Dr. Daniel Semenza is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice (Primary) and the Department of Urban-Global Public Health in the School of Public Health (Secondary) at Rutgers University. He is the Director of...
Local police officers and other external law enforcement officers are ubiquitous in emergency departments (EDs) across the country. But the job of law enforcement to protect public safety can sometimes conflict with clinicians’ dedication to patient care while putting...
In the United States, there are over 100 gun deaths each day and about 38,000 each year. Despite the number of deaths, lingering health impacts from gunshot wounds, and the psychological impact a gun death or injury can have on a household or community, gun violence...
Trina Kumodzi from Penn Nursing, joined Charles Ellison to discuss a first-of-its-kind study from Penn Nursing and the Penn Injury Science Center has assessed the performance of two predictive screeners to determine their performance in a population heavily impacted...
Rodney Babb, lead violence recovery specialist for the Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program, has been accepted into the Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy. This unique program out of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago...
In an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Anish Agarwal and Jane Muir spotlight the growing violence faced by ER nurses and physicians, stressing the urgent need for zero-tolerance policies in health-care settings. They advocate for federal legislation and stronger...
Elinore Kaufman, MD, MSHP, FACS is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and Emergency Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, and she serves as Director of Research for the division. Dr. Kaufman also serves as the...
Dr. Delgado is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology with tenure at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the faculty director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, the world’s first behavioral design team embedded within a health system. He is also...
