Matthew Rizzo, M.D. of University of Iowa, is Professor of Neurology, Engineering and Public Policy; Director of the Provost's university-wide Aging, Mind and Brain Initiative; Vice-Chair for Translational Research in Neurology; Director of the Division of Neuroergonomics (including instrumented vehicles and driving simulators); ad senior attending physician in the Memory Disorders Clinic. He has conducted research in driver attention and fitness to drive for two decades funded by the NIH, CDC and industry. Dr. Rizzo was the first to integrate high fidelity simulators into clinical settings and has developed some of the most advanced instrumented vehicles in experimental and naturalistic settings to study driver performance research.

Dr. Rizzo will discuss how the results of using cognitive tests, instrumented vehicles and driving simulators can help specify linkages between decline in key cognitive domains and crash risk.