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David L. McArthur, PhD MPH

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Senior Data Coordinator
Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center 
and
Adjunct Associate Professor
UCLA Department of Epidemiology

School of Public Health
Campus office: CHS 73-310


10911 Weyburn Avenue, Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90024-2884
phone: (310) 794-2706
fax: (310) 794-0787
e-mail: dmca@ucla.edu


AB Harvard College, PhD University of California Santa Barbara, MPH UCLA.

Present research interests include measurement, computing, trauma, especially brain injury.

After a career as an educator and a research psychologist with specialties in research design, statistics and psychometrics, McArthur now is a senior member of the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center...

...and is on the staff of a long-term multi-disciplinary study of traumatic brain injury....

Recent publications...
Kraus, J.F., McArthur, D.L., and Silberman, T.A. (1994). Epidemiology of mild brain injury. Seminars in Neurology, 14:1-7.
Kraus, J.F., Peek, C.L., McArthur, D.L., and Williams, A. (1994). The Effect of the 1992 California Motorcycle Helmet Use Law on motorcycle crash fatalities and injuries. Journal of the American Medical Association, 272:1506-1511.
Kraus, J.F., Blander, B., and McArthur, D.L. (1995). Incidence, risk factors and prevention strategies for work-related assault injuries. Annual Reviews of Public Health, 16:355-79.
Kraus, J.F., Brown, K.A., McArhur, D.L., Peek-Asa, C., Samaniego, L., Kraus, C., Zhou, L. (1996). Reduction of acute low back injury by use of back supports. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2:264-273.
Kraus, J.F., Hooten, E.G., Brown, K.A., Peek-Asa, C., Heye, C., and McArthur, D.L. (1996). Child predestrian and bicyclist injuries: results of community surveillance and a case-control study. Injury Prevention, 2:212-218.
Kraus, J.F., and McArthur, D.L. (1996). Epidemiology of violent injury in the workplace. Occupational Medicine: State of the Art Reviews, 11:201-218.
Kelly, D.F., Kordestani, R., Martin, N.A., Nguyen, T., Hovda, D.A., Bergsneider, M., McArthur, D.L., and Becker, D.P. (1996). Hyperemia following traumatic brain injury: Relationship to intracranial hypertension and outcome. Journal of Neurosurgery. 85:762-771.
Bergsneider, M., Hovda, D.A., Shalmon, E., Kelly, D.F., Vespa, P., Martin, N.A., Phelps, M.E., McArthur, D.L., Kraus, J.F., and Becker, D.P. (1997). Hyperglycolysis acutely following severe human traumatic brain injury: a positron emission tomography study. Journal of Neurosurgery. 86:241-251.
Clark, G.T., Sakai, S., Merrill, R., Flack, V.F., McArthur, D.L., and McCreary, C. (1997). Waking and sleeping temporalis EMG levels in chronic temporal-region tension-type headache patients. Journal of Orofacial Pain, 11:298-306.
Kraus, J.F., Schaffer, K.B., McArthur, D.L., and Peek-Asa, C. (1997). Epidemiology of acute low back injury in employees of a large home improvement retail company. American Journal of Epidemiology, 146:637-645.
Kraus, J.F., McArthur, D.L., and Peek-Asa, C. (1997). Distinguishing back-belt effects from other factors in the reduction of back injuries. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 3:238-239.
Peek-Asa, C.L., McArthur, D.L., and Kraus, J.F. (1997). Determining work-related fatal injuries on the California Death Certificate. American Journal of Public Health. 87:998-1002.
Kraus, J.F., and McArthur, D.L. Preventing low back pain in industry [letter] (1998). Journal of the American Medical Association, 280:1993. 
Cryer, H.G., Leong, K., McArthur, D.L., Demetriades, D., Bongard, F.S., Fleming, A.W., Hiatt, J.R., and Kraus, J.F. (1999). Multiple Organ Failure: By the time you predict it, it's already there. Journal of Trauma, 46:597-606.
DeVeauuse, N., Kim, K., Peek-Asa, C., McArthur, D.L., and Kraus, J.F. (1999). Driver compliance with stop signs at pedestrian crosswalks on a University campus. Journal of American College Health 47:269-274.
Kraus, J.F., and McArthur, D.L. (1999). Back supports and back injuries: a second visit to the Home Depot Cohort Study of low back injuries. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health 5:9-13.
McArthur, D.L., and Kraus, J.F. (1999). The specific deterrence of administrative per se laws in reducing drunk driving recidivism. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 16:68-75.
Peek-Asa, C., McArthur, D.L., and Kraus, J.F. (1999). The prevalence of non-standard helmet use and head injuries among motorcycle riders. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 31:229-33.
Kraus, J., Peek-Asa, C., McArthur, D. (2000) The independent effect of gender on outcomes following Traumatic Brain Injury: a preliminary investigation.  Neurosurgical Focus, 8(1):Article 5.
McArthur, D., Peek-Asa, C., Webb, T., Fisher, K., Cook, B., Browne, N., and Kraus, J. (2000).  Violence and its injury consequences in American movies: a public health perspective. Injury Prevention, 6:120-24.
McArthur, D.L., Peek-Asa, C., and Kraus, J.F. (2000) Hospitalized injuries before and after the 1994 Northridge, California earthquake. American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 18:361-66.
Kraus, J.F., McArthur, D.L. (2000) Epidemiology of brain injury. Chapter 1.  In: Head Injury, 4th ed. Cooper, P.R., Golfinos, J.G., eds.  New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 1-26.