence and Abuse. She is an Associate editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Shakiyla Smith, MPH, Deputy Director -bio-
Emory University
lrsmit3@emory.edu
Ms. Shakiyla Smith is a Senior Research Project Coordinator in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. In addition to her duties as Deputy Director, Ms. Smith manages several clinical and behavioral research studies in the Department of Emergency Medicine, including a study examining the effects of computer-based screening for intimate partner violence victimization in three urban emergency departments and the feasibility and effectiveness of early psychological intervention with recent trauma victims in the emergency department for the prevention of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Prior to joining Emory, she completed a two year fellowship at NCIPC's Division of Violence Prevention focused on youth violence prevention program evaluation and violence against women research. She also conducted primary research on exposure to community violence. Ms. Smith also has experience as a grant writer and organizational development consultant to non-profit organizations in the Philadelphia region where she raised more than $1 million in government, corporate, and private funding.

Natasha Obolensky, MPH, Senior Research Project Coordinator -bio-
Emory University
nobolen@emory.edu
Ms. Natasha Obolensky is a Senior Research Project Coordinator in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Natasha provides administrative support to the Emory Center for Injury Control (ECIC) and its faculty and leadership in the development and implementation of various violence and injury-related research projects and programs. She is responsible for preparing and distributing the ECIC’s quarterly newsletter, supervising ECIC Graduate Research Assistants, maintaining the ECIC’s library, and providing written support for faculty grant submissions and literature reviews. Prior to joining the School of Medicine, Natasha completed her Masters with the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in the Department of Behavioral Science and Health Education. Natasha has been involved with injury and violence prevention in her volunteer work for several years as well as in her coursework: evaluating a Safe Kids of DeKalb Program, creating curriculums and developing programs aimed at preventing sexual abuse and coping with intimate partner violence.

Vickie Howard, Administrative Assistant
vhoward@emory.edu

Lisa Dawson, MPH, Associate Co-Director for Outreach -bio-
Georgia Department of Community Health*, Injury Prevention Section
lddawson@dhr.state.ga.us
Ms. Lisa Dawson is Director of the Injury Prevention Section within the Division of Public Health at the Georgia Department of Community Health. Ms. Dawson has worked in public health and the injury prevention field for more than 13 years. Her roles at the state level include active participation in the Child Fatality Review, Chair of the Traffic Records Coordinating Committee, appointed Commissioner to theBrain and SpinalCord Injury Trust Fundbut also previouslyan Advisory Member for Domestic Violence Fatality Review Project, member of the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Georgia and member of the Georgia SAFE KIDS Coalition. Her focus in the last 3 years has been the unintentional injuries associated with child abuse and neglect and suicide prevention.

James Griffin Jr, PhD, Associate Co-Director for Outreach -bio-
Morehouse School of Medicine
jgriffin@msm.edu
James P. Griffin, Jr., PhD has been involved in behavioral health promotion, training, education, and research for thirty years. He has an earned doctorate in psychology with specialized training in behavior modification, school psychology, and community/organizational psychology. The last sixteen years of his career have focused on the prevention of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug and violence prevention. Dr. Griffin is faculty at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Griffin has directed a school-wide violence prevention program in a Metropolitan Atlanta public school as part of a six-university, Hamilton-Fish national consortium at George Washington University. Additionally, for the past five years he has served as the principal investigator for the Imani Project through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. He is presently principal investigator for the Atlanta Violence Prevention Capacity Building Project (ACBP). He has acted as the convener for a six-county initiative, the Metropolitan Atlanta Violence Prevention Partnership (MAVPP), since October, 2005.

Sheryl Heron, MD, MPH, Associate Director for Education -bio-
Emory University
sheron@emory.edu
Dr. Sheryl Heron, an Associate Professor and Associate Residency Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Assistant Dean for Medical Education and Student Affairs on the Grady Campus at Emory University. She was appointed by the Governor to the Georgia Commission on Family Violence and also serves on the Women's Resource Center to End Domestic Violence, the Domestic Violence Task Force in Dekalb County, the National Center for Injury Control Advisory Committee and the Public Health Committee of the American College of Emergency Physician's. She has worked with the Institute of Medicine on a report on educating health professionals on Family Violence. She is currently the co-Chair of the newly formed University wide Domestic Violence Working Group.

Arthur Kellermann, MD, MPH, Director Emeritus -bio-
Emory University
akell01@emory.edu
Arthur Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H., is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine. Until 2006, he served as founding Chair of the Emergency Medicine and founding director of the Center for Injury Control at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. Dr. Kellermann has published over 200 scientific papers on topics ranging from injury prevention to emergency cardiac care and public health. He holds several national awards for his research, including Emory University's "Scholar/Teacher" Award, and the John G. Wigenstein Award, the highest award given by the American College of Emergency Physicians. In 1999, Dr. Kellermann was elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and from 2001 to 2004, he co-Chaired the IOM Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance and then served on the IOM's Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System. From September 2006 to December 2007, he took a leave of absence from Emory to work on the professional staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in Washington DC. He returned to Emory in January 2008 to become the School of Medicine's first Associate Dean for Health Policy.

Scott Sasser, MD, Associate Director for International Programs -bio-
Emory University
ssasser@emory.edu
Scott Sasser, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine , Emory University School of Medicine and in the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Sasser is the Associate Director for International Programs for the Center for Injury Control, works as a consultant in the Division of Injury Response, in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and directs the department's International Health Fellowship. Dr. Sasser was the lead editor on the World Health Organization's (WHO) publication Prehospital Trauma Care Systems, a monograph designed to assist decision-makers in low and middle income countries develop basic prehospital trauma care systems; as an extension of this project, he currently sits on the WHO Trauma and Emergency Care Advisory Committee. Dr. Sasser is currently involved in projects in Kenya, Rwanda, and India, and is currently the recipient of funding from the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health to provide injury focused public health training to physicians in Mozambique and from the United States Agency for International Development to develop emergency medicine and emergency medical services in the Republic of Georgia.

Monica Swahn, PhD, Associate Director for Research -bio-
Georgia State University
mswahn@gsu.edu
Monica Swahn is an associate professor in the Institute of Public Health and the Partnership for Urban Health Research, Georgia State University. She was recently appointed as Associate Dean for Research for the university's College of Health and Human Sciences. She has published 30 publications related to youth violence, suicide and substance use prevention. Prior to joining the Institute, Dr. Swahn worked for the CDC for nine years. She was the Principal Investigator for the Youth Violence Survey which was administered to over 4,000 high school students and designed to assess the overlap among different forms of violent behaviors and she also served as the scientific officer (consultant) for many CDC funded cooperative agreements and grants including three Academic Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention.In 2006, Dr. Swahn was awarded the prestigious Dixie Snider fellowship in the Office of the Chief Science Officer, CDC.During this fellowship, Dr. Swahn contributed to agency-wide strategic goal and research priority planning and facilitated the preparation and implementation of new research objectives. She also provided assistance and consultations to scientific regulatory services and prepared measures, initiatives, and fiscal year targets for an internal organizational excellence management assessment tool.