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.