Emergency Medicine’s Dr. Federico Vaca has been appointed to the Committee on Operator Education and Regulation, a multidisciplinary committee that is part of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies.
The Operator Education and Regulation Committee, a think tank composed of accomplished academics, physicians, and high level researchers focuses on “research on driving performance and the effectiveness of methods of educating, training, managing, licensing and regulating motor vehicle operators, with particular emphasis on novice teenage drivers.”
The appointment aligns precisely with Vaca’s scholarship aimed at understanding and preventing injury in populations like children, athletes, and Latinos. In that pursuit, he has concentrated on hazardous and harmful drinking and alcohol-impaired driving as a part of a larger traffic safety and injury epidemiology focus.
The home of the committee is the Transportation Research Board, whose mission "facilitates the sharing of information on transportation practice and policy by researchers and practitioners; stimulates research and offers research management services that promote technical excellence; provides expert advice on transportation policy and programs; and disseminates research results broadly and encouraged their implementation."
Dr. Federico Vaca is an Emergency Physician, Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Child Study Center, and a Senior Research Faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He also heads the Yale Department of Emergency Medicine’s Center for Injury Prevention and Control Research.