Garen Wintemute

Garen J. Wintemute is an emergency medicine physician at UC Davis Medical Center, where he is the director of the Violence Prevention Research Program. He conducts research in the fields of injury epidemiology and the prevention of firearm violence. He is one of a few public health experts researching gun violence in the United States--he has said that there are only a dozen researchers in the United States who study this subject, including him. He has funded this research in part through more than $1 million of his own money. In August 2016, it was reported that he will lead the University of California Firearm Violence Research Center, the first state-funded gun violence research center in the country.