Flaura Koplin Winston

Flaura Koplin Winston, M.D., Ph.D., is the scientific director and founder of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Winston holds a Distinguished Chair in the Department of Pediatrics at CHOP and serves as the Scientific Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies (CChIPS). Her research includes improving child passenger safety, preventing teen and young driver crashes, and addressing posttraumatic stress after injury, a field where medicine, engineering and public health intersect. Dr. Winston’s work has led to patents and a startup company, Diagnostic Driving, Inc., which provides virtual driving assessments to corporate fleets and universities and is being used in driver licensing centers in the state of Ohio.