Trauma care professionals C. William Schwab and
Therese Richmond work at the University of Pennsylvania Medical
Center in Philadelphia. After years of treating patients in the
emergency room, Schwab and Richmond have co-founded the Firearm
& Injury Center at Penn in an effort to systematically reduce
the epidemic of gunshot wounds in the United States.
Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center (PCVPC)
A Federal Agency Targets Philadelphia Gun Violence September 26, 2006
Pennsylvania Injury Reporting and Intervention System (PIRIS) Media:
FICAP Media:
September 14, 2007
September 28, 2006
FICAP awarded Penn Provost's Interdisciplinary Seminar Series for Stress and Injury: Integrating Environment, Biology and Behavior. The Provost announces the FY 2006 seminar fund to stimulate the creation of interdisciplinary discussions and connections that could grow into lasting cooperative intellectual efforts and programs. The opportunity is intended to support the Penn Compact’s emphasis on the integration of knowledge.This is the third consecutive year that FICAP has been awarded the Provost award.
- FICAP's Senior Epidemiologist, Charles Branas, elected president of the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, SAVIR (formerly the National Association of Injury Control Research Centers, NAICRC). SAVIR is devoted to promoting scholarly activity in injury control and addressing issues relevant to the prevention, acute care and rehabilitation of traumatic injury. Visit the SAVIR website.
- Drs. Richmond and Schwab have a conversation with
Terry Gross, host of the WHYY and NPR series,
Fresh Air. Click here to learn more! June
15, 2006
- The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Rhoads 5 Surgical Critical Care Team has earned the prestigious Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence, an award given by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the largest specialty nursing organization in the world. The award is specifically designed to recognize the nation’s top hospital critical-care units. Visit their website.
- Philadelphia Inquirer article, Swedish Doctors Get Philadelphia Lesson in Gun Wounds, highlights work of Dr. Bill Schwab and the trauma team at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania's Trauma Center. March 22, 2006
- Curbing the Toll
of Gun Violence looks at FICAP's unique approach to violence
and injury research. Fall 2005
“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.
- FICAP's Director, C. William Schwab, MD is elected president of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
- Shootings Ravage City Neighborhoods, by Nathan Gorenstein, Barbara Boyer and Rose Ciotta of the Philadelphia Inquirer, includes comments by Dr. Charles Branas of Penn's Center for Clinical Epidemiological and Biostatistics and FICAP's Senior Epidemiologist. March 20, 2005
- FICAP's Research Director, Therese Richmond, PhD is spotlighted in School of Nursing Publication, Fall 2004, Vol 7, Issue 2
- Fighting the Bullet: 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. Summer 2003
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An Updated Assessment of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Impacts on Gun Markets and Gun Violence,
1994-2003
- Stopping A Bullet, in the Philadelphia Weekly, takes a look at the work of Drs. Schwab and Richmond and the Firearm & Injury Center at Penn. April 23, 2003
