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UW Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine

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Research Interests: Acute inpatient rehabilitation of stroke, spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury

UW Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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Research Interests: Neurocritical care outcomes, stroke, neuromonitoring, hemodynamic monitoring.

UW Assistant Professor of Social Work

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UW Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

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Research Interests: Dr. Adedipe’s clinical and research interests include emergency point of care ultrasound and cardiac arrest.

UW Assistant Professor of Urology

Genitourinary Trauma, Reconstruction & Gender Affirming Surgery

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UW Acting Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Research Consultant

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UW Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine

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UW Research Associate Professor of Anesthesiology

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Research Interests: Bioengineering and IT research in critical care, anesthesia information and decision support systems, closed-loop glucose control, biological modeling and signal processing.

UW Professor of Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Informatics

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Research Interests: Lifespan Health

UW Professor of Epidemiology

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Research Interests:Reproductive and perinatal epidemiology, cancer in women and children with a focus on gestational/ in utero factors, cancer survivorship, and epidemiological research with health registry data

Chief of Pediatrics, Harborview Medical Center

UW Professor of Pediatrics

UW Adjunct Professor of Health Services

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Research Interests: Child pedestrian injury; pediatric window fall prevention; medical-legal partnerships to improve community safety; writing for publication.

UW Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

UW Adjunct Professor of Health Services

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Research Interests: Pediatric obesity treatment and prevention.

UW Assistant Professor of Radiology

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Research Interests: Radiology

UW Professor of Global Health & Health Services

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Research Interests: Adoption, implementation, and sustainability of innovations and evidence-based practices in health care delivery and other organizational settings.

UW Associate Professor of Surgery

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Research Interests: Defining strategies to prevent lung injury after severe injury or critical surgical illness.

UW Affiliate Assistant Professor of Health Services

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Research Interests: Drug abuse epidemiology; health services research; youth substance abuse prevention; drug overdose prevention; drug treatment services research

UW Acting Instructor of Emergency Medicine

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HIPRC Research Scientist

UW Assistant Professor of Sociology

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Research Interests: Demography, Internal U.S. Migration, Residential Mobility, Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Outcomes, Gender, Family Studies, Work and Family, Statistics, and Research Methods

UW Assistant Professor of Radiology

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Research Interests: Musculoskeletal radiology, quality improvement.

UW Acting Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

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Research Interests: Anesthesiology, Patient Education, Traumatology

UW Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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Research Interests: Pediatric Pain Management

UW Assistant Teaching Professor of Social Work

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Research Interests: Macro- and mezzo-level influences on healthcare interactions, ethical implications of inequities in healthcare settings, bioethics and research ethics.

UW Acting Instructor of Medicine

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Research Interests: Emergency Medicine

UW Professor of Pathology

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Research Interests: Genetic variation in patterns of aging in natural populations of several species, including flies, dogs, and humans. PI of the Dog Aging Project (dogagingproject.org).

UW Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery

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Research Interests: Neurocognitive functioning in sports-related concussion; attention and concentration aspects of performance; sport psychology interventions.

UW Associate Professor of Medicine, Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

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Research Interests: World Trade Center related illnesses; occupational health and safety education; cardiovascular disease; ergonomics.

UW Professor of Anesthesiology & Neurological Surgery

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Research Interests: Traumatic brain injury, stroke, transcranial Doppler ultrasonography, cerebrovascular reactivity and education in anesthesiology.

UW Assistant Professor of Surgery

UW School of Medicine, Trauma, Burn & Critical Care Division

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UW Acting Assistant Professor at Harborview Medical Center

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UW Acting Instructor of Anesthesiology

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Research Interests: Anesthesiology, critical care medicine

UW Acting Assistant Professor of Medicine

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Research Interests: Addiction medicine, opioid dependence

UW Associate Professor of Surgery

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Research Interests: Improving surgical education worldwide, especially on methods and conditions relevant to low and middle-income countries and women’s participation in surgery.

