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Russ Fine, PhD, MSPH
ICRC Director and Principal Investigator
SCIB Director and Principal Investigator
Professor of Medicine, UAB School of Medicine
Professor of Health Care Organization and Policy, UAB School
of Public Health
Dr. Russ Fine, an injury epidemiologist/biostatistician by training, is the founding director and principal investigator of the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Injury Control Research Center (UAB ICRC). He supervises and directs the UAB ICRC's overall operations and has final responsibility for decisions regarding program, management, fiscal, and policy-related matters. Click here to learn more. |
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Jay Goldman, DSc, PE
ICRC Associate Director for Research and Scientific Oversight
SCIB Assistant Director and Co-Principal Investigator
Distinguished Service Professor and Dean Emeritus, UAB School of Engineering
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor of Health Services Administration
Dr. Jay Goldman, Distinguished Service Professor and Dean Emeritus of the UAB School of Engineering, is ICRC's acting associate director for research and scientific oversight. He is also Co-Principal Investigator of SCIB. Click here to learn more. |
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John Bolland, PhD
Director and Senior Research Social Scientist, Institute for Social Science Research (2000-2005)
ICRC Senior Scientist and Director, Violence Prevention Core, UAB (2002-present)
Associate Professor, Department of Health Behavior, UAB-SOPH (2005-present
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Dr. John Bolland, ICRC Senior Scientist and Director of the
ICRC Violence Prevention Core, has a long research history
in investigating social problems. His research has focused
on violence prevention in inner cities; the homeless; and adolescents,
as well as other social topics. Since 1988, he has been Principal
Investigator on grants funded at a total of more than $14.8
million, including four current research projects on inner
city youth, inner city violence and strengthening neighborhood
investment. Click here to
learn more.
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David Brown, PhD
Director, UAB ICRC Prevention of Transportation-Related Injuries Research Domain
Director of Development - CARE Research and Development Laboratory, UA
Dr. David Brown has a lengthy and distinguished scientific
reputation as a researcher, with an emphasis on factors involved
in transportation-related injuries and other law-enforcement
related computer applications. He designed and developed the Critical
Analysis Reporting Environment (CARE), which won the National
Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) Administrator's
Award in 1995, for innovation for its information mining capabilities. Click
here to learn more.
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Dale S. Feldman, PhD
Director, UAB ICRC Acute Care, Disability and Rehabilitation Research Domain
Professor, UAB School of Engineering
Dr. Feldman has served on the School of Engineering faculty, in Biomedical Engineering, since 1986 and previously was a member of the College of Engineering faculty, Bioengineering division, at Texas A&M. He has published more than 250 technical articles and reports. Dale Feldman's research interests include: biomaterials enhanced regeneration, tissue engineering, wound healing enhancement and characterization, tissue state and wound healing assessment, and degradable polymers for drug delivery systems and tissue scaffolds. Click
here to learn more.
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Research Support Services
The ICRC’s Research Support Services Unit provides
technical guidance and assistance in research design, data
collection, analysis, and interpretation to the Center’s
research projects. The three scientists who comprise the
Unit – Dr. Debra McCallum, who heads it, Dr. Kathleen
Bolland and Dr. Alfred Bartolucci – have experience
and expertise in a wide range of research methods and designs
and data analysis, involving both laboratory and field research,
and in using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
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Debra McCallum, PhD
Head, ICRC Research Support Services Unit
Interim Director, Institute for Social Science Research
Senior Research Social Scientist, Institute for Social Science Research
Director, Capstone Poll, Institute for Social Science Research
Dr. Debra McCallum, a Senior Research Social Scientist at the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Alabama, has a long and successful record of research, including two funded grant projects currently under way. She earned her BA magna cum laude in Psychology at Furman University, then earned both the MA and PhD in Social Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She began her professional academic career as an assistant professor of psychology at UAB, serving as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the department for three years. In 1989, she assumed the duties of a Research Social Scientist at the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Alabama, and currently serves as both Interim Director and Senior Research Social Scientist at the Institute. She has dozens of peer-reviewed publications, technical reports and conference presentations to her credit, and maintains membership in several professional organizations in public opinion research and psychology. She is the head of the ICRC Research Support Services Unit.
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Kathleen A. Bolland, PhD
Research Support Services (RSS) Unit member, UAB Injury Control Research Center
Director, ICRC Oversight and Evaluation Unit
B.S.W. Program Chair, School of Social Work
Long before earning her PhD in social work at the University of Alabama in 1998, Dr. Bolland worked in research, testing, evaluation and assessment in Ohio, Kansas and Alabama. Dr. Bolland was the Assistant/Associate Research Educational Psychologist for the Evaluation and Assessment Laboratory at UA for 14 years prior to beginning an assistant professorship with the UA School of Social Work upon completion of her PhD. She has been the evaluator on several funded grants. Her extensive experience with research and evaluation makes her an extremely valuable resource for ICRC scientists, whom she assists as a Research Support Services Unit member.
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Alfred A. Bartolucci, PhD
Research Support Services (RSS) Unit member, UAB Injury Control Research Center
Senior Scientist, UAB ICRC
Professor and former Chair, UAB Department of Biomathematics and Biostatistics
Professor, UAB School of Nursing
Professor, UAB Department of Psychology
Dr. Alfred Bartolucci brings more than 30 years of expertise and experience with biostatistics to his role in the ICRC Research Support Services Unit. A former chair of UAB's Department of Biomathematics and Biostatistics, Dr. Bartolucci has published well over 100 articles in prestigious academic journals, as well as dozens of abstracts, paper presentations and consultancies. He was awarded the PhD in statistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1975, after receiving a BA in Mathematics at the College of the Holy Cross and an MA in Mathematics from the Catholic University of America. He is a member of several professional and scholarly organizations, including the American Statistical Association, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Society for Clinical Trials. His areas of research interest include Clinical Trials, Survival Analysis, Bayesian Analysis, and Epidemiology.
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