Recent Presentations
Cheney RA. Firearm Injury: Public Health, Prevention and Research. University Wives Club. Philadelphia, PA. November 28, 2006.
Cheney RA, Wiebe DJ, Errico P, Richmond TS. Firearms and Violence: Issues for Elder Health and Well-Being in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Institute on Aging Sylvan M. Cohen 2005 Annual Retreat with Poster Session, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. June 8, 2005.
Richmon TS, Wiebe D. Firearms and the elderly. Philadelphia Corporation of Aging. Philadelphia, PA. December 14, 2006.
Settanni S, Richmond TS , Cheney RA, Grossman MD. Using Public Health Data to Inform a Gun Crime Enforcement Initiative (PSN). CDC National Injury Prevention and Control Conference: Meeting Challenges, Sharing Solutions. Denver, CO. May 9-11, 2005.
Alphabetical by Lead Author/Presenter
Ackerson T, Kassam-Adams N, Winston F, Ruzek J, Richmond TS. Screening for risk of PTSD or depression in injured adults. International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies. 2005.
Baroni SA, Richmond TS, Cheney RA, Grossman M. Using Public Health Data to Inform a Gun Crime Initiative (PSN). 2005 National Injury Prevention and Control Conference. Denver, CO. May 2005.
Branas CC. Trauma resource allocation – policy issues and the TRAMAH. The Urban Institute, Health Policy Center. Washington, DC. May 2006.
Branas CC. The Philadelphia Gun and Alcohol Study. Johns Hopkins University, Center for Injury Research and Policy. Baltimore, Maryland. March 2006.
Branas CC. Trauma recidivism. Discussant, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Scientific Assembly. Orlando, Florida. January 2006.
Branas CC. Trauma care access in the United States. Health Resources and Services Administration. Rockville, Maryland. September 2005.
Branas CC. The Philadelphia Gun and Alcohol Study. Crime Mapping Research Conference, National Institute of Justice, Savannah, Georgia. September 2005.
Branas CC. Web-based evaluation of trauma care systems. American Trauma Society, Washington, DC. July 2005.
Branas CC. Using traditional epidemiologic methods to assess geographic health risks in new ways - The Philadelphia Gun and Alcohol Study. Research Society on Alcoholism. Santa Barbara, California. June 2005.
Branas CC. Environmental Injustice: Still Dumping on the Poor. 57th Annual Conference on World Affairs. Bolder, CO. April 2005
Branas CC. Hate is More Fun Than Compromise. 57th Annual Conference on World Affairs. Bolder, CO. April 2005
Branas CC. Red, Blue, and Purple America: I Won’t Tolerate Intolerant People. 57th Annual Conference on World Affairs. Bolder, CO. April 2005
Branas CC. Party On…Responsibly. 57th Annual Conference on World Affairs. Bolder, CO. April 2005
Branas CC. The Color Purple: Where Red and Blue Meet. 57th Annual Conference on World Affairs. Bolder, CO. April 2005
Branas CC. Youth Violence in America. 57th Annual Conference on World Affairs. Bolder, CO. April 2005
Branas CC. The Philadelphia Gun and Alcohol Study as a model of collaborative community-based research. Pennsylvania Public Health Association. Philadelphia, PA. October 2004.
Branas CC. Reducing firearm injury in small and medium sized cities. American Trauma Society. Arlington, VA. May 2001.
Branas CC. In God We Trust: All others must have data. Firearm Violence Symposium, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST). Tampa, FL. January 2001.
Branas CC. Gun violence in East Central Pennsylvania. Law Enforcement and Coroner's Meeting. Allentown, PA. April 2000.
Branas CC. Using data to inform the prevention of firearm injury. Ohio Prevention Institute. Columbus, OH. March 2000.
Branas CC, Nance ML. Gun death and the rural-urban continuum. University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center (Webinar). Iowa City, Iowa. September 2004.
Branas CC, Nance ML. Gun death and the rural-urban continuum. University of Pittsburgh Center for Injury Research and Control Grand Rounds (Webinar). Pittsburgh, PA. August 2004.
Branas CC, Nance ML, Richmond TS, Schwab CW. Rural versus urban firearm death in the United States: Different causes, same results. Annual National Conference of American Public Health Association (Poster presentation). November 19, 2003.
Branas CC, Richmond TS, Bar CD, Riely MJ, Schwab CW. Firearm homicides and suicides in small to medium-sized cities. Annual National Conference of American Public Health Association. 2003.
Branas CC, Wiebe DJ. Gun violence research: summary of current research and trends. National Crime Prevention Council, US Department of Justice. Philadelphia, PA. January 2003.