UW Associate Professor of Geriatric Medicine

UW Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Services

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Research Interests: Improving quality of care for geriatric syndromes, in particular falls and fall prevention.

UW Acting Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

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Research Interests: Pediatrics, child maltreatment

UW Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

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Research Interests: Translational health communication, with a particular emphasis on concussion and mental health help seeking in youth, adolescent and young adult sport.

UW Associate Professor of Surgery

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Research interests: Comparative effectiveness clinical trials for acute surgical disease to better understand the impact and trade-offs of treatment options on a patient’s life. She is also focused on evaluating how healthcare is delivered differently by some people (eg: those that do not speak English, are not white, unhoused, or have low health literacy) and the impact of quality improvement initiatives and healthcare delivery methods on the population we are striving to serve.

UW School of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology

UW Medical Center & Harborview Medical Center, Associate Medical Director of Transfusion Service Laboratories

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Research Interests: The scope of Dr. Tsang’s work at Cornell, Stanford, and University of Washington has combined clinical service, trainee education, and quality improvement. He oversees transfusion practices and provides consultation for patients with special transfusion needs. He has a strong interest in informatics solutions and improving the quality of the transfusion service at the University of Washington through technologic innovation. He specializes in database extraction, data transformation, and basic data analysis combining clinical and laboratory knowledge to facilitate quality improvement and research. Dr. Tsang’s clinical interests include clinical research in transfusion reactions and transfusion support for bleeding disorders.

UW Professor of Urology

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Research Interests: Urogenital trauma epidemiology and management; the physiology and pathophysiology of erectile dysfunction; reconstructive surgery; crash injury mechanics; and urological complications of diabetes.

UW Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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Research Interests: Anesthesiology, Aging, Older Adults

Chief of Pain Services, Harborview Medical Center

UW Associate Professor of Anesthesiology

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Research Interests: Pain management, addiction medicine, chronic pain

UW Associate Professor of Neuroradiology

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Research Interests: The clinical application of advanced MRI techniques in assessing brain vessel abnormalities and traumatic brain injury.

UW Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

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Research Interests: Medical teamwork and communication and on injury prevention efforts.

UW Associate Professor of Pediatrics

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Research Interests: Eliminating inequities in physical activity and nutrition among racial/ethnic minorities and children with chronic diseases.

UW Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine

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Research Interests: Improving outcomes for individuals with traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury, and examines access to healthcare for individuals with disability.

UW Research Associate Professor, Department of Health Systems & Population Health

UW Adjunct Faculty, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

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Research Interests: Occupational injury surveillance; occupational health services; workers’ compensation systems; policy and program evaluation; disparities in health and health care access

UW Assistant Professor of Sociology

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Research Interests: Organizational racial diversity, social movements and social change, culture and inequality

UW Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine

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Research Interests: Environmentally sustainable rehabilitation,medical education, and traumatic brain injury.

UW Professor of Neurological Surgery, Radiology & Health Services

UW Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy & Orthopedics

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Research Interests: The imaging of low back pain and peripheral nerve disorders, cost-effectiveness of low back pain treatments in patients, spine disorders, carpal tunnel syndrome and median nerve.

UW Professor of Pediatrics

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Research Interests: The disequilibrium between the systemic inflammatory response syndrome and compensatory anti-inflammatory response syndrome and the integrated role of neurological, endocrinologic and inflammatory cross-talk, particularly involving reactive oxygen species and fatty acid derived mediators and their effect on metabolism.

UW Professor of Psychiatry

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Research Interests: Psychiatric epidemiology, health services research, psychiatric oncology and neuropsychiatry.

UW Associate Professor of Allergy & Infectious Diseases

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Research Interests: Bone and joint infections, trauma-related infections, tuberculosis, healthcare-associated infections, employee health and infection prevention and control.

