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CodeRedPA Launches Website
Comprised of a diverse and impassioned group of Pennsylvanians, CodeRedPA is a new organization aimed at reducing gun violence in the...

Firearm Homicide Incidence, Within-State Firearm Laws, and Interstate Firearm Laws in US Counties
Firearm homicides occur less frequently in US states with more firearm control laws. However, firearms are easily transported across...

When it Comes to its Gun Violence Epidemic, Philly is Struggling to Control the Spread
StartFragment PISC Senior Scholars Elinore Kaufman, MD, Joel Fein, MD, and Executive Board Member, Therese Richmond, PhD, are featured in...

Survey US Hospital Type and Proximity to Mass Shooting Events
StartFragment PISC Senior Scholars Michael Nance, MD, Sage Myers, MD, and colleagues authored a research letter evaluating the location...

Universal Background Checks for Handgun Purchases Can Reduce African American Homicide Rates
StartFragment Although firearm homicide disproportionately affects African Americans, little is known about how universal background...

Why This Penn Surgeon Is Worried About Appendectomies and Shootings During the Coronavirus Crisis
PISC Past Trainee Elinore Kaufman, MD, participated in a Q&A with Philly Mag to discuss her recent op-ed published in the New York Times....

Poverty and The Pandemic
PISC Past Trainee Elinore Kaufman, MD, gives an informative interview with the WHYY's Radio Times after her recent op-ed in the New York...

Please, Stop Shooting. We Need the Beds.
PISC Past Trainee Elinore Kaufman, MD, was recently published in The New York Times for an opinion piece titled "Please, Stop Shooting....

The William Shoemaker Honorary Lecture on The Impact of Gun Violence on Public Health
PISC Executive Board Member, Therese Richmond, PhD, CRNP, FAAN presented the William Shoemaker Honorary Lecture on the impact of gun...