Garen Wintemute, M.D., M.P.H.

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Director, Violence Prevention Research Program, University of California, Davis

Garen Wintemute's interest in preventing gun violence grew out of his work as an emergency-room doctor. "Most people who die from gunshot wounds are pronounced dead at the scene; we never see them in the ED. If we want to decrease the number of people dying from gun violence, we need to prevent them from being shot."

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