Discover how guns work and the impact of gun shots on the body with trauma surgeon Dr. Alec Beekley of Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals. This is an interactive session intended to introduce professionals and advocates, whom may never have interacted with a gun before, to different types of firearms, and a basic understanding of ballistics.
-----
Dr. Alec C. Beekley is a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Military Academy. He earned his medical degree at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and completed his residency at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington. Following residency, he spent 14 years on Active Duty in the U.S. Army where he deployed on 3 separate occasions to Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. On his last deployment with the 28th Combat Support Hospital, he served as the director of the Deployed Combat Casualty Research Team. Dr. Beekley has authored or contributed to several articles and books on combat casualty care. He performed the initial published clinical study on tourniquet use in Operation Iraqi Freedom. After separating from the Army, Dr. Beekley took a position as a general surgeon in the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Division and Bariatric Surgery Division at Thomas Jefferson University, and is now a Professor in the Department of Surgery

Beekley, MD, FACS, Alec

Jefferson Digital Commons

CODE RED:B A T T L I N G  T H E  P L A G U E  O FG U N  V I O L E N C EA day-long conference to educateabout gun violence and create anetwork of health care providerscommitted to policy solutionsJUNE 21, 2018With Keynote Addresses from David Hemenway, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health & Allison Anderman, Managing Attorney, Giffords Law Center to Prevent Violence #CodeRedPHLMORNING SESSION8:30 - 9:00am9:00 - 10:00am8:00 - 8:30am Check-in at Hamilton LobbyWelcome and IntroductionsMorning Keynote:  Overview of existing gun policies and their evidenceDr. Stanton Miller, Executive Director, Jefferson Center for Injury Research andPrevention, Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health Dr. Cheryl Bettigole, Director, Division of Chronic Disease Prevention, PhiladelphiaDepartment of Public Health Rep. Chris Rabb, State Representative, Pennsylvania House of RepresentativesDr. David Hemenway, Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center,Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health10:00 -10:15am Break10:15 - 11:00am Epidemiology of gun violence in Pennsylvania Raynard Washington, Chief Epidemiologist, Philadelphia Department of PublicHealth11:00 - 11:40am Teva Interns, College of Physicians of Philadelphia Youth Panel11:40am - 11:50pm Break for boxed Lunch in Hamilton Lobby 12:00 - 1:00pm Afternoon Keynote:  Pennsylvania gun policies and nationwide comparison Allison Anderman, Managing Attorney, Giffords Law Center to Prevent GunViolence #CodeRedPHL11:50 - 12:00pmSteve Klasko, CEO,Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health  An Address from Steve Klasko, CEOAFTERNOON SESSION1:05 - 2:00pm2:00 - 2:30pm1. Storytelling and Advocacy for Healthcare ProfessionalsBreak-out session discussion groupsJefferson Alumni Hall - Atrium Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, Chair, Montgomery County Board of Commissioners,and members of the Jefferson Eakins Workshop team, Drs. Stanton Miller,Stephen DiDonato, Rachel Brandoff, and Astra Czernyin respective rooms1:00 - 1:05pm Move to Break-out Session2. Preventing Gun Violence in PediatricsHamilton Building - Connelly Auditorium Dr. Rachel Myers, Research Scientist, Violence Prevention Initiative,  Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania3. Anatomy of Guns & the Physics of Gun InjuryHamilton Building - Lobby Dr. Alec Beekley, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals 2:45 - 3:15pm Debrief of discussion groupsHamilton Building - Connelly Auditorium 2:30 - 2:45pm Move to Connelly Auditorium3:15 - 4:00pm Concluding RemarksHamilton Building - Connelly Auditorium Shira Goodman, CeaseFire PA Dr. Thomas Farley, Philadelphia Department of Public Health Dr. Charles Yeo, Chair of Surgery, Thomas JeffersonUniversity and Jefferson Health Jim Kenney, Mayor of PhiladelphiaBREAK-OUT SESSION DESCRIPTIONSAn interactive workshop dedicated to increasing healthcare providers awareness of howstorytelling can serve as a strategy to cope with provider stress. The workshop willengage healthcare providers in a storytelling exercise about gun violence, motivatingparticipants to advocate for relevant policy. This workshop will be led by Dr. ValerieArkoosh, Chair, Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, and members of theJefferson Eakins Workshop team, Drs. Stanton Miller, Stephen DiDonato, RachelBrandoff, and Astra Czerny. This session will be located in Jefferson Alumni Hall - Atrium 1. Storytelling and Advocacy for Healthcare Providers :  Learn about the Violence Prevention Initiative at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia,which has become a national and global model for hospital-based and community-delivered violence prevention through educational programming in schools and thecommunity, screening for risk in clinical settings, and direct casework with injured youthand their family members. This session will be led by Rachel Myers, Research Scientist,Violence Prevention Initiative at CHOP. This session will be located in