Tara L.A. Moore

Dr. Tara L.A. Moore, PE (CV) is a Consulting Engineer for JP Research. A biomechanical engineer with a Ph.D. in Medical Engineering (from Harvard University-Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (from MIT), Dr. Moore has over 15 years’ research and accident reconstruction experience in the area of human injury / tolerance to mechanical loads. She specializes in performing biomechanical accident reconstructions to address issues involving human injury biomechanics, including the severity and mechanism of injuries occurring in transportation, occupational, and industrial accidents; injuries occurring in falls; and injuries to children.

A managing and consulting engineer for many years, Dr. Moore has extensive experience applying her medical and technical knowledge to real-world problems involving traumatic injury mechanism, severity and causation. She has evaluated biomechanical issues and injury potential associated with alternate scenarios, such as changes in design or safety equipment, and has used biomechanical analyses to evaluate how (or whether) a described scenario could have occurred during a specific event.

Dr. Moore’s research interests include applying field accident data to understand biomechanical issues in rollovers, pediatric inertial neck injuries in motor vehicle collisions, balance retention while operating material handling equipment, traumatic injury in the presence of implanted medical devices, and the effect of occupant size (height, weight, BMI) on injury risk. She has also performed research studies of trabecular bone mechanics, mechanics of cellular materials, materials systems for rapid prototyping, and fatigue of materials. Dr. Moore is a licensed professional engineer (Pennsylvania).