Garen Wintemute

Garen J. Wintemute is an emergency medicine physician at UC Davis Medical Center, where he is the director of the Violence Prevention Research Program.[1] He conducts research in the fields of injury epidemiology and the prevention of firearm violence.[2] He is one of a few public health experts researching gun violence in the United States--he has said that there are only a dozen researchers in the United States who study this subject, including him. He has funded this research in part through more than $1 million of his own money.[3][1]

References

  1. 1 2 Wadman, Meredith (24 April 2013). "Firearms research: The gun fighter". Nature. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Violence Prevention Research Program, Garen J. Wintemute". UC Davis Health System. UC Regents. 2014. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
  3. ↑ Beckett, Lois (22 April 2014). "Meet the Doctor Who Gave $1 Million of His Own Money to Keep His Gun Research Going". ProPublica. Retrieved 2 March 2016.

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