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UC Davis Health System

Garen J. Wintemute, M.D.

Clinical/Research Interests

Garen J. Wintemute is a national expert on gun violence and public attitudes about guns. He has served as a consultant for the National Institute of Justice; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; World Health Organization; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and American Red Cross. Wintemute has conducted and published findings from numerous studies regarding gun accessibility, connections between gun ownership and violence, and other related subjects. His research focuses on the nature of violence and development of effective violence prevention measures.

Title:

 Professor
Director of the Violence Prevention Research Program
Attending Physician-Emergency Department

Specialty:

 Emergency Medicine

Address:

 UC Davis Medical Center
2315 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95817

Phone:

 (916) 734-5010

Education:

 UC Davis School of Medicine
Davis, California
M.D. 1977

Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
B.S. 1973

Board Certifications:

 American Board of Family Medicine, 1980

Select Recent Publications:

Wintemute GJ, Cook PJ, Wright MA. Risk factors among handgun retailers for frequent and disproportionate sales of guns used in violent and firearm-related crimes. Injury Prevention, 11:357-363.

Wintemute GJ, Romero MP, Wright MA, Grassel KM. The life cycle of crime guns: A description based on guns recovered from young people in California. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 43:733-742.

Romero MP, Wintemute GJ, Wright MA, Parham CA. Shall issue policy and criminal activity among applicants for permits to carry concealed firearms. Injury Prevention, 9:367-9.

Wintemute GJ, Wright MA, Drake CM, Beaumont JJ. Subsequent criminal activity among violent misdemeanants who seek to purchase handguns: Risk factors and effectiveness of denying handgun purchase. Journal of the American Medical Association, 285:1019-1026.

Wintemute GJ, Parham CA, Beaumont JJ, Wright MA, Drake C. Mortality among recent purchasers of handguns. New England Journal of Medicine, 341:1583-1589.

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