This presentation will address firearm violence generally, from the perspective that it is a complex health and social problem and largely preventable, and will present new research on the threat of firearm-related political violence and the possibility of civil war

Our speaker, Dr. Garen J. Wintemute, is Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine and Baker–Teret Chair in Violence Prevention at the University of California, Davis. He is the founding director of the Centers for Violence Prevention there. His research focuses on firearm violence risk factors at the individual and social levels and on interventions to prevent violence, currently with an emphasis on political violence. Trained initially as a biologist at Yale University, Dr. Wintemute attended medical school and residency at UC Davis and studied epidemiology and injury prevention at The Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and he practices and teaches emergency medicine at UC Davis Medical Center, a Level I trauma center.