*From:* COIPP [mailto:COIVPPEC@LISTSERV.AAP.ORG] *On Behalf Of *Bonnie Kozial *Sent:* Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:12 AM *To:* COIVPPEC(a)LISTSERV.AAP.ORG *Subject:* Call for Abstracts - AAAM Student Symposium - Deadline for Abstract Submission April 1, 2012**** ** ** TO: Council on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention**** **** FROM: Bonnie Kozial for Gary Smith, MD, DrPH**** **** RE: Call for Abstracts - AAAM Student Symposium ******************************************** ** ** Dear colleagues, the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM) is inviting submission of abstracts of prospective presentations for the 2012 AAAM Student Research Symposium. Undergraduate, graduate, and medical students are eligible to submit abstracts. The goal of the symposium is to give students early in their careers the opportunity to present their work in progress in a stress-free atmosphere to an experienced research audience composed of AAAM members from diverse disciplines. The Student Research Symposium seeks presentations on works in progress, methods papers, and smaller studies. Abstracts are sought in all areas of traffic related injury prevention and control including automotive medicine, behavioral research science, biomechanics, engineering, epidemiology, statistics, education, law, and public policy. visit www.aaam.org for more information. *The deadline for abstract submission is April 1, 2012.* The Student Research Symposium will be held on Sunday, October 14, as part of AAAM’s 56th Annual Scientific Conference to be held October 14-17, 2012 in Seattle, Washington. The student presenters of all abstracts selected for presentation at the Student Symposium will have the registration fee to the main conference waived and will receive a travel stipend of $500 to attend the conference. -- Phyllis Orrick Communications Director Safe Transportation Research and Education Center<http://www.safetrec.berkeley.edu>(SafeTREC) University of California Transportation Center <http://www.uctc.net> (UCTC) Institute for Urban and Regional Development <http://www.iurd.berkeley.edu>(IURD) 2614 Dwight Way UC Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720-7374 510-643-1779 @transsafe <https://twitter.com/#!/transsafe> @californiaUTC <https://twitter.com/#!/CaliforniaUTC> @IURDBerkeley <https://twitter.com/#!/IURDBerkeley>