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Please join the us for a virtual presentation by Rebecca Cunningham, M.D., Emergency Medicine Professor and Director of the Injury Prevention Center at the University of Michigan, on Tuesday, March 17, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm ET. The webinar is free and open to the public.
Register: https://obssr.od.nih.gov/behavioral-health-and-injury-prevention-the-emergency-department-as-a-window-to-community-and-population-health/
Presentation Overview:
This presentation will provide an overview of violence prevention among Emergency Department patients including the CDC best practice program, SafERteens. Participants will understand the longitudinal outcomes of Emergency Department youth in regard to substance use and violence including how to utilize the SAFETY score to predict risk for firearm injury. Dr. Cunningham will also review the history of firearm injury prevention research and the capacity building of the NICHD-funded FACTS grant.
Presenter Biography:
Rebecca Cunningham, M.D., is the interim vice president for research at the University of Michigan (U-M), where she is responsible for fostering the excellence and integrity of research across all three campuses. As interim vice president, Dr. Cunningham leads the Office of Research, whose mission is to catalyze, support and safeguard U-M research.
Over the course of her career, Dr. Cunningham's research has focused on injury prevention, opioid overdose, substance misuse prevention and public health. As a lead investigator, she has secured more than $50 million in continuous support from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies to identify ways to improve health services. Dr. Cunningham has authored or co-authored more than 170 scholarly publications and a book, and she works to translate her research for greater societal impact. She has served on the Michigan Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse Commission, and often provides guidance and expert testimony across multiple levels of government.
Dr. Cunningham directs the U-M Injury Prevention Center, one of ten U.S. injury control research centers funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address urgent injury issues through research, education and outreach. She also leads a consortium of 25 researchers across 12 universities and health systems that aim to improve firearms safety through an injury prevention approach.
In 2019, Dr. Cunningham was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine also awarded Dr. Cunningham with its Excellence in Research Award in 2019.
The recording of this webinar will be available with closed captioning on OBSSR's website approximately two weeks following the webinar: https://obssr.od.nih.gov/behavioral-health-and-injury-prevention-the-emergency-department-as-a-window-to-community-and-population-health/
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