Megan Fisher Thiel is a Clinical Research Associate with the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) and the Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies (CChIPS).
Megan Fisher Thiel currently serves as a Research Associate at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) and the Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies (CChIPS) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She brings over 20 years of experience in research coordination and management to the position, where she works to improve and promote operational data collection, analyses, and management.
Prior to joining CHOP, Megan held a joint fellowship at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy and managed several studies at the Rutgers Center for Behavioral Health Services & Criminal Justice Research. She has additional analytical experience with the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) and the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS).
MPH, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
BS, Rutgers University
Clinical Research Associate, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Ford CA, Mirman JH, Garcia-Espana FJ, Fisher Thiel MC, Friedrich E, Salek EC, Jaccard J. Effect of Primary Care Parent-Targeted Interventions on Parent-Adolescent Communication About Sexual Behavior and Alcohol Use: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open, 2019 Aug 2;2(8):e199535.
Weiss E, Fisher Thiel MC, Sultana N, Hannan C, Seacrist T. Advanced Driver Assistance Systems for Teen Divers: Teen and Parent Impressions, Perceived Need, and Intervention Preferences.Traffic Inj Prev. 2018 Feb 28;19(sup1):S120-S124.
Hannan C, Palumbo AJ, Fisher Thiel MC, Weiss E, Seacrist T. Advanced driver assistance systems for teen drivers: A national survey of teen and parent perceptions.Traffic Inj Prev. 2018;19(sup2):S84-S90.
Mirman JH, Curry AE, Winston FK, Fisher Thiel MC, Pfeiffer MR, Rogers R, Elliott MR, Durbin DR. Parental Influence on Driver Licensure in Adolescence: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Health Psychol. 2017 Mar;36(3):245-254.