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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 113-126
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She completed her pediatrics residency and academic fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Her research has f ocused on screening for and responding to intimate partner violence in the health setting, the impact of family violence on child health, and interventions to partner with families to promote resilience and child well-being.
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and participates in the Committee on Preparedness and Violence Intervention and the Committee on Prevention of the Massachusetts Medical S ociety. He participated in the ACEP Technical Advisory Group for Firearm Research and co-authored the group's consensus driven agenda for firearm injury prevention research published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine in February 2017.
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Her prior work has included publications and presentations related to ED provider attitudes toward lethal means restriction for suicide prevention, suicidality among older adults, public opinion about firearm safety discussions, and strategies for enhancing provider–patient communication about sensitive topics, and in 2015 she gave a TEDxMileHigh talk on firearm suicide.
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School of Medicine and the assistant director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention–funded UM Injury Prevention Center. He completed his clinical training and chief residency in emergency medicine at the University of Michigan, followed by a 2-year research fellowship sponsored by a National Institutes of Health T32 grant through the UM Addiction Research Center and the Injury Pre
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-based interventions to decrease firearm violence and associated risk behaviors, such as substance use among high-risk urban youth populations. He has led several projects examining the public health problem of firearm violence, including studies characterizing illegal firearm possession among youth, firearm violence outcomes among ED populations, and the unique characteristics of firearm conflicts that differentiate them from other types of peer violence.
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This grant brings together firearm researchers across the country to build capacity in this field by their collective work to generate of a research agenda for firearm injury among children; conduct innovative firearm prevention science; create a data repository to enhance analysis and access to firearm data; and train postdoctoral fellows in the science of firearm injury prevention.
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David Grossman, M.D., M.P.H., is a senior investigator, a pediatrician at Kaiser Permanente Washington, and a senior medical director for the Washington Permanente Medical Group.
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, a consortium of nine member academic, health care, and governmental organizations and agencies dedicated to addressing local and global health issues, including patient care, education and training, research, and community engagement. He was the founding president of the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research and has served on the Violence and Injury Prevention Mentoring Committee for the World Health Organization.
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She also serves as the associate chief medical officer, vice president of mission, and director of the Violence Intervention Advocacy Program at the Boston Medical Center.
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Since joining the faculty at the Medical College, Dr. Levas has been intimately involved with youth violence and injury prevention policy and research.
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Megan Ranney, M.D., M.P.H., FACEP, is an associate professor in the Depart ent of Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown m University; the director and founder of the Brown Emergency Digital Health Innovation program; and the chief research officer for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine Research, a philanthropy focused on filling the funding gap for firearm injury prevention research.
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She is currently the principal investigator or co-investigator on seven federally funded grants and has more than 95 peer-reviewed publications. She currently serves as an elected member-at-large on the board of directors for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine; serves an editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine; and chairs regional and national committees on firearm injury within and outside of emergency medicine.
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Dr. Rowhani-Rahbar has served on the American College of Emergency Physicians Technical Advisory Group on Firearm Violence Research, the Firearms Subcommittee of Washington State Safer Homes Task Force for Suicide Prevention, and the editorial board of the journal Injury Prevention.
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His current focus is on developing veteran-centered approaches to facilitating lethal means safety as a suicide prevention strategy. Daniel Webster, Sc.D., M.P.H., is the inaugural Bloomberg Professor of American Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he directs the Center for Gun Policy and Research and serves as the co-lead of the Violence Prevention Workgroup of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative.
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