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The ATSIP Executive Board

The Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP) has an Executive Board of elected officers, composed of members from the various regions of the United States, liaisons from federal agencies, and other national and international organizations.


Marty Pollock

President: Mr. Marty Pollock is a Supervisor in the Research Planning and Development Division of the Department of Safety Highway Patrol. He has been a Commissioned Officer for 23 years and has 9 years experience in electronic traffic records and information systems.
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Nils King

1st Vice President: Born and raised in Marion, Indiana, Nils King started his Law Enforcement Career with the Marion Police Department in 1975. During his career, Mr. King was patrol officer, Traffic Sergeant, Crash Reconstructionist,Breathalyzer Operator, Field Training Officer, and Shift Sergeant.
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Cynthia Burch

2nd Vice President: Cynthia Burch has been an epidemiologist at the University of Maryland’s National Study Center for Trauma and EMS (NSC) since 2005. Prior to that she was a Research Analyst the NSC and an epidemiologist at the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety in Georgia.
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Robert Scopatz

Secretary: Bob Scopatz has a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Columbia University. While working on his dissertation, he worked for the New York City Department of Transportation as a data analyst...
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Hadi Shirazi

Past President: Hadi Shirazi is designated as the statewide technical expert Highway safety Engineer for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development’s Hazard Elimination Program. He is working for the Departments for 22 years.
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At Large Members

A member-at-large is responsible for projects reaching common goals, identifies problems and oppertunities, sets goals, makes action plans, listens to and communicates officially with the executive board. Membership is open to any person, agency, company or organization that is involved with the collection, management, analysis, or use of transportation safety data.


Ward Vanlaar

Ward Vanlaar, Ph.D., is the Vice President Research of the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF). Dr. Vanlaar has M.A. degrees in statistics and criminology and a Ph.D. in transportation science.
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Timothy Kerns

Mr. Kerns has been a database engineer at the University of Maryland’s National Study Center for Trauma and EMS since 1990. During this time he has gained considerable experience in the manipulation and use of large datasets relating to motor vehicle crashes and injury.
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Kathleen Haney

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Angie Langanke

Angie (Schmit) Langanke is the Federal Programs Manager at Traffic Safety Analysis, Systems & Services, Inc. in the Columbus, Ohio area. She has spent 12 years at that company, holding varied titles and responsibilities.
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Cory Hutchinson

Cory Hutchinson currently serves as the Associate Director for the Highway Safety Research Group (HSRG) at Louisiana State University and the Coordinator of the Louisiana Traffic Records Coordinator Committee (LA TRCC).
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John Carrico

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Joanna Reed

Joanna Reed is a State Crash Data Specialist for the National Institute for Safety Research, Inc. (NISR), focusing on crash data research, coding, analysis, and quality control. more...

Allen Parrish

Allen Parrish is a Professor of Computer Science at The University of Alabama. He is also the Director of the Center for Advanced Public Safety (CAPS), a 75-person R&D organization dedicated to information technology applications to public safety and transportation safety.  more...

David Harkey

Mr. Harkey is the director of HSRC. He has more than 25 years of experience in the field of transportation safety research, including the past 18 with HSRC.  more...



Parliamentarian Members

Parliamentarian members are long term ATSIP officers/consultants that are designated to serve as experts of the body of rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings and other operations of ATSIP.


Ralph Zimmer

Ralph Zimmer

Ralph W. Zimmer was a professor at the Montana State University, Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics. He has been involved with ATSIP and served as Parliamentarian for many years.

Jim Davis

Jim Davis

James W. Davis is currently an Epidemiologist with the NM Department of Health, Epidemiology and Response Division, focused on substance abuse issues. Prior to that, he spent most of thirty years as an employee of the University of New Mexico doing analysis of a wide variety of traffic safety data under contract to the NM Traffic Safety Bureau. Mr. Davis was a voting member of the ATSIP Board for ten years (1999-2008) and currently serves as one of two parliamentarians.


Treasurer

The treasurer is a non-voting member of the ATSIP Board.

Ralph Zimmer

Robert Rasmussen

Bob Rasmussen currently serves as a Program Administration Manger III in the Traffic Engineering Division at the Virginia Department of Transportation. He has thirty-six years of progressive experience in various disciplines within the division.  more...

 

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Class of 2015

Allen Parrish (Alabama) University of Alabama- parrish@cs.ua.edu

Joanna Reed (Montana) National Institute for Safety Research (NISR) - joannar@nisrinc.com

David Harkey (North Carolina) University of North Carolina- harkey@hsrc.unc.edu



Class of 2014

Cory Hutchinson (Louisiana) Louisiana State University – cory@lsu.edu

Angie Langanke (Ohio) Traffic Safety Analysis, Systems & Services, Inc. - aschmit@tsass.com

John Carrico (Kentucky) State Police - johnr.carrico@ky.gov



Class of 2013

Ward Vanlaar (Ottawa, Canada) Traffic Injury Research Foundation – wardv@tirf.ca

Timothy Kerns (Maryland) University of Maryland - tkerns@som.umaryland.edu

Kathleen Haney (Minnesota) Department of Public Safety – kathleen.haney@state.mn.us

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