Institute of Medicine
George Adkins Professor of Pediatrics
University of Washington School of Medicine
Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH is currently The Children's Hospital Guild Association Endowed Chair in Pediatrics and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology in the University of Washington School of Public Health, Vice-Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Head of the Division of General Pediatrics. He is Editor of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Dr. Rivara's current research interests include prevention of intimate partner violence, reducing alcohol related trauma, determining the long term outcome of children with traumatic brain injury, and studying the effectiveness of trauma systems in the care of pediatric and adult trauma patients. He served as founding director of the Harborview Injury and Research Center in Seattle for 13 years, founding president of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, and his contributions to the field have spanned 30 years. He has received numerous honors including the Charles C. Shepard Science Award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Public Health Association, Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section Distinguished Career Award, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Injury and Poison Prevention, Physician Achievement Award. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine Section 09 for public health, biostatistics, and epidemiology and serves on the Board of Children, Youth and Families of the Institute of Medicine/ National Research Council. Dr. Rivara received his MD from the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine.