LEADERSHIP

Russ Fine, PhD, MSPH

SCIB Director and Principal Investigator
ICRC 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 and experience, has studied, conducted and directed injury control research for more than three decades at UAB. Dr. Fine along with Dr. Jay Goldman (UAB) and Dr. Barry Myers (Duke University) established the SCIB in 2000, intending for it to (a) serve as the biomechanics component of the UAB Injury Control Research Center and (b) develop its own research agenda that complements the ICRC’s research but is not supported by UAB’s ICRC grant awards. As with the ICRC, he supervises the SCIB’s overall operations and bears ultimate responsibility for decisions regarding programs, management, and fiscal and policy related matters. (Click here to learn more.)

Gerald McGwin, PhD

SCIB Associate Director for Research and Scientific Oversight

Professor and Vice Chairman UAB Department of Epidemiology

Gerald McGwin, Jr. is originally from Portland, Maine. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Vermont (1993) majoring in Education. He received an M.S. degree in Health and Social Behavior from the Harvard University School of Public Health (1995) and a Ph.D. degree in Epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (1998).

	Jeff Foster, MPH Associate Director for Administration and Finance Program Manager UAB-University Transportation Center (205) 996-6086 uabscib@ccc.uab.edu
	Barry Myers, MD, PhD, MBA - Duke University Senior Associate Dean and Anderson-Rupp Professor for Industrial Partnerships and Research Commercialization Pratt School of Engineering Director Duke Center of Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy Dr. Barry Myers is one of three Associate Directors of the Southern Consortium for Injury Biomechanics; he is also conducting research in two of the SCIB domain areas. His research examines the biomechanics of head impact neck injury, with the goal of injury prevention. He is considered by many as the preeminent researcher in this field worldwide, with more than 100 manuscripts and publications in the area.(Click here to learn more.)
	David F. Meaney, PhD- University of Pennsylvania Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Neurosurgery Dr. David Meaney is the director of SCIB's Research Domain One: Head and Brain Injury; working with Dr. Susan Margulies and Dr. Beth Winklestein, also at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Meaney is involved in generating the scientific foundation to be used to predict the probability of head injury as a result of motor vehicle crashes. This information will be used in the development and validation of SIMon. Enhancing the predictive capabilities of SIMon is the primary focus of Research Domain One.(Click here to learn more.)
	Jeff Crandall, PhD - University of Virginia Principal Investigator, UAB Injury Control Research Center Director, UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Dr. Jeff Crandall, Director of the UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics, has focused his research on the mechanisms of injury under impact loading conditions. The author of nearly 100 scholarly articles and more than 200 additional conference presentations, book chapters, abstracts and posters, Dr. Crandall was selected in 2005 for a United States Government Award for Engineering Excellence. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, where he serves as Chair of the Pedestrian Dummy Task Group.(Click here to learn more.)
	Albert I. King, PhD- Wayne State University Department Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Adjunct Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Director, Bioengineering Center Dr. Albert King is responsible for the computational side of the SCIB's SIMon validation project being conducted at Wayne State University. His research interests include brain injury finite element modeling, impact trauma, low back pains, and orthopaedic biomechanics. A Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dr. King has received many honors for his work, including a Smithsonian Medal in 1998, the IRCOBI Aldman Award in 2003, and the AAAM Award of Merit in 2004. He has published dozens of articles in peer reviewed journals, in biomechanics and other related fields.(Click here to learn more.)
	Bharat K. Soni, PhD – University of Alabama at Birmingham Chair and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UAB President, CSS, Inc. Dr. Bharat K. Soni earned a BS (1971) in statistics (minor: mathematics) and an MS (1974) in statistics (minor: operations research) at M.S. University in India; he earned his PhD (1978) in applied mathematics at the University of Texas in Arlington, TX. After finishing his PhD, he served as a program analyst at Sverdrup Technology, Inc., and adjunct associate professor in mathematical sciences at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. In 1987, he became an associate research professor in the computer science department at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, then was appointed associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University in 1988, where he achieved the rank of professor in 1994. In 1991 he became president of CSS Inc. in Starkville, MS, and in 2000 became Director of the Center for Computational Systems at the Engineering Research Center at MSU. In 2002, he was appointed Chair and Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. (Click here to learn more.)