Caring For Patients At Risk For Gun Violence: Medical, Ethical, Legal Issues. A CME-accredited course and conference. Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1441 NE 2nd Avenue, Portland OR March 14-15, 2015 This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the Oregon Medical Association and The National Medical Council on Gun Violence. The Oregon Medical Association (OMA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Since 1960 more than 1.3 million Americans have sustained mortal gun in juries in suicides, unintentional injuries and intentional assaults, and another nearly 3 million have survived injuries with guns. Public health research has shown that the rate of gun mortality and morbidity is directly related to gun availability, which varies by region and multiple demographic factors. Gun violence imposes a significant burden on the American health care system. Direct costs for gun injuries totals more than $6 million per day, and nonfatal gun wounds are the leading cost of uninsured hospital admissions, with roughly half this cost borne directly by the public. While most Americans view gun violence solely as a crime issue, in fact it is a broadbased public health issue for which clinicians need better tools to identify and treat patients at risk for gun violence. By participating in this program, you should be able to: · Explain the impact of gun violence on individuals and communities from clinical and public health viewpoints. · Recognize histories and symptoms that might indicate risk for gun violence. · Discuss gun violence with patients without compromising legal or ethical constraints. · Describe technologies that reduce gun lethality. Faculty Philip Cook, Sanford Chair of Economics, Duke University. Stephen Hargarten, MD—Chair, Dept. Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Member, Institute of Medicine. Stephen Teret, JD—Co-Director, Johns Hopkins University Center for Law and Public Health. David Hemenway, PhD - Director, Harvard University SPH Injury Control Research Center. Harrison Alter, MD— Director, Levitt Center for Social/Emergency Medicine, Oakland, CA. Robert Sege, MD—Vice President, Medical Foundation, Health Resources in Action. Deborah Azrael, PhD - Harvard University SPH Injury Control Research Center. David Clark, JD—Chair, Standing Committee on Gun Violence, American Bar Association. Liza Gold, MD—Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine. Christopher Barsotti, MD—Dartmouth/Hitchcock Emergency Division, Bennington, VT. Jahan Fahimi, MD—Dept. of Emergency Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA. Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, MD—Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington. The Oregon Medical Association designated this course for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Further registration and conference information is available at: www.nmcgv.org.