Branas CC, Wiebe DJ. Lines of funding, lines of research in firearm injury prevention. American Public Health Association. Philadelphia, PA. November 2005.
Branas CC, Wiebe DJ, Richmond TS, Culhane DP. Neighborhood disorder and the risk of firearm injury. Annual National Conference of American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA. Dec 2005.
Carr BG, Wiebe DJ, Hollander J, Barren J, Datner EM. Recidivism after emergency department discharge for domestic violence. Conference of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Orlando, FL. May 18, 2004.
Carr BG, Wiebe DJ, Branas CC, Schwab CW. Number of gunshot wounds and outcomes in urban firearm injury patients: death and length of hospital stay. Annual National Injury Prevention & Control Conference of the Centers for Disease Control Prevention and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Denver, CO. May 2005.
Carr BG, Winters SE, Chinitz J, Wiebe DJ. Emergency physicians do not adequately document intentional injuries. Annual National Conference of American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA. Dec 2005.
Cheney RA. Global Firearm Mortality: Interpreting International Firearm Mortality Data. Annual Conference of the Population Association of America. Boston, MA. April 1, 2004.
Cheney RA, Weiner NA, Seide MH, Richmond TS, Schwab CW. A measurement framework for firearm research, intervention, and evaluation. APHA. November 12, 2002.
Cotton B, Pryor J, Chinwalla I, Wiebe DJ, Reilly PM, Schwab CW. Respiratory Complications and Mortality Risk Associated with Thoracic Spine Injury. Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Annual Conference. Fort Lauderdale, FL. January 12, 2005.
Cronholm P, Wiebe D. The effects of women’s exposure to violence on preventative healthcare utilization. Penn Summit on Global Issues in Women’s Health. Philadelphia. PA. April 2005.
Datner EM, Wiebe DJ, Brensinger C, Nelson DB. Identifying Pregnant Women Experiencing Domestic Violence in the Emergency Department. Conference of the Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting. (Poster presentation). Salt Lake City, UT. June 17, 2004.
Dunfey M. Need for intentional injury research as a study priority as well as advocate and develop a Violent Death Reporting System in PA. Report to Health Research Advisory Committee. April 21, 2003.
Joe S, Kaplan MS. Firearm-related suicide among young African-American males. Annual National Conference of American Public Health Association. (Poster presentation). November 18, 2003.
Koper CS. Police crackdowns on illegal gun carrying: a systematic review for the Campbell Collaboration.Stockholm Criminology Symposium. Stockholm, Sweden. 2006.
Koper C. Crime Gun Risk Factors: Dealer, Buyer, Firearm, and Transaction Characteristics Linked to Criminal Gun Use. Annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Toronto. November 2005.
Nance ML. Firearm Injuries in Children. John M. Templeton, Jr., Pediatric Trauma Symposium. Pittsburgh, PA. Mar 2005.
Nance ML. Safe Nowhere—Gun Death and the Rural-Urban Continuum. Rural Health Seminar (webinar). University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Sep 2004.
Nance ML. Safe Nowhere—Gun Death and the Rural-Urban Continuum. Injury Control Research Grand Rounds (webinar). Center for Injury Research and Control, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Aug 2004.
Nance ML. Youth Violence. 2nd Annual Intermountain Trauma Network 2004. Salt Lake City, UT. Jul 2004.
Nance ML. Safe Nowhere: Firearm Mortality along the Rural Urban Continuum. Surgical Grand Rounds. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Feb 2004.
Nance ML. Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie and the Glock 9mm Semi-automatic Handgun: The Child in the New Americana. Trauma Care 2003: Benchmarking VII, Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation and the Pennsylvania Committee on Trauma. Carlisle, PA. Oct 2003.
Nance ML. Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and the Glock 9mm Semiautomatic: Growing up in America. Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds. Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, Baltimore, MD. Sept 2003.
Nance ML. Youth Violence. Topics Explored: Pediatric Surgical and Trauma Nursing. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA. Sept 2003.
Nance ML. Fatal Firearm Injuries in Children. John M. Templeton, Jr., Pediatric Trauma Symposium. Philadelphia, PA. March 2003.
Nance ML, Branas CC, Stafford PW, Richmond TS, Schwab CW. Non-intracranial fatal firearm injuries in children: implications for treatment (abstract). Traumacare 2002. Norway. May 2002.
Nance ML, Branas CC, Wiebe DJ, Elliott MR, Schwab CW. Effect of ruralization on unintentional firearm mortality in the United States. Annual National Conference of American Public Health Association. (Poster presentation). November 18, 2003.
Nance ML, Holmes JH, Wiebe DJ. Timeline to operative intervention for solid organ injuries in children. Annual National Conference of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Atlanta, GA. Sept 2005.
