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The four day symposium
will examine all aspects of safety in motor racing from a scientific
angle. Around 100 delegates are expected to attend.
They include
FIA Institute fellows and research group members, Chief Medical
Officers from all the major FIA Championship
events and other US championships, international motor sport
doctors, and various motor sport safety experts. The ICMS
is an association of motor sport doctors and many of the
fellows of the FIA institute are also ICMS members.
The delegates
will be introduced to the Symposium with a special welcome from Father Phil DeRea
representing the Vatican.
The conference itself will be split into four sessions with
talks led by chief medical officers and other advisors working
in motor sport.
FIA Institute advisor Peter Wright, who is also head of the FIA Safety
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Commission, will
give an overview of the work of the
FIA Institute to date. Gary Hartstein MD and Dr Jean Duby will
talk about the FIA
Institute medical training initiative and the medical facilities
at the Paul Ricard circuit. F1 race director Charlie Whiting
will be joined by Terry Trammel MD and Institute advisor Andrew
Mellor to talk about new developments in single seat car safety.
Other seminars include looking at new developments in high-speed impact barriers,
insurance and liability in motor sport medicine and the development of the FIA
youth helmet standard.
The
symposium will be followed by the FIA Chief Medical Officers’ Seminar on
Sunday January 15, 2006. This seminar involves the Chief Medical Officers of
the Formula One World Championship, World Rally Championship, World Touring Car
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