Join UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood and UCSF’s top experts in gun violence prevention and intervention for a special town hall, Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis.

This virtual town hall, open to the public, will include experts from a variety of perspectives across emergency medicine, research, social and behavioral sciences.

One of the programs to be featured is the Wraparound Project, a hospital-based violence prevention program which partners with community-based organizations to address the root causes of violence. Mike Texada, a Wraparound Project case manager who was featured in the UCSF Magazine article, Beyond the Bullet, in Winter 2019, will join Nancy Anaya, MD, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine, for a discussion about youth violence prevention efforts. Texada was born in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood and learned about life on the streets at an early age.

Kicking off the discussion will be Jaha Fahimi, MD, MPH, an emergency physician and medical director of the adult Emergency Department, whose research and advocacy interests center on firearm violence in the United States. He seeks to better understand its epidemiology, to prevent injury through a public health approach, and to educate other doctors on addressing the firearm injury epidemic at the bedside. An affiliated faculty member of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF, Fahimi will moderate the panel discussion and a Q & A session with the audience.

Joining the panel is longtime UCSF trauma surgeon Andre Campbell, a professor of surgery who has been an outspoken advocate for gun safety having worked on the frontlines at the Emergency Department at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Howard Pinderhughes, professor and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Medicine in the UCSF School of Nursing whose career-long worki includes research and program development in the areas of race relations among youth and adolescent violence prevention and intervention. His research examines problems related to the impacts of structural inequality, racial, class and gender dynamics.

The program agenda is as follows:

Overview of Gun Violence – Jahan Fahimi, Medical Director, Adult Emergency Department, UCSF Health

Youth Violence Prevention –

• Nancy Anaya, Director of Community Outreach, San Francisco Wraparound Project
• Mike Texada, Lead Violence Prevention Professional

Call to Action and Advocacy –

• Anne Marks, Executive Director, YouthAlive and Founder, Health Alliance for Violence Intervention

• Raymond Swanson, Professor, Department of Neurology, UCSF School of Medicine, Neurology Services, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Panel Discussion: Panel discussion moderated by Jahan Fahimi

• Andre Campbell, Professor of Surgery, Vice Chair for Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
• Christopher Newton, Medical Director, Trauma Care Center and Pediatric Surgery, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland
• Howard Pinderhughes, Professor and Chair, Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing
• UCSF Police Chief Mike Denson

Audience Q & A Session: Panel discussion moderated by Jahan Fahimi