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	FICAP VISITS WHYY's FRESH AIR with TERRY GROSS

Doctors Go on Offensive Against Gun Wounds After years of treating patients in the emergency room, C. William Schwab and Therese Richmond co-founded the Firearm and Injury Center at Penn in an effort to systematically reduce the epidemic of gunshot wounds in the United States.
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"We are a group of clinician scientists who bring a unique perspective to the problem of firearm injury. We believe it is a complex problem that
requires an interdisciplinary scientific approach", explain Terry Richmond, PhD, and C. William Schwab,MD, of FICAP.

Curbing the Toll of Gun Violence looks at FICAP's unique approach to violence and injury research. Fall 2005

C. William Schwab, MD, and Therese S. Richmond, PhD, CRNP, had seen more than enough in the trauma centers several hundred victims of gunshot wounds, year after year. Schwab and Richmond wanted to halt the violence, but they knew they needed impeccable scientific data to support intervention efforts and policy changes. So they created FICAP, the Firearm & Injury Center at Penn.
Fighting the Bullet - Summer 2003

		"Firearm suicide in rural counties is as important a public health problem as firearm homicide in urban counties. Policymakers should become aware that intentional firearm deaths affect all types of communities in the United States." Branas CC, Nance ML, Richmond TS, Schwab CW. Urban-rural shifts in intentional firearm death: Different causes, same results. American Journal of Public Health. 2004. 94(10):1750-1755.

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