Hamilton Building - Connelly Auditorium2. Preventing Gun Violence in Pediatrics Discover how guns work and the impact of gun shots on the body with trauma surgeonDr. Alec Beekley of Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals. This is an interactive sessionintended to introduce professionals and advocates, whom may never have interacted witha gun before, to different types of firearms, and a basic understanding of ballistics. This session will be located in Hamilton Building - Lobby3. Anatomy of Guns & the Physics of Gun Injury #CodeRedPHLSPEAKERSAllison Anderman became the managing attorney at Giffords Law Center in April 2017, where one of her primaryfocuses is partnering with cities and counties around the country to improve local gun laws. A leading expert onfirearms policy and legislation, Allison frequently speaks at conferences and events around the country and hasanalyzed and debated gun laws on CNN, HuffPost Live, and other news programs. Allison’s radio appearancesinclude national NPR, KQED in San Francisco, KCRW in Los Angeles, and many other regional stations. She hasbeen quoted extensively in the press, including by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, theGuardian, and many others. Allison Anderman, Managing Attorney Dr. Valerie Arkoosh was unanimously elected as Chair of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners onNovember 17, 2016 succeeding former Commission Chair Josh Shapiro. First appointed to fill a vacancy on theCommission in January 2015, Arkoosh won election to a full four-year term in November 2015 and served asCommission Vice Chair until her election as Chair.  Montgomery County, located in southeastern Pennsylvania, isthe third most populous county in Pennsylvania with over 823,000 residents. Dr. Arkoosh is bringing innovativereforms to county government.Valerie Arkoosh, MD, MPHDr. Alec C. Beekley is a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Military Academy.  He earned his medicaldegree at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and completed his residency atMadigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington. Following residency, he spent 14 years on Active Duty in theU.S. Army where he deployed on 3 separate occasions to Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation IraqiFreedom. On his last deployment with the 28th Combat Support Hospital, he served as the director of the DeployedCombat Casualty Research Team. Dr. Beekley has authored or contributed to several articles and books on combatcasualty care. He performed the initial published clinical study on tourniquet use in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Afterseparating from the Army, Dr. Beekley took a position as a general surgeon in the Trauma and Acute Care SurgeryDivision and Bariatric Surgery Division at Thomas Jefferson University, and is now a Professor in the Department ofSurgery.Alec Beekley, MD, FACS Rachel Brandoff, Ph.D., ATR-BC, ATCS, LCAT, is an assistant professor and coordinator of the Art TherapySpecialization in Community and Trauma Counseling at Jefferson University in Philadelphia. She has taught atseveral schools and enjoys training trauma-responsive art therapists and counselors.  She is one of the founders ofthe Expressive Therapies Summit, a NYC-based professional training conference, and served for a decade as theEthics Chair for the board of the New York Art Therapy Association (NYATA). Rachel has experience with a widearray of clinical populations in both inpatient and outpatient settings, and has specialized with individuals and familiescoming out of crisis situations and facing major life transition.  Rachel has maintained a private practice for 12 yearsand provides supervision and consultation to practicing art therapists.Rachel Brandoff, PhD, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCAT #CodeRedPHLSPEAKERSThomas Farley is Commissioner of Health for the City of Philadelphia. From 2009 to 2014, Dr. Farley wasCommissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.  As Health Commissioner, Dr. Farleyadvocated for innovative public health policies, including making the city’s parks and beaches smoke-free, prohibitingprice discounting of cigarettes, raising the legal sales age of tobacco to 21, capping the portion size of sugary drinkssold in restaurants at 16 ounces, and restricting the burning of air-polluting dirty fuels to heat buildings. He iscoauthor of Prescription for a Healthy Nation (Beacon Press) with RAND Senior Scientist Deborah Cohen, andauthor of Saving Gotham: A billionaire mayor, activist doctors, and the fight for 8 million lives (W.W. Norton).Thomas Farley, MD, MPHDavid Hemenway, Ph.D., Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is Director of the HarvardInjury Control Research Center. In 2012, he was recognized by the Centers for Disease Control as one of the twenty"most influential injury and violence professionals over the past 20 years." He has written more than 120 journalarticles on gun violence plus a book, Private Guns Public Health (U Michigan Press 2006, 2017). Dr. Hemenway hasreceived ten Harvard teaching awards.   