Nance ML, Wiebe DJ. Age-related pediatric injury prevention priorities in the United States. Annual Meeting, American Pediatric Surgical Association. Hilton Head, SC. May 2006
Nance ML, Wiebe DJ, Branas BB. Determining injury prevention priorities in the United States. Annual National Conference of American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA. Dec 2005.
Nance ML, Wiebe DJ, Branas CC, Schwab CW. Firearm Mortality in the US Pediatric and Adolescent Population: Variability along the rural-urban continuum. 7th Annual World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion. (Poster presentation). Vienna, Austria. January 2004.
Nance MN, Wiebe DJ, Cullen J, Hendrick HL, Nadkarni V. Pre-ECMO ventilation days and survival in the pediatric population. Annual National Conference of American Academy of Pediatrics, Washington, DC. Oct 2005.
Richmond TS. Optimizing health outcomes of our most vulnerable elders: Care of the critically ill and traumatically injured older adult. Gerontological Society of America. Washington, DC November, 2004.
Richmond TS. Nurses reducing firearm violence through public health. American Nurses Association. Minneapolis, MN. June, 2004.
Richmond TS. Post-traumatic stress after injury and residential fires. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. November 8, 2002.
Richmond, T.S. Using Evidence to Build a Professional Practice Environment: A Community Model to Reduce Firearm Injury. American Nurses’ Association. Philadelphia, PA. June, 2002.
Richmond TS. Firearm violence. Trends in Trauma & Cardiovascular Nursing. April 2002.
Richmond TS. Expert panelist. Joint policy meeting: Firearms and Philadelphia youth. Philadelphia Health Management Corporation. Philadelphia, PA. April 2002.
Richmond TS. Firearm violence: using data as a weapon. Midwest Critical Care Conference. March 2002.
Richmond TS, Ackerson T, Gracias V, Robinson K, Amsterdam J, Hollander J, Shults J, Kauder D. Psychiatric disorders and injury: Effects on short-term disability. 2005 National Injury Research & Control Conference. (Poster presentation). Denver, CO. May, 2005.
Richmond TS, Branas CC, Cheney RA, Schwab CW. The value of distinguishing handgun type in injury research: a brief report. SafeUSA Conference. (Poster presentation). December 3, 2001.
Richmond TS, Cheney RA, Schwab CW. Firearm Injury in a Global Society: Interpreting International Firearm Mortality Data. 7th Annual World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion. (Poster presentation). Vienna, Austria. June 2004.
Richmond TS, Cheney RA, Schwab CW. Firearm injury - understanding an international public health problem. Global Health Council. May 2003.
Richmond TS, Cheney RA, Sitter MH, Dunfey M, Grim SM, Lysek ZR, Grossman MD. Using violent death reporting data to enhance community action to reduce suicide risk. Annual National Conference of American Public Health Association. (Poster presentation). November 18, 2003.
Richmond TS, Kauder D, Shults J, Hollander JE, Gracias V, Robinson K, Ackerson T, Sites FD, Amsterdam JD. Psychiatric Profiles of Individuals Sustaining Minor Injury. 7th Annual World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion. (Poster presentation). Vienna, Austria. June 2004.
Richmond TS, Schwab CW, Branas CC, Riely MJ, Bar CD, Dunfey M. Lessons learned from the medical professionals as advocates program to reduce firearm injuries in small-to-medium sized cities. SafeUSA Conference. (Poster presentation). December 3, 2001.
Schwab C. Injury Science: A Means of Controlling Violence. The Inaugural Paul and Julia Cox Lecture at the Pennsylvania Division of the American Trauma Society. Harrisburg, PA. April 13, 2004.
Schwab CW. Firearm Injury in America: Preserving our Rights; Protecting Our Lives. Department of Neuro Grand Rounds. University of Pennsylvania. September 2, 2004.
Schwab CW. Firearm injury in America: magnitude epidemic and cure. Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. Philadelphia, PA. December 2002.
Schwab CW. Firearm injuries: America’s uncivil war. Distinguished JL Buckingham Lecturer. University of Southern California. May 2002.
Schwab CW. Firearm injuries in America - public health and medical impact. 4th Annual Warren Wetzel Trauma/Emergency Medicine Symposium. Jacobi Medical Center, New York. May 2002.
Schwab CW. Firearm injury in America: protecting ourselves, protecting our rights. Topics in Trauma 2002, Southeastern Pennsylvania Trauma and EMS Symposium. February 2002.
Schwab CW, Cheney, RA. Firearm violence prevention in a hostile world: a research agenda. TraumaLink, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA. March 2002.
