Joel Stitzel

Dr. Stitzel has worked in Injury Biomechanics for 18 years. He received a BS in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Virginia Tech, an MS in Biomedical Engineering from the Medical College of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2003. Dr. Stitzel’s expertise is in the prediction, mitigation, and prevention of trauma in automotive, sports, and military applications, and has published over 145 peer-reviewed journal articles relating to injury biomechanics. He is currently Chair of Wake Forest University School of Medicine’s Biomedical Engineering Department and the Associate Head of the VT-WFU School of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Stitzel serves as the President of the AAAM (Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine). He is the engineering Co-PI of the Wake Forest – Virginia Tech Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) center, and was the founding PI and now co-PI of the Global Human Body Models Consortium (GHBMC) Integration Center.