Alicia ("Allie") Chavez, CAISS

EMS Highway Safety Liaison

Allie is NASEMSO’s EMS highway safety liaison, embedded at the District of Columbia Highway Safety Office in Washington, D.C. In this position, Allie establishes and maintains strong relationships with the D.C. Highway Safety Office and the Department of Health EMS Program, their leadership, federal partners, NASEMSO members, and state highway safety officers in the contiguous states. She is the subject matter expert in post-crash care, leveraging international, federal, and regional resources and training to support stakeholders in reducing the impact of crashes and other roadway-related incidents. She also supports D.C. in conducting various NHTSA assessments that will identify opportunities for collaboration and enhancement, among many other duties. Since 2018, Allie has been a senior project manager and project coordinator for the National Study Center for Trauma and EMS at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center of Shock, Trauma, and Anesthesiology Research in Baltimore. In that position, she was the senior project manager for the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Program funded by NHTSA. Her other projects were the Maryland State Occupant Protection Seatbelt Program, the Maryland Traffic Records project, and the Speeding, Aggressive and Reckless Driving Data Review. Allie earned a BS in Health Science from Towson University. She is a Certified Abbreviated Injury Scale Specialist. Allie joined ASMI in 2024.