David Hemenway, PhD Shira Goodman is the Executive Director of CeaseFirePA, a statewide organization to take a stand against gunviolence. She has extensive experience in the nonprofit world and joined the organization following ten years as apublic policy advocate working for better courts in Pennsylvania and a career in labor law. She is involved in thePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations, and serves on the board of the Legal Intelligencer andseveral community nonprofits.Shira Goodman, CeaseFirePA Dr. Stephen DiDonato holds his Ph.D. in International Psychology from The Chicago School of ProfessionalPsychology. Stephen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the State of Pennsylvania and holds hisNational Certified Counselor (NCC) credential. Stephen has clinical expertise working with children, families, andcommunities who have been exposed to potentially traumatic events. Specifically, Stephen’s clinical focus has beenon enhancing the adaption to the inherently complex traumatic environments that children and families face inunderserved communities. Stephen is a co-founder of the Jefferson Eakins Writers’ Workshop - a literary workshopat Jefferson Center for Injury Research & Prevention dedicated to the stories of injury and all its victims.Stephen DiDonato, PhD, LPC, NCC Rachel Myers, PhD, is a Research Scientist and Violence Prevention Initiative Fellow at Children's Hospital ofPennsylvania. She has worked on several studies related to both intentional and unintentional pediatric andadolescent injury prevention. The Violence Prevention Initiative (VPI) at CHOP is an evidence-based effort to protectyouth from violence that has become a national and global model for hospital-based and community-deliveredviolence prevention. Rachel K. Myers, PhD Raynard Washington, PhD, MPH, is the Chief Epidemiologist at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. In thisrole, Dr. Washington is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data that provides actionableinformation on the health status of Philadelphia residents. Dr. Washington coordinates and provides guidance toepidemiologic activities across department divisions and works internally and externally to enhance existing andestablish new health surveillance systems He also leads the Community Health Assessment and other strategicinitiatives. Dr. Washington earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Pittsburgh. Raynard Washington, PhD, MPH SPEAKERSThe Teva Pharmaceuticals Internship Program is a year-long STEM and social-justice oriented program aimed atintellectually-curious Philadelphia high school students who have been directly affected by violence and want tomake a difference in their communities. Teva interns are selected based on experiences with community violenceand STEM career interests. This year’s Teva interns have achieved 100% graduation from high school and 100%college acceptance. They received a total of over $1.2M in aid and scholarships. 2018 Teva Interns: Teva Interns, College of Physicians of Philadelphia Amelia Benmara  Ohoud Abdelaziz Destiny Branche Steffi Delphin Ryan Le Kevin Marara Isaac Newman  Brionna Robinson Jamira Rogers Kavi Sterling Khaleh Walker Keianni Wilson Marco Mitchell Dominique Gatta   Quincy Greene has been the Youth Support Coordinator at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, in the Centerfor Education since 2015.  Quincy has a background in Mathematics, Biostatistics and Public Health.  Quincy Greene, College of Physicians of Philadelphia REMARKS BYCONFERENCE ORGANIZERSDr. Cheryl Bettigole is the Director of Get Healthy Philly, the Division of Chronic Disease Prevention of thePhiladelphia Department of Public Health.  She is a board certified family physician and has previously served as theChief Medical Officer of Complete Care Health Network, a federally qualified community/migrant health center insouthern New Jersey, and as a Family Physician and Clinical Director with Philadelphia’s City Health Centers, whereshe saw patients for more than 12 years.  She is also a Past-President of the National Physicians Alliance. Cheryl Bettigole, MD, MPH Dr. Miller is the founding Executive Director of the Jefferson Center for Injury Research and Prevention within theAcute Care Surgery/Trauma division of the Department of Surgery at Sidney Kimmel Medical College. He is ClinicalAssistant Professor of Surgery and Emergency Medicine at Jefferson. Dr. Miller has served as an Attending Surgeonat Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Germantown Hospital. He served as Medical Director at Our Lady ofLourdes Medical Center in Camden, NJ, where he also directed the Osborn Surgical Clinic for the uninsured from2003-2010. He has also served as physician at the Princeton University Health Services. He is a 1980 graduate ofJefferson Medical College and received his MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in2002.Stan Miller, MD, MPH #CodeRedPHLCharles Yeo, MD, FACS, Chair of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University and JeffersonHealth Mayor Jim Kenney, City of Philadelphia Steve Klasko, CEO, Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health Representative Chris Rabb, Pennsylvania House of Representatives Martha Langley Ankeny is the Director of Learning Initiatives in the Jefferson Center for Teaching and Learning, andDeputy Director of the Jefferson Center for Injury Research and Prevention (JCIRP).  For seventeen years atJefferson, Martha has facilitated educational resources and initiatives such as the Health Mentors Program and theJCIRP.Martha Langley Ankeny, MEd Notes

Anatomy of Guns, Mike The Gun Guy Weisser, and the Physics of Gun Injury

Abstract

Similar works

Full text

Available Versions

Jefferson Digital Commons