Heatstroke: Why It Happens & Potential Technology Solutions

Monday, April 3, 2023

2:15pm – 3:45pm PDT

Location: Ballroom 6B

Track Leader(s)

AO

Angela Osterhuber, M.Ed

Project Director
PA AAP / Traffic Injury Prevention Project
Media, PA
Joe Colella, Sr., CPST-I

Director of Child Passenger Safety
Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA)
Beaufort, SC

Moderator(s)

Cassandra Herring, CPSTI (she/her/hers)

Director of Child Occupant Protection
Safe Kids Worldwide
Silver Spring, MD

Handouts

Speaker(s)

Amber Rollins, BS (she/her/hers)

Director
Kids and Car Safety
Olathe, KS
AW

Alaine E. Wetli, MS (she/her/hers)

Research Engineer
The Transportation Research Center, OH
Laura Dunn, MPH, CPST-I

Highway Safety Specialist, Occupant Protection Division
NHTSA
Washington, DC
PR

Paula Raymond, MA (she/her/hers)

Senior Associate Scientist
Toxcel, LLC
Gainesville, VA

Explore the various vehicle occupant reminder systems. Whether your vehicle has a door logic, ultrasonic or radar-based technology, each is designed to reduce the chance of a pediatric vehicular heatstroke fatality. Discuss NHTSA’s research on Unattended Child Reminder Systems and the technologies available to detect occupants in a vehicle. (Meets Community Education requirement.)