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Flaura Koplin Winston
Flaura Koplin Winston, MD PhD
Flaura Koplin Winston, MD PhD

Flaura Koplin Winston, MD PhD is a board-certified pediatrician, a doctorally-trained biomechanical engineer and a public health researcher, who conducts research at the interface of child and adolescent health, injury, engineering and behavioral science. She is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and serves as the Scientific Director of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Director the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, the Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies (CChIPS), and Director of a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates site.

Dr. Winston currently serves as an Associate Editor of Injury Prevention, has served on multiple US federal study sections, committees and advisory panels and held executive committee positions with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Secretariat for the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention. For her work, Dr. Winston has received funding from federal, state, corporate and non-profit foundation sources, with major funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the State of Pennsylvania and State Farm Insurance Companies.

She has received awards from a range of organizations which reflect her interdisciplinary background: American Society of Mechanical Engineers; American Academy of Pediatrics; the Governor’s Highway Safety Association; American Philosophical Society; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; University of Pennsylvania; US Maternal and Child Health Bureau; Academy Health; Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAHO) & National Quality Forum; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; American Public Health Association; American Institute of Medical and Bioengineering; and Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars. Dr. Winston’s work is published in peer- reviewed journals and conference proceedings in the area of traffic injury (teen driver safety, child occupant protection and promotion of recovery after child injury).

She was the Philadelphia Jewish Voice's founding Raising a Mensch editor.

 She can be contacted at winston @ pjvoice.com

Articles
August 2009: After the Injury
February 2009: Madoff, Financial Challenges and Your Children
December 2008: Eight nights and eight stories
July 2008: Teach The Wisdom Of Yahrzeit
November 2007: How Pets Can Teach Your Kids Humanity
August 2007: When Children Visit Friends Who Are Ill
July 2007: Teaching Our Children the Mitzvah of Hospitality
June 2007: Embracing The Transition To An Empty Nest
March 2007: Can I Have The Keys?
February 2007: Jerusalem and Our Children: Maintaining Links in the Chain of Generations
January 2007: Keeping Up With Child Safety
December 2006: Top Eight Chanukah Gift Ideas For Children
December 2006: Portrait of an Israeli Humanist, Meir Goyichrach
November 2006: Strengthen Him So He Does Not Fall
October 2006: Redefining Success
September 2006: The First Day Of School
August 2006: Parenting During War
August 2006: Mazel Tov! It's a girl
July 2006: Jews, Academic Achievement and Perfectionism
April 2006: The Four Parents



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