Mary Pat McKay

Faculty Appointments:

Associate ProfessorEmergency Medicine
Director,Center for Injury Prevention

Degrees:

BA, Yale University, 1986
MD, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1990
MPH, University of Pittsburgh, 2002

Residency Training:

The George Washington University

Special Interests:

Trauma Care
Traffic Safety
Ethics in Emergency Medicine

Certifications:

Diplomate, American Board of Emergency Medicine, 1999
Fellow, American College of Emergency Physicians, 2002

Selected Publications:

McKay MP, Jolly BT. A Retrospective Review of Air Bag Deaths. Acad Emerg Med 1999 6:708-714.
McKay MP, Curtis LA. Car Safety Seats: Do Doctors Know Enough? Am J Emerg Med 2002;20:32-34.
McKay MP, Coben JH. Attitudes of Novice Teen Drivers and Their Parents About Pennsylvania's Graduated Driver Licensing Program: A Focus Group Analysis. Traffic Inj Prev 2002;3(4):257-261.
McKay MP. Commentary: Emergency Physicians and Emerging Technologies: Special Crash Investigations.(NHTSA Notes). Ann Emerg Med. 2003;41(4):758-579
McKay MP, Curtis L. Kids in Cars * Keeping Them Safe at Every Age. Contemp Peds. 2003;20(9):65-81.
McKay, MP, Vaca, FG. Commentary: Pedestrian Roadway Fatalities: Profiling the Problem. (NHTSA Notes) Ann Emerg Med. 2003;42(4):480-482.
McKay MP. Commentary: "You Drink, You Drive, You Lose;" Reaching the Target Audience is Not Enough .NHTSA Notes, Ann Emerg Med. 2004;44(2):155-6.
SAEM Ethics Committee: Schmidt TA, Salo D, Hughes JA, Abbott JA, Geiderman JM, Johnson CX, McClure KB, McKay MP, Razzak JA, Schears RM, Solomon RC. Confronting the Ethical Challenges to Informed Consent in Emergency Medicine Research. Acad Emerg Med. 2004;11(10): 1082-1089
SAEM Ethics Committee: Schmidt TA, Abbott JA, Geiderman JM, Hughes JA, Johnson CX, McClure KB, McKay MP, Razzak JA, Salo D, Schears RM, Solomon RC. The Ethical Debate on Practicing Procedures on the Newly Dead. Acad Emerg Med. 2004;11(9): 962-966
McKay MP, Vaca FG. Commentary: Supersized Vans: A Supersized Problem. NHTSA Notes. Acad Emerg Med. 2004;44(6):657-659.
McKay MP. Can the Car Tell Us Who Needs The Trauma Team? Editorial. Ann Emerg Med 2005;45:51-2
McKay MP. Novice Teen Drivers and Crashes * Just How Worried Should We Be And What Should We Do About it? NHTSA Notes. Ann Emerg Med 2005;45(6): 639-642.
McKay MP, Fitzharris M, Fildes B. Driver Injury Patterns in the United States and Australia: Does Beltwearing or Air Bag Deployment Make a Difference? 43rd Annual Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine; 1999 Sep 20-21, Barcelona, Spain. Barrington (IL): Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine;1999.
McKay MP, Coben JH, Larkin GL. Driving Beliefs And Behaviors Of Novice Teen Drivers And Their Parents: Implications For Teen Driver Crash Risk. Annual Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. 2003 Sept 22-24, Lisbon, Portugal. Barrington (IL): Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine;2003.

Other Information:

Currently serving on the Board of Directors, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, and as the Chair of the Trauma Care and Injury Control Committee, American College of Emergency Physicians.