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 has been named a "hero of medicine" by Time Magazine.[3] In August 2016, it was reported that he will lead the University of California Firearm Violence Research Center, the first state-funded gun violence research center in the country.[4]

Research

Wintemute 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.[5][1] In 1987, he published a study on accidental gun deaths among children in California, of which 88 occurred between 1977 to 1983. The same study found that in about one-third of incidents, the shooter did not know the gun was loaded or real.[6] At a press conference to announce the study's results, multiple real guns like those involved in the accidental deaths were placed next to toy lookalikes; few of the reporters in attendance could tell them apart.[7] His research on Saturday night special handguns, especially a 1994 study he published entitled "Ring of Fire", has been credited as the main reason for the California government's efforts to impose strict regulations on them.[8] More recently, he has published a study showing that gun owners with an alcohol-related criminal conviction are more likely than gun owners without such a conviction to be arrested for a subsequent gun-related crime.[9]

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. Archived from the original on January 28, 2015. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
  3. ↑ Craft, Cynthia H. (5 July 2016). "For This Man, Reducing Gun Violence Is A Life’s Mission". Kaiser Health News.
  4. ↑ Lambert, Diana (30 August 2016). "UC Davis Medical Center to house first-ever state gun violence research center". Sacramento Bee. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Wintemute, GJ; Teret, SP; Kraus, JF; Wright, MA; Bradfield, G (12 June 1987). "When children shoot children. 88 unintended deaths in California.". JAMA. 257 (22): 3107–9. PMID 3586229.
  7. ↑ Thacker, Paul D. (27 October 2015). "Gun Myths Die Hard". Slate. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  8. ↑ Golden, Frederic (24 June 2001). "Drop Your Guns". Time.
  9. ↑ Ellis, Emma Grey (31 January 2017). "Gun Research Will Get Even More Difficult Under NRA-Friendly Trump". Wired. Retrieved 7 June 2017.


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