UW Professor of Laboratory Medicine

UW Adjunct Professor of Hematology

Medical Director of Transfusion Service

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UW Professor of Epidemiology, Geography, Medicine & Global Health

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Research Interests: Synthesizing the epidemiologic, geographic, and clinical understanding of health and disease; epidemiology and geography of pain–especially chronic pain–and the conditions that underlie pain, such as low back pain, postherpetic neuralgia, and injury; diarrheal diseases esp. in sub-Saharan Africa; tuberculosis (TB), especially in densely settled slum areas; vector-borne diseases, including malaria, dengue, and Zika; Emerging infectious diseases–previously unrecognized or genuine de novo diseases, such as Ebola, HIV, Zika, and the emergence of new forms of antimicrobial (“antibiotic”) resistant infections.

UW Assistant Professor of Urology

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Research Interests: Genitourinary tract trauma.

UW Associate Professor of Medicine

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Research Interests: Complications of substance abuse and related viral infections, addiction treatment for prevention of hepatitis C

UW Associate Professor of Radiology

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Research Interests: Diagnostic Physics

UW Associate Professor of Surgery

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Research Interests: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

UW Professor of Social Work

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UW Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering

UW Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

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Research Interests: Enhancing motor vehicle operator safety and reducing injuries and fatalities using data from various sources to quantify human performance and behavior

UW Professor Emeritae of Pediatrics

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician, Seattle Children’s Hospital

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Research Interests: Dr. Quan’s federally funded research in drowning and drowning prevention have addressed adolescents, ethnic/racial minorities, life jacket use and pediatric and drowning resuscitation. She continues to work on legislative and policy approaches to drowning prevention. She is presently on the Aquatic subcouncil of the  Scientific Advisory Council of the American Red Cross and WatersafetyUSA.

UW Associate Professor of Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine

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Research Interests: Trauma and fracture care with optimal clinical outcomes.

Lecturer, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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Research Interests: Public health and preventative medicine

UW Assistant Professor of Radiology

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Research Interests: Vessel wall imaging, quantitative susceptibility mapping and diffusion tensor imaging of the spine.

UW Assistant Professor of Radiology, Musculoskeletal Imaging & Intervention

Director, Musculoskeletal MRI

Research Interests: Musculoskeletal Imaging, Trauma, Injury Prevention, Cartilage Imaging, Sarcoma Imaging

UW Acting Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

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Research Interests: Patient safety, quality improvement and resident education.

UW Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

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Research Interests: Mortality and injury among military personnel and veterans

UW Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

UW Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

UW Adjunct Professor of Bioethics & Humanities

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Research Interests: Addiction medicine, Behavioral health care, Pain medicine, Psychiatry, Psychosomatic medicine

UW Professor of Neurology

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Research Interests: Pediatric neurocritical care including cardiac arrest, refractory status epilepticus, stroke, traumatic brain injury, brain infections and neurologic complications of critical illness.

UW Associate Professor of Pediatrics

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Research Interests: The intersection between pediatric critical care and community with special interest in improving pediatric trauma systems and outcomes as well as pediatric disaster preparedness.

UW Associate Professor of Medicine

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Research Interests: The extracellular matrix and the microvasculature in brain injury and neurodegeneration. Improving the detection of frailty and sarcopenia in older trauma patients.

UW Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology

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Research Interests: The impact of surgery on quality of life, medical education and continuing medical education.

UW Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

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UW Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine

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Research Interests: Traumatic brain injury including concussions, cerebral palsy, functional impairments related to other medical conditions or developmental disorders, spinal cord injury and Health disparities in American Indian and Alaska Native children with disabilities, disparities in access to rehabilitation services, culturally relevant rehabilitation and functional outcome measures and interventions

UW Associate Professor of Surgery

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Research Interests: Aortic aneurysm, endovascular surgery, vascular trauma, endovascular simulation and surgical education.

