| Bio for Rob Lillis |
| Rob Lillis is President of Evalumetrics Research, providing research and evaluation technical assistance to youth development, substance abuse, criminal justice, traffic safety, health and mental health programs at the state and local level. He serves as Research Consultant to the Partnership for Ontario County, Finger Lakes Drug Court, Ontario County Juvenile Drug Court, Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Greater Rochester, Allegany Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, and a number of other local youth development and substance abuse prevention programs. He provides planning and evaluation services to Drug Free Communities programs in numerous counties in upstate New York. He has also conducted evaluations of the Yes Pa Character Education Program. In the past three years he has conducted surveys of over 17,000 middle and high school students in the Finger Lakes area to assess their risk and protective factors related to substance abuse, violence, teen pregnancy and school dropout. Mr. Lillis served as Project Director on the State Incentive Cooperative Agreement (SICA) Outcome Study in which he completed an evaluation of school-based mentoring programs and Life Skills Training (LST) in schools in Ontario County, New York. Results of the study were presented at the National Prevention Network (NPN) annual prevention research conference in 2003. From 1991 through 2001 he was a faculty member and Director of the Research Accident Investigation Team in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine. From 2000 to 2001 he was Director of Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine. While at the University he served as Principal Investigator for numerous traffic injury research projects including: The Detection of Drugs in Injured Drivers Project and The Identification, Enforcement and Referral Project for Injured Impaired Drivers. He also served as a co-investigator on the Drinking Driver Treatment Outcome Study in San Juan County, New Mexico. From 1988 through 1991 Mr. Lillis served as Manager of Highway Safety Programs in the Injury Control Program, Division of Epidemiology, New York State Department of Health. He was responsible for the development and evaluation of state and local highway injury prevention initiatives. He was responsible for obtaining, linking and analyzing medical record, crash and driver history data at the State and local level. From 1978 to 1988 Mr. Lillis served as Project Director on numerous research projects at the New York State Division of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. These included the Youth Alcohol Study, Special Highway Safety Policy Analysis Project, and the Problem Drinker Driver Needs Assessment. He also served as Research Consultant to Governor Carey’s Task Force on Impaired Driving and provided ongoing research and technical assistance to the Governor’s Office and the legislature during legislative consideration of increasing the State’s legal drinking age. He was responsible for extensive analyses of motor vehicle crash data and driver records. He has served as a Special Consultant to the U.S. General Accounting Office and conducted a review and synthesis of research related to the effectiveness of drinking age laws in the United States as well as reviews of research related to seatbelt laws and motorcycle helmet laws. Since 1991 Mr. Lillis has served as a member of the Impaired Driver Assessment consultant team for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). He has conducted reviews of impaired driving prevention and treatment activities in Maryland, California, Arizona, Texas, Connecticut, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Oregon, New Mexico, North Carolina, Minnesota, Tennessee, Missouri, Delaware, North Dakota, Montana, Utah, Ohio, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Indiana, Illinois, Georgia, Washington, Massachusetts, Puerto Rico and the combined Indian Nations. |
