Introduction

The William Lehman Injury Research Center, an internationally recognized research facility located at the Ryder Trauma Center at the University of Miami/Jackson Medical Center, was established to improve the treatment, prevention, and rehabilitation of traumatic injuries resulting from blunt trauma.

The center is named in honor of the lateCongressman William Lehman (1919-2005), who championed the cause of injury prevention. He is also credited for the initial congressional mandate, issued in 1991, for the center to improve automobile safety through research and education. By studying the relationship between how cars are built and driven and the injuries that result from car crashes the staff at the William Lehman Injury Research Center work within the new field of "safety science" to facilitate better treatment of car crash patients to improve the overall safety features of cars.

The Center's Crash Study Team- a multidisciplinary research team including experts in biomechanical engineering, trauma medicine, automobile crash investigation, computers and epidemiology- collects information about car crash injuries and what causes them. Through real time data collection and analysis, the team is able to precisely describe the care process from point of impact to clinical outcome particularly for those involved in severe frontal, side and rollover impact automobile crashes. More importantly, this research will help create techniques that can be used by trauma centers throughout the country to better understand car crash injuries-and ultimately save lives.

This website will assist those seeking information on vital areas of research that are conducted at the William Lehman Injury Research Center in addition to related programs.