UW Professor of Neurological Surgery & Biostatistics

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Research Interests: Clinical trials; composite outcomes; survival analysis; translational research; traumatic brain injury

UW Professor & Interim Chair of Neurology

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Research Interests: Properties of neuronal dendrites both under normal conditions and in epilepsy, particularly interest in how hyperpolarization-activated, cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels contribute to epilepsy

UW Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

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Research Interests: Anesthesiology

UW Professor of Social Work

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Research Interests: Processes and effects of stress and trauma, focusing on vulnerable and socially disadvantaged populations, early/preventive intervention, and fostering resilience.

UW Acting Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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Research Interests: Intracerebral hemorrhage, therapeutic hypothermia, subarachnoid hemorrhage and brain death.

UW Professor of Pediatrics

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Research Interests: Understanding critical care and critical illness in the larger contexts of medical, social, and family systems.

UW Professor of Neurological Surgery

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Research Interests: Improvement of care for traumatic brain and spine injuries, investigation of outcomes in trauma care systems in developing countries in Latin America and targeted therapy in the management of traumatic brain injury.

UW Acting Assistant Professor of Pharmacy

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Research Interests: Medication safety, cost-effectiveness modeling, and comparative effectiveness research.

UW Professor of Anesthesiology

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Research Interests: Understanding and enhancing procedural pain management in trauma and burn patients using novel non-pharmacologic techniques, such as virtual reality distraction and virtual reality hypnosis and assessing and improving emergent airway management, resuscitation, and pain management in adults and children in the prehospital emergency care setting.

UW Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

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Research Interests: Complex, high-resolution medical imaging, such as functional neuroimaging, clinical trials and patient outcome, craniopagus twins and cervical spine issues related to down syndrome. Additionally, Dr. Browd specialties are with children who have hydrocephalus, brain & spinal cord tumors, pediatric cervical spine, spina bifida, chiari malformations, spasticity

UW Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine

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UW Clinical Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, Orthopedics, Sports Medicine & Neurological Surgery

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Research Interests: Non-operative musculoskeletal and sports medicine, particularly in disorders of the spine and sports concussion.

UW Professor & Chair of Emergency Medicine

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Research Interests: Resuscitation science, specifically evaluating novel therapeutic strategies in the early phases following traumatic injury with hemorrhagic shock.

UW Professor of Surgery

UW Medicine Regional Burn Center Director

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Research Interests: Injury responses in older adults, regional access to care and telemedicine.

UW Professor of Medicine

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Research Interests: Prehospital emergency care and factors influencing risk and outcome of cardiac arrest.

UW Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

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Research Interests: Neurocritical care, transport/prehospital critical care, traumatic brain injury, neurocritical care ultrasound

UW Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

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Research Interests: Health systems design and healthcare delivery, medical education and quality improvement.

Health Services Consultant

Injury & Violence Prevention

Prevention & Community Health

WA State Department of Health

Safe Kids Coalition

UW Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine

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Research Interests: Orthopedic trauma, joint arthroplasty, minimizing postoperative complications, improving patient care

UW Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

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Research Interests: Posterior segment manifestations of ocular trauma and the optimization of resident and fellow ophthalmic training.

HIPRC Manager

Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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HIPRC Research Coordinator

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HIPRC Sr. Public Information Specialist

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HIPRC Research Coordinator

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HIPRC Education & Training Core Program Specialist

HIPRC Research Coordinator

Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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HIPRC Research Coordinator

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HIPRC Research Coordinator

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HIPRC Public Information Specialist

Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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HIPRC Outreach Core Staff & Research Coordinator

Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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HIPRC Data Scientist, Data Engineer & Biomedical Informatician

Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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Research Interests: EHR-based modeling and data science, Population health research and social determinants of health, and disaster preparedness research

HIPRC Research Consultant

Department of Pediatrics

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HIPRC Research Coordinator

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HIPRC Research Assistant

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HIPRC Data Manager

Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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I have over 20 years of experience managing data in public health and social research, spanning subjects such as healthy child and youth development, substance abuse prevention and treatment, HIV prevention and surveillance, intimate partner violence, child maltreatment, family income sufficiency, traumatic brain injury, and firearm injury and mortality. I have advanced programming skills in several languages, including R, Stata, SAS, SPSS, and SQL. I also have training in survey research design and data collection.

