Consultants
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James R. Funk, PhD, PE
- Dr. Jim Funk has a PhD degree in Engineering and works in the fields of Biomechanics, Injury Causation Analysis, and Accident Reconstruction. His consulting practice currently focuses on, but is not limited to, Product Liability and General Negligence issues involving automobile collisions, pedestrian collisions, slips, trips and falls, railroad and industrial incidents, amusement park rides and other related issues.
- Dr. Funk joined BRC in 2002 after working as a researcher at the University of Virginia's Automobile Safety Laboratory with particular emphasis in lower extremity injuries. Since joining BRC, he has published research papers on head and neck injury tolerance, sideswipe collision reconstruction, pedestrian injuries, traffic casualty epidemiology, and occupant ejections in rollover crashes.
- Licensed Professional Engineer
- Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstruction (ACTAR)
- PhD Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, 2000
- MSE Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, 1997
- BSE Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, 1995
- Compressive Neck Injury and Its Relationship to Head Contact & Torso Motion During Vehicle Rollover
- The Epidemiology of Facial Fractures in Automotive Collisions
- Human Head and Neck Kinematics after Low Velocity Rear-End Impacts: Understanding "Whiplash"
- Validation and Application of a Methodology to Calculate Head Accelerations and Neck Loading