Dr. Green, MD FAAEM, an emergency physician in Nashville, TN. She graduated from Michigan State University with a BS in Chemical Engineering in 2003, received her MD from Wayne State University in 2008, and completed her emergency medicine residency at Indiana University in 2011. She has been a member of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine since residency and served as an at-large board member of the Tennessee Chapter of AAEM from 2021-23. She is an active member of the Tennessee Medical Association (TMA) and the Nashville chapter, the Nashville Academy of Medicine. Through the TMA, Dr. Green advocates for healthcare related legislation at the Tennessee state legislature, participating in Doctor of the Day and Doctor’s Day on the Hill. She serves as a board member of Gideon’s Army, a nonprofit organization working to reduce gun violence in Nashville. Dr. Green is the current chair of the AMWA advocacy committee. She is also active with the gun violence solutions committee. Locally, she is on the leadership team of the East Nashtivists, a grassroots organization and action council through Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood, advocating for reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights and bodily autonomy through voter registration, engagement and turnout efforts in her community.

Dr. Barnhorst is the Vice Chair for Community Mental Health in the UC Davis Department of Psychiatry, an Associate Director of the California Firearm Violence Research Center at UC Davis, a Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, and the Director of the BulletPoints Project, a state-funded effort to develop a firearm violence prevention curriculum for healthcare providers. Her academic work focuses on the interface between firearms, violence, suicide and the mental health system, and she has testified before the California and Alaska Senates on these issues. Resource mentioned in podcast: https://www.bulletpointsproject.org/

Dr. Stegall is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellow at the Eastern Virginia Medical School with an interest in advocacy and injury prevention. She has participated in many efforts to end gun violence and has published several academic papers on the topic. In a resident-driven quality improvement project, she helped implement Be SMART education for pediatric residents that improved firearm access screening rates in the pediatric ED setting. She continues to do similar work in fellowship with implementing standardized lethal means counseling amongst the ED, inpatient psychiatry, and trauma departments which includes screening for access to firearms.

Dr. Hargarten is a Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Medical College of Wisconsin where he served as Chair for over 20 years. He is also the Founding Director of the Comprehensive Injury Center and the Founding Dean for Global Health. His research interests reflect an intersection of injury and violence prevention and health policy to address the burden of this biopsychosocial disease. His work in linking data systems for understanding violent deaths informed the development of the CDC’s National Violent Death Reporting System. 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. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Betz is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where she is also the Founding Director of the Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative and Deputy Director of the Injury and Violence Prevention Center. She is a founding member of the Colorado Firearm Safety Coalition. She also oversees a multi-million dollar research portfolio funded by the National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense, focusing on ED provider attitudes towards 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.

Kat is a 1st year medical student at Rush Chicago. She previously worked with AMWA Gun Violence Solutions (GVS) Committee before starting medical school, and is one of the founding creators of Unloading, the AMWA GVS podcast.

Claire is a 3rd year medical student at University of Colorado. She was recently awarded the 2024 University of Colorado Public Health Injury and Violence Prevention grant to support her firearm injury prevention research, which is looking at how social determinants of healthcare impacting the follow-up care received by patients who have sustained firearm injuries.

Susan is a 3rd year medical student at University of Pikeville Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine. Susan served as the 2023 Student Medical Chair of the AMWA Gun Violence Solutions Committee and has been involved with Moms Demand Action, advocating for public health measures to protect folks from gun violence.

Dhruva is a 3rd year medical student at Wayne School of Medicine. He first became interested in firearm injury and prevention when noting the difference in discussions regarding firearms between India and the United States.

Sarah is a 3rd year medical student at St. George University. She has been involved with the AMWA Gun Violence Solutions Committee since Fall 2023.