HIPRC Research Consultant

Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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HIPRC Research Consultant

Department of Pediatrics

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Epidemiology

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Research interests: Firearm injury, particularly suicide prevention and means safety

Pediatrics

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Research Interests: Intimate partner violence, sexual violence, adolescent health, social epidemiology.

Public Policy

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University of Washington
Major/Field of Study: Epidemiology PhD

Why do you study injury?
Violence and injury are a leading cause of child mortality and morbidity worldwide

What surprises you about injury research?
The shocking statistics and inequality. For example, 95% of injury deaths among children occur in low- and middle-income countries.

When I was a kid, I wanted to become:
President

Epidemiology

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Urology

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T32 Postdoctoral Scholar Fellow

Research interests: Pediatric injury and violence prevention, community violence, natural hazards, social vulnerabilities, environmental justice and health disparities

SOM: Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine: Education JM Resident/Fellow

Anesthesiology

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Epidemiology

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University of Washington
Major/Field of Study: Epidemiology

• Why do you study injury?
  • My interest in injury research began when I was working for a prosecuting attorney processing paperwork for domestic violence cases and DUI charges. It opened my eyes to how widespread these sources of injury are. Injury captures such a broad range of causes, intents, and at-risk populations that there is always something new to explore. Injury is frequently on all of our minds as it tends to be in the news, which is especially true as someone working in firearms. It is really rewarding to participate in research that is meaningful and contributes to a conversation that’s happening on such a big stage.
• What surprises you about injury research?
  • There are so many facets of injury research that affect so many different populations. What really surprises me about injury research is talking to other people working in epidemiology and hearing about their diverse projects – some that I wouldn’t have typically associated with injury epi. It’s also interesting how each subset of injury seems to have a controversy of its own. Most of my injury work thus far has been related to firearms and it’s a big conversation in politics today, but it’s interesting to hear from other epidemiologists that they’re fighting their own political battles over interventions like helmet laws.
• When I was a kid, I wanted to become:
  • I really wanted to be a detective like Encylopedia Brown or Nancy Drew! Sometimes I like to think of epidemiology as mystery solving, albeit in a world with fewer secret passages.

Social Welefare, SSW

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University of Washington
Ph.D. in Epidemiology

Why do you study injury?

Most of my research in injury has focus on non-fatal and fatal drug overdoses. Injuries cause a significant morbidity and mortality burden at the population level, while also contributing to loss of quality of life, emotional impacts to family members and loved ones, and societal impacts. Many of the injuries that I study are preventable with appropriate harm reduction, treatment, and policy interventions, and I enjoy thinking about how to evaluate policies and programs to provide the evidence-base for public health practitioners to reduce these impacts.

What surprises you about injury research?

How many differing disciplines, methodologies, and topic areas are encompassed within this broad research area. An injury researcher may have very different training and skillsets depending on their specific focus area, which provides a unique and exciting multi-disciplinary learning environment!

I also love to talk about:

North Carolina (the Tar Heels, the Blue Ridge Mountains & Emerald coast, and the strong opinions I have about BBQ sauce), National Parks, and my adorable beagle/lab mix, Blue!

Fellow Physician, Spinal Cord Injury Medicine

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington

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Research interests: medical care and recovery after violence-related injury, violence-related spinal cord injury, medical and rehabilitation care for patients who are involved in the criminal justice system, health equity after traumatic and violence-related injury

Surgery

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T32 Fellow Trainee

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Research Interests: I research the intersection of violence and health, the correlates and consequences of formal violence interventions (e.g., legal, medical, and social), and youth violent victimization.

