Faculty

Frederick P Rivara

Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
Adjunct Professor, Pediatric Dentistry
Children's Hospital Guild Association Endowed Chair in Pediatrics Health Outcomes Research, Pediatrics
Vice Chair, Academic Affairs, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics

206-744-9449

Education

MD University of Pennsylvania, 1974
MPH University of Washington, 1980

Contact

206-744-9449

Box 359960
401 Broadway
Seattle, WA 98122

Bio

Dr. Rivara served as founding director of the Harborview Injury and Research Center in Seattle for 13 years, founding president of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, and his contributions to the field of injury control have spanned 30 years. He has received numerous honors including the Charles C. Shepard Science Award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Public Health Association, Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section Distinguished Career Award, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Injury and Poison Prevention, Physician Achievement Award, and the UW School of Public Health Distinguished Alumni Award. Rivara was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2005. Rivara is also a founding board member of the Washington State Academy of Science. He was one of the editors of WHO's report, World Report on Child Injury

Research Areas

Research Interests

His research interests have included the efficacy and promotion of bicycle helmets, prevention of pedestrian injuries, youth violence, the epidemiology of firearm injuries, intimate partner violence, interventions for alcohol abuse in trauma patients and the effectiveness of trauma systems in the care of pediatric and adult trauma patients. He continues as an active clinician, teacher, investigator, and advocate at the University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital.

Recent Publications (PubMed)

ComBat Harmonization With and Without Empirical Bayes Estimation for Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: a CARE4Kids Study.
(2026 May 6)
Res Sq
Onicas AI, Keleher F, Bickart KC, Donald CLM, Brown A, Cook L, Rivara FP, Gioia GA, Giza CC, Dennis EL
Fabricated references: a new threat to editorial integrity.
(2026 May 9)
Lancet 407(10541): 1765-1766
Bauchner H, Rivara FP
Firearm Storage, Weapon Carrying, and Suicide in the US Military.
(2026 Apr 1)
JAMA Netw Open 9(4): e268275
Simonetti JA, Rivara FP
Family Resilience and Mental and Physical Health Sequelae of Pediatric TBI in Youths.
(2026 Apr 1)
JAMA Netw Open 9(4): e269222
Zhou Z, Sullivan L, Qian R, Lu B, Sribnick EA, Smith GA, Phan KL, Langenecker SA, Rivara FP, Xiang H
Pediatric disability weights following injury based on patient-reported data from a multinational cohort.
(2026 Mar 21)
Eur J Pediatr 185(4):
Dipnall JF, Rivara FP, Ameratunga S, Lecky FE, Lyons RA, Harrison JE, Gabbe BJ
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