Conference Video Recap

  • Opening Session
  • Brian Swift, NASID Spokesperson; Chris Swonger, CEO of DISCUS and Responsibility.org; Darrin Grondel, Vice President, Government Relations and Traffic Safety, Responsbility.org; Jill InGrassia, Executive Director, Advocacy & Communications AAA; Jonathan Adkins Executive Director, GHSA; Darrin Grondel Vice President, Government Relations and Traffic Safety, Responsbility.org
  • NAISD Conference hosts Responsibility.org, AAA, and GHSA welcome everyone to the 1st NASID Conference. Brian Swift, NASID Spokesperson, speaks on why impaired driving prevention is an important issue.

  • Why Impaired driving demands a multiple substance approach
  • Christine Frank, Highway Safety Specialist, NHTSA and Christine Moore, President of 9-Delta Analytical LLC
  • Christine Frank and Christine Moore speak on why impaired driving demands a multiple substance approach.

  • Key Challenges and complications of Multiple Substance Impaired Driving
  • Jennifer Tibbitts-Knudsen, Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor, Colorado District Attorneys’ Office and Karen Sprattler, Behavior Highway Safety Lead Kimley-Horn
  • Jennifer Tibbitts-Knudsen speaks on the key challenges and complications of multiple substance impaired driving.

  • State Highway Safety Office Response: Multiple Substance Impaired Driving
  • Karen Sprattler Behavior, Highway Safety Lead, Kimley-Horn and Russ Martin, Senior Director of Policy and Government Relations, GHSA
  • Russ Martin from speaks on the State Highway Safety Office Response to Multiple Substance Impaired Driving.

  • Countermeasures Detection
  • Brian Shaffer, Director Government Affairs, Drager; Karen Sprattler, Behavior Highway Safety Lead, Kimley-Horn; Darrin Grondel, Vice President, Government Relations and Traffic Safety, Responsbility.org; Matthew W. Myers, BS, MPA, Assistant Chief of Police: Peachtree City, GA; Curt Harper, Chief Toxicologist, Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences; Jennifer Davidson, Highway Safety Specialist, NHTSA; Jayme Derbyshire, Officer, Montogmery County Department of Police
  • The speakers Darrin Grondel, Matthew Myers, Curt Harper, Jennifer Davidson and Jayme Derbyshire discussed the use the use of law enforcement training and deployment, oral fluid testing, e-warrants, phlebotomy and green labs when it comes to the detection of impaired driving.

  • Prioritization Discussion
  • Karen Sprattler, Behavior Highway Safety Lead, Kimley-Horn; Darrin Grondel, Vice President, Government Relations and Traffic Safety, Responsbility.org
  • Day one of the NASID conference wrapped up with a discussion on prioritization.

  • Toxicology: Issues, Challenges, Project Goals
  • Erin Holmes, Director, Global Road Safety, Abbott; Karen Sprattler, Behavior Highway Safety Lead, Kimley-Horn; Jennifer Harmon, Crime Laboratory Director for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department’s Regional Crime Lab; Jake Nelson, Director of Traffic Safety Advocacy and Research for AAA; Christine Moore, President of 9-Delta Analytical LLC; Amy Miles, Director of the Forensic Toxicology Program at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
  • Issues, challenges and project goals were spoken on by our presenters, Jennifer Harmon, Jake Nelson, Christine Moore, and Amy Miles in our Toxicology panel.

  • Adjudication and Remediation of DUID
  • Erika Eckley, Vice President of Legislative Affairs, Intoxalock; Karen Sprattler, Behavior Highway Safety Lead, Kimley-Horn; Mike Hanson, Treasurer of the Governors Highway Safety Association and Director of the Minnesota Office of Traffic Safety; Bill Lindsey, Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor for Alabama; Terrence Walton, Chief Operation Officer of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals; Judge Richard Vlavianos, Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of San Joaquin; Joanne Thomka, Director of the National Traffic Law Center of the National District Attorneys Association; Sam Nathews Vice President, Communications and Branding
  • During the Countermeasures: Adjudication and Remediation of DUID panel, Mike Hanson, Judge Richard Vlavianos, Terrence Walton, Bill Lindsey and Joanne Thomka spoke on prosecution, drug courts, offender monitoring and training.

  • Behavior Change Campaigns that Work
  • Leslie Kimball, Jake Nelson, David Ocamb and Shelly Baldwin
  • During the lunch session on Countermeasures: Public Education, our panelists Leslie Kimball, Jake Nelson, David Ocamb and Shelly Baldwin spoke on messaging and why it is important to help prevent impaired driving.

  • Synthesis and Closing Remarks
  • Darrin Grondel, Vice President, Government Relations and Traffic Safety, Responsbility.org and Karen Sprattler, Behavior Highway Safety Lead, Kimley-Horn
  • To wrap up the conference, a discussion was held to create a national action plane and a wrap up of the conference.