Social Work

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Kelsey is a predoctoral student in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington (UW) and a trainee with the Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center and the Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program. She earned an MPH from UW focusing on the emergency health service utilization of individuals experiencing houselessness. Her current research employs equity-focused mixed-methods and community-engaged research to investigate firearm safety behaviors and evaluate policies to reduce the burden of firearm-related injuries and deaths. Kelsey is also interested in techniques to prevent disproportionate effects of policies on communities of color.

Doctoral Student, University of Washington in the Department of Epidemiology

Research Interests: Kim Dalve’s interests are at the intersection of the legal system and public health. Her current research includes examining social determinants of firearm injury, the effect of COVID-19 on access to domestic violence protection orders, and public policy effects on youth violence. 

Other interests include: criminal legal system; domestic violence; firearm injury; violence prevention; social determinants of health; psychiatric epidemiology; alternatives to incarceration

Trauma Faculty Fellow, HMC

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Pediatrics

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Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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General Surgery

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Public Policy

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Epidemiology

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University of Washington
Major/Field of Study: Epidemiology PhD

• Why do you study injury?
  • Injury is somewhat a neglected area of research in Bangladesh, my home country. I was fortunate enough to meet a few of the most brilliant injury researchers in the country as my teachers, mentors and later colleagues. The inspiration to start injury research (and research in general as well) originated from them while the urge to continue came from realizing the impact that injury research, especially done from a preventive focus, can have in LMIC settings.
• What surprises you about injury research?
  • Injury research is capable of pointing out that preventing injuries can oftentimes be so simple yet we (people) accept this as fate in many parts of the world. Injury research and programs seem to me like magic tricks that can produce beautiful sure-shot outcomes.
• When I was a kid, I wanted to become:
  • So many things at a time…a doctor, a scientist, a traveler, an astronaut, a superhero!

Trauma Injury & Inflammation

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Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, UW

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Resident SOM: Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine: Education JM Resident/Fellow

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, UW

Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Seattle Children’s Hospital

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Research Interests: Pediatric traumatic brain injury

Masters of Public Health Student, Epidemiology

Research Interests: Injuries and social determinants of health; translation to policy and practice.

Doctoral Candidate, School of Social Work

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Research Interests: Research interests: transgender intracommunity support & the subsequent impact on individual wellbeing, improving trans experiences of physical & mental healthcare, the treatment & experiences of multiply marginalized communities

Urology

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HIPRC Director of Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program (FIPRP)

UW Professor of Pediatrics

UW Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology

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Research Interests: The efficacy and promotion of bicycle helmets, prevention of pedestrian injuries, youth violence, the epidemiology of firearm injuries, intimate partner violence, interventions for alcohol abuse in trauma patients and the effectiveness of trauma systems in the care of pediatric and adult trauma patients.

HIPRC Sr. Public Information Specialist

Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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HIPRC Co-Director of Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program (FIPRP)

UW Professor of Epidemiology

Bartley Dobb Professor, Study & Prevention of Violence

UW School of Public Health & Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics

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Research Interests: The goal of his research is to inform equitable and population-level programs and policies that reduce the occurrence and lethality of inter-personal violence and self-directed injury, with a focus on preventing firearm-related harm.

UW Acting Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Research Consultant

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HIPRC Research Coordinator

Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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HIPRC Research Coordinator

Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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Epidemiology

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Research interests: Firearm injury, particularly suicide prevention and means safety

Pediatrics

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Research Interests: Intimate partner violence, sexual violence, adolescent health, social epidemiology.

HIPRC

Public Policy

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University of Washington
Major/Field of Study: Epidemiology PhD

Why do you study injury?
Violence and injury are a leading cause of child mortality and morbidity worldwide

What surprises you about injury research?
The shocking statistics and inequality. For example, 95% of injury deaths among children occur in low- and middle-income countries.