Schwab CW, Richmond TS, Riely MJ, Branas CC, Cheney RA, Dunfey M. Effective trauma center partnerships to address firearm injury: a new paradigm. AAST. (Poster presentation). Minneapolis, MN. September 11, 2003.
Wiebe D. Firearms as a public health issue. Bridging the Gaps Annual Seminar. Thomas Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, PA. June 2006 and June 2005
Wiebe D. Neighborhoods, Outlets and Outcomes. Invited Discussant. Panel at the Satellite Session on Small Area Analysis, Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Alcoholism. Baltimore, MD. June 2006.
Wiebe D. Space-time study of adolescents’ daily activities and assault. Poor, young, black and male: a case for national action? Interdisciplinary Seminar. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. April 2006.
Wiebe D. Exposure measurement in violence epidemiology. Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. December 2005.
Wiebe D. Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms: findings and challenges in the epidemiology of violence. Symposium at the National Institute of Justice. Washington, DC. November 2005.
Wiebe D. Research agenda of the Firearm & Injury Center at Penn. Board of Directors Meeting. The Joyce Foundation, Chicago, IL. August 2005.
Wiebe D. Impact of number of gunshot wounds on death and length of stay in urban firearm injury patients. Annual Meeting, American College of Emergency Physicians/Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, PA. April 2005.
Wiebe D. Firearm injury epidemiology. Issues in Penetrating Trauma Nursing Symposium. Division of Traumatology and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. Philadelphia, PA. March 2005.
Wiebe D. The epidemiology and prevention of firearm injury. Medical Student Seminar. Department of Emergency Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA. March 2005.
Wiebe D. The invisible trauma patient: emergency department discharges. Annual Meeting, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Maui, HI. November 2004.
Wiebe D. Firearm injury epidemiology: overview and update. 10th Annual Conference on Trends and Treatment of Trauma. Hamot Shock Trauma, Hamot Medical Center, Erie, PA. October 2004.
Wiebe D. Final Session: Firearm Violence. Bridging the Gaps: Violence Seminar. Thomas Jefferson University. Philadelphia, PA. July 2004.
Wiebe D. The epidemiology and prevention of firearm injury: linking research and clinical practice. Department of Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. July 2004.
Wiebe D. Responses to violence: the role of injury epidemiology. Bridging the Gaps Annual Seminar. Thomas Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, PA. July 2004.
Wiebe D. Philadelphia Gun and Alcohol Study (PGAS). Annual GIS Symposium, Cartographic Modeling Lab. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. June 2004
Wiebe DJ. The uses and consequences of firearms in violence against women. TraumaLink Monthly Forum, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA. May 2003.
Wiebe DJ. Epidemiology Update: Guns in the Home - Risky Business. The HELP Network 8th Annual Meeting, Northwestern University Medical Center. Chicago, IL. April 2004.
Wiebe DJ. The Role of Firearms in Violence Against Women. FOCUS on Health and Leadership for Women through Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Philadelphia, PA. October 16, 2003.
Wiebe DJ. Firearms in US homes and unintentional gunshot fatalities: A case-control study. Annual National Conference of American Public Health Association. November 12, 2002.
Wiebe DJ. Prevalence of firearms and use of firearms in homes of battered women. Annual National Conference of American Public Health Association (Poster presentation). November 11, 2002.
Wiebe DJ, Branas CB, Berlin JA, Morgenstern H. Correcting for bias in case-control studies using non-population-based subjects as controls. Conference of the Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting (Poster presentation). Salt Lake City, UT. June 16, 2004.
Wiebe DJ, Branas CB, Nance ML, Elliot ML, Koper C. Intentional gun deaths and geographic access to gun dealers in the United States. 7th Annual World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion. (Poster presentation). Vienna, Austria. June 2004.
Wiebe DJ, Krafty RT, Koper CS, Nance ML, Elliott MR, Branas CC. Homicide and geographic access to gun dealers in the United States. Annual National Conference of American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA. Dec 2005.
Wiebe DJ, West MP, Cheney RA, Dunfey M, Nance ML, Branas CC. The role of youth fatality review teams in studying and preventing firearm-related deaths: program and policy implications. Annual National Conference of American Public Health Association. (Poster presentation). November 18, 2003.
Wiebe DJ, Weiner J, Conigliaro J, Richmond TS, Branas CC. Follow-up study of US military veterans following a suicide attempt: mortality and causes of death. 8th World Conference on Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion. Durban, South Africa. 2006.
Williams CT, Wiebe DJ, Branas CB. Examining contextual explanations for racial differences in interpersonal firearm violence. Annual National Conference of American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA. Dec 2005.