Committee

Professor Edward Ogden PSM is the Principal Research Fellow – Clinical Trials, Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences, Swinburne University, a staff specialist in addiction medicine at Austin Hospital in Melbourne and the Addiction Medicine Specialist at Goulburn Valley Health in rural Victoria. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General…

Tara Casanova Powell is the Principal of Casanova Powell Consulting, an independent traffic safety research consulting firm; the CEO for ATSIP; and faculty for Impaired Driving Solutions under AllRise. Tara currently serves as the Chair for the Impairment in Transportation Committee for the Transportation Research Board and Chaired the 2021 TRB Drug-Impaired Driving Conference Planning…

Dr. Sjoerd Houwing has been active in the field of impaired driving for more than 20 years. He started as researcher at SWOV, the Dutch Road Safety Institute, where he obtained his PhD on estimating the risk of driving under the influence of drugs, alcohol and medicines in 2013. In 2017 he started as a…

Assistant Secretary Stig Bogstrand is a Professor II at the Department of Public Health Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Head of Section of Forensic Research, Dept. for Forensic Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, and leader of the Substance Use and Health Outcomes research group. He has been conducting research on alcohol and drug use…

PhD in Psychopharmacology. Dr. Eef Theunissen obtained her PhD in psychopharmacology in 2005 at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Ramaekers and Prof. Riedel. Her doctoral research focused on antihistamines’ sedating and stimulating effects, including their impact on driving and cognitive performance. From 2005 to…

Kathryn Stewart has carried out research and evaluation in the impaired driving field for more than three decades, especially in the area of underage drinking, policy implementation and evaluation, and knowledge dissemination. She is a past president of ICADTS and co-editor of the ICADTS Reporter, the quarterly newsletter of ICADTS. She was recently presented with…

Specialist doctor in Forensic Medicine. Full Professor of Forensic & Legal Medicine. Director of the National DUI Forensic Laboratory Ireland. Coroner/Senior Coroner. Barrister. Vice-President IALM. Immediate Past-President ECLM. Board member ICADTS. Fellow of RCPI, FFLM, ACLM and InstArb. Research interests/publications: forensic medicine, forensic death investigation, intoxicated driving, road traffic medicine.

Dr Evelyn Vingilis is Director of the Population and Community Health Unit and Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Research Professor with the Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario. Her two main research programs are injury prevention and control and mental health and…

PhD Dr. Gjerde is a senior researcher at the Department of Forensic Sciences at Oslo University Hospital in Norway. He earned his Ph.D. on driving under the influence of alcohol from the University of Oslo in 1988. He has authored or co-authored approximately 120 peer-reviewed articles and 80 reports, book chapters, and popular scientific articles,…