Thomas R. HartkaMD, MS, MSDS

Thomas R. Hartka is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia, where he directs the Emergency Medicine Research Office and is assistant medical director of the Center for Applied Biomechanics. He holds computer engineering degrees from Virginia Tech and an MD and MS in Data Science from UVA. His research focuses on automotive safety and on quantifying and predicting injury in motor vehicle crashes, and he is UVA’s site principal investigator for the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN). In 2025 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.

Sources (September 2026): UVA faculty profile · UVA Health news