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(NHTSA) Administrator - Dr. Jeffrey W. Runge
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Administrator Dr. Jeffrey W. Runge is a nationally recognized physician expert in motor vehicle injury care and prevention. A researcher and educator in emergency medicine, he has focused on the area of injury prevention and control, with a particular interest in motor vehicle injuries. His passion for reducing injuries comes from being an emergency physician in North Carolina's busiest trauma center, treating over 30,000 injuries yearly, 10,000 of which are motor vehicle-related.

As NHTSA Administrator, Dr. Runge leads an agency of more than 600 employees with a $434 million annual budget (FY2003). The agency is responsible for reducing deaths, injuries and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes, regulating the motor vehicle industry, investigating safety defects in motor vehicles, setting and enforcing fuel economy standards, helping states an local communities reduce the threat of drunk drivers, promoting the use of safety belts, child safety seats and air bags, investigating odometer fraud, establishing and enforcing vehicle anti-theft regulations, and providing consumer information on motor vehicle safety topics.

Dr. Runge is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He served on the faculty of the Emergency Medicine Residency at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C. from 1984 until he was appointed as Administrator of NHTSA. His undergraduate degree is from University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. He received his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1981 and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Charlotte Memorial Hospital and Medical Center in 1984. He was most recently the Director of the Carolinas Center for injury Prevention and Control.

Dr. Runge was on the Trauma Care and Injury Control Committee and the Research Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is a past President of the North Carolina College of Emergency Physicians and the Speaker of the North Carolina Medical Society.

 

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