conference program. - National Medical Council On Gun

Caring For Patients At Risk For Gun Violence:
Medical, Ethical, Legal Issues.
A CME-accredited course and conference.
Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1441 NE 2nd Avenue, Portland OR
March 14-15, 2015
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential
Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
through the joint providership of the Oregon Medical Association and The
National Medical Council on Gun Violence. The Oregon Medical Association
(OMA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical
Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Since 1960 more than 1.3 million Americans have
sustained mortal gun in juries in suicides, unintentional
injuries and intentional assaults, and another nearly 3
million have survived injuries with guns. Public health
research has shown that the rate of gun mortality and
morbidity is directly related to gun availability, which
varies by region and multiple demographic factors.
Gun violence imposes a significant burden on the
American health care system. Direct costs for gun
injuries totals more than $6 million per day, and nonfatal gun wounds are the leading cost of uninsured
hospital admissions, with roughly half this cost borne
directly by the public. While most Americans view gun
violence solely as a crime issue, in fact it is a broadbased public health issue for which clinicians need
better tools to identify and treat patients at risk for gun
violence.
By participating in this program, you should be able
to:
· Explain the impact of gun violence on individuals and
communities from clinical and public health viewpoints.
· Recognize histories and symptoms that might indicate
risk for gun violence.
· Discuss gun violence with patients without
compromising legal or ethical constraints.
· Describe technologies that reduce gun lethality.
Faculty
Philip Cook, Sanford Chair of Economics, Duke
University.
Stephen Hargarten, MD—Chair, Dept. Emergency
Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Member,
Institute of Medicine.
Stephen Teret, JD—Co-Director, Johns Hopkins
University Center for Law and Public Health.
David Hemenway, PhD - Director, Harvard University
SPH Injury Control Research Center.
Harrison Alter, MD— Director, Levitt Center for
Social/Emergency Medicine, Oakland, CA.
Robert Sege, MD—Vice President, Medical
Foundation, Health Resources in Action.
Deborah Azrael, PhD - Harvard University SPH Injury
Control Research Center.
David Clark, JD—Chair, Standing Committee on Gun
Violence, American Bar Association.
Liza Gold, MD—Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Christopher Barsotti, MD—Dartmouth/Hitchcock
Emergency Division, Bennington, VT.
Jahan Fahimi, MD—Dept. of Emergency Medicine,
UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA.
Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, MD—Department of
Epidemiology, University of Washington.
The Oregon Medical Association designated this course for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA
Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the
extent of their participation in the activity.
Further registration and conference information is available at: www.nmcgv.org.