When I was a kid, I wanted to become:
President

HIPRC

HIPRC Research Scientist

UW Assistant Professor of Sociology

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Research Interests: Demography, Internal U.S. Migration, Residential Mobility, Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Outcomes, Gender, Family Studies, Work and Family, Statistics, and Research Methods

UW Assistant Professor of Surgery

UW School of Medicine, Trauma, Burn & Critical Care Division

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Associate Professor of Law, Seattle University

Research Interests: The legal system, nontraditional families, and affirmative action.

Chief of Trauma, Harborview Medical Center

UW Professor of Surgery

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Research Interests: Advancements in pre-hospital care, the early resuscitation of injured patients, and the management of necrotizing soft tissue infections.

Epidemiology

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University of Washington
Major/Field of Study: Epidemiology

• Why do you study injury?
  • My interest in injury research began when I was working for a prosecuting attorney processing paperwork for domestic violence cases and DUI charges. It opened my eyes to how widespread these sources of injury are. Injury captures such a broad range of causes, intents, and at-risk populations that there is always something new to explore. Injury is frequently on all of our minds as it tends to be in the news, which is especially true as someone working in firearms. It is really rewarding to participate in research that is meaningful and contributes to a conversation that’s happening on such a big stage.
• What surprises you about injury research?
  • There are so many facets of injury research that affect so many different populations. What really surprises me about injury research is talking to other people working in epidemiology and hearing about their diverse projects – some that I wouldn’t have typically associated with injury epi. It’s also interesting how each subset of injury seems to have a controversy of its own. Most of my injury work thus far has been related to firearms and it’s a big conversation in politics today, but it’s interesting to hear from other epidemiologists that they’re fighting their own political battles over interventions like helmet laws.
• When I was a kid, I wanted to become:
  • I really wanted to be a detective like Encylopedia Brown or Nancy Drew! Sometimes I like to think of epidemiology as mystery solving, albeit in a world with fewer secret passages.

Professor, Medicine – Allergy and Infectious Disease;
Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology;
Health Officer, Public Health Seattle and King County;
Faculty, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice

Research Interests: Vaccine-preventable diseases; surveillance systems; infectious diseases of public health significance.

T32 Fellow Trainee

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Research Interests: I research the intersection of violence and health, the correlates and consequences of formal violence interventions (e.g., legal, medical, and social), and youth violent victimization.

Social Work

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Kelsey is a predoctoral student in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington (UW) and a trainee with the Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center and the Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program. She earned an MPH from UW focusing on the emergency health service utilization of individuals experiencing houselessness. Her current research employs equity-focused mixed-methods and community-engaged research to investigate firearm safety behaviors and evaluate policies to reduce the burden of firearm-related injuries and deaths. Kelsey is also interested in techniques to prevent disproportionate effects of policies on communities of color.

Doctoral Student, University of Washington in the Department of Epidemiology

Research Interests: Kim Dalve’s interests are at the intersection of the legal system and public health. Her current research includes examining social determinants of firearm injury, the effect of COVID-19 on access to domestic violence protection orders, and public policy effects on youth violence. 

Other interests include: criminal legal system; domestic violence; firearm injury; violence prevention; social determinants of health; psychiatric epidemiology; alternatives to incarceration

HIPRC Research Translation Program Director

UW Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

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UW Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

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Research Interests: Patient-centered research at the intersection of injury, substance use and mental health.

Jack R. MacDonald Endowed Chair & Professor in Law

University of Washington

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Research Interests: Policing, prosecution, firearms and immigration enforcement, and injury and violence prevention

HIPRC Research Consultant

Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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Program Director, Forensic Pathology Fellowship;

Chief Medical Examiner, King County

Bio: Drug abuse prevention programs at the community, school and family level.

