Dr. Carl A. Soderstrom is an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a Senior Staff Member of the school’s National Study Center for Trauma & EMS (Baltimore, MD). For over 25 years he has conducted clinical and epidemiologic studies involving alcohol and other drugs and injury, particularly as they relate to vehicular crashes. This work began when he joined the faculty of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in 1978 and has continued with his activities at the National Study Center, which began in 1992.

Dr. Soderstrom has authored more than 100 papers, chapters, and other reports, many of which involve substance abuse and vehicular injury. In addition to other appointments, Dr. Soderstrom is on the Alcohol, Other Drugs and Transportation Committee of the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council, the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee, and the injury prevention committee of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. He was a member of the Surgeon General’s Work Group on Drunk Driving (1988) and NHTSA’s Partners in Progress Work Group (1995). In Maryland, Dr. Soderstrom has testified on numerous injury prevention bills and was a key individual in the passage of the state’s 0.10 and subsequent 0.08 g/dL illegal per se impaired driving statute. He has been the Principal Investigator on two National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism grants which studied the prevalence and identification of substance use disorders in trauma patients and subsequent use of brief intervention. In August, 2002, Dr. Soderstrom accepted the position of Associate Director, Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration’s Medical Advisory Board and Driver Safety Research Program.

Dr. Soderstrom continues to teach at the Shock Trauma Center and at the University of Maryland, in addition to working on research projects at the National Study Center. Dr. Soderstrom is also on the Associate Faculty of The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Health and Policy Managem