Dawn Comstock
Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, and Department of Pediatrics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado (Anschutz Medical Campus)
Dawn has a broad background in epidemiology and public health. She has established a successful line of research applying the methodologies of these fields to the topic of sports injury, having established and continued managing The National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance Study (High School RIO). Established in 2005 with a CDC, NCIPC New Investigator Grant Award and maintained annually since, this is the only surveillance system capturing sports-related injuries from a large national sample of US high school athletes longitudinally over the past decade. The resultant dataset now contains over 78,000 injury case reports captured during over 40,000,000 athletic exposures. She has extensive experience developing and maintaining a national sports injury surveillance system, utilizing the data from this surveillance system, as well as clinical data sources to both drive the development of and to evaluate interventions aimed at reducing the incidence and/or severity of injury among high school athletes.