Epidemiology

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University of Washington
Major/Field of Study: Epidemiology PhD

• Why do you study injury?
  • Injury is somewhat a neglected area of research in Bangladesh, my home country. I was fortunate enough to meet a few of the most brilliant injury researchers in the country as my teachers, mentors and later colleagues. The inspiration to start injury research (and research in general as well) originated from them while the urge to continue came from realizing the impact that injury research, especially done from a preventive focus, can have in LMIC settings.
• What surprises you about injury research?
  • Injury research is capable of pointing out that preventing injuries can oftentimes be so simple yet we (people) accept this as fate in many parts of the world. Injury research and programs seem to me like magic tricks that can produce beautiful sure-shot outcomes.
• When I was a kid, I wanted to become:
  • So many things at a time…a doctor, a scientist, a traveler, an astronaut, a superhero!

Clinical Instructor

Bio: Gomez represents Public Health-Seattle & King County as Manager of its Violence and Injury Prevention Unit. Gomez has been active in community campaigns to promote traffic safety, encourage safe storage of firearms, promote suicide awareness and prevent drowning.

Assistant Professor (CHS), Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

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Associate Professor

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

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Assistant Research Professor, Injury Epidemiologist
Drexel University

Research Interests: Road traffic injuries to pedestrians and cyclists; built environment; urban health; walkability; global health; Latin America.

Founder, Social Justice Associates, Boulder, CO

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Research interests:  Gender-based violence and sex-based bias:  dynamics, outcomes, and prevention and response through health care, legal and popular culture mechanisms.

Assistant Professor

Medical University of South Carolina

Kirby & Ellergy Cramer Endowed Professor
Director, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
Affiliate faculty, UW Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
PI,PHAST study
Adjunct Professor, UW School of Public Health, Department of Health Services

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Assistant Professor

University at Buffalo

Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Vanderbilt University

Senior Injury Epidemiologist & Policy, Analyst/Informaticist/Analyst, Assistant Professor (Affiliate) School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Oregon Health Authority, Oregon Health and Science University

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Nursing Scientist, Seattle Children’s
Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Washington
Vice Chair for Education

Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Washington

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Suicide & Injury Prevention Program Manager

Seattle Children’s

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Associate Professor
Assistant Dean of Undergraduate and Community Research,
Director, Office of Information Management
Washington State University, School of Nursing

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Research Interests: Health services research; improving access to and quality of care for rural and underserved populations; use of administrative data in observational studies; examining health care costs and utilization post-injury; occupational injury

Senior MCH Epidemiologist, Alaska Department of Public Health

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Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychological Sciences; Faculty of Health, Arts and Design

Swinburne University of Technology

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Chair, Healthcare Committee, Washington State Coalition for Language Access

Emeritus Member WASCLA Board of Directors

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University of British Columbia

Healthcare Consultant

PHECT Nepal

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University of Colorado Denver – Anschutz Med. Campus

Critical Nurse Specialist & Chief of Evidence-based Practice, Madigan Army Medical Center

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Katherine Flynn-O’Brien, MD MPH
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Surgery
Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
Faculty, Institute for Health and Equity, Medical College of Wisconsin
Assistant Trauma Medical Director, Children’s Wisconsin

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Critical Care Anesthesiology Consultant

Mayo Clinic

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Research Interests: Outcomes in subarachnoid hemorrhage and outcomes in traumatic brain injury.

Senior Consultant

Nepal Burn and Cleft Center

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Associate Clinical Professor, Surgery-GI, Trauma and Endocrine Surgery

University of Colorado School of Medicine, Medical Center of the Rockies, Loveland, Colorado, UCHealth Medical Group

Section Manager, Injury and Violence Prevention Program,

Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division

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Senior Registrar (Plastic Surgeon)

Nepal Burn and Cleft Center

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Program Director, INSIGHT REACH
Neuroanesthesia Medical Director
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, School of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University

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Assistant Equity Officer

Public Health Seattle & King County, Equity & Community Partnerships

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Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services
Injury Prevention
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Assistant Professor, Division of General and Thoracic Surgery

Director, Pediatric Surgery Global Health Program

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

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Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco

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