SAFE Speaker Bureau

We are pleased and honored to introduce our SAFE Speaker Bureau, which includes medical professionals, academic researchers, and advocacy leaders to share their expertise and experience with medical students also working on the gun violence epidemic. If your SAFE chapter would like to reserve a speaker for an event, please fill out this form and await instructions from SAFE HQ.

Michelle Sandberg, MD

  • Pediatrician at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

    Affiliated Clinical Instructor at Stanford University School of Medicine in California

Kelly Traver, MD

  • Currently Retired

    Previously Internal Medicine at Stanford/Menlo Medical Clinic

Cornelia Griggs, MD, MPH

  • Pediatric Surgeon and Critical Care Specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital

    Assistant Professor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School

Brian H. Williams, MD, FACS

  • Trauma Surgeon in Texas, USAF Veteran, Former Congressional Health Policy Advisor, and Nationally Recognized Expert in and Healthcare Disparities

Allison Volkman

  • Executive Director of Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic (SAFE). Lives and work in Wisconsin.

Julie Parsonnet, MD

  • SAFE Co-Founder, Board President, and Chair

    George deForest Barnett Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University

James Bigham, MD, MPH

  • Clinical Professor​, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Traci Kurtzer, MD

  • Former Clinical Assistant Professor, (OBGYN) and Medical Director of Trauma Informed Care and Education at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Sandra L. McKay, MD, FAAP

  • Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Division Chief of Community and General Pediatrics at McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Amy Barnhorst, MD

  • Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis School of Medicine

    Director of the BulletPoints Project, state-funded effort to develop a firearm violence prevention curriculum for healthcare providers

Gary Slutkin, MD

  • Professor of Epidemiology and and International Health at University of Illinois at Chicago

    Founder of Cure Violence Global

Gregory Jackson, Jr.

  • President of The Rocket Foundation

    Executive Advisor and Former Executive Director for Nonprofit Organization Community Justice Action Fund

    Former Deputy Director of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention

Garen J. Wintemute, MD, MPH

  • Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine and Baker–Teret Chair in Violence Prevention and Founding Director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis.

    Founding director of the California Firearm Violence Research Center, the nation’s first publicly funded center for research in the gun violence prevention field

Arkaprava Deb, MD

  • Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Public Psychiatry Education at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

Michael Hirsh, MD, FACS, FAAP

  • Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics and Assistant Vice Provost for Health and Wellness Promotion at University of Massachusetts School of Medicine

Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD

  • Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University

Kelly M. Henry, MD

  • Lecturer of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

Marian Betz, MD, MPH

  • Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine

    Founding Director of the Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative and Deputy Director of the the Injury & Violence Prevention Center at University of Colorado

Stephen Hargarten, MD

  • Professor of Emergency Medicine, Founding Dean of Global Health, and The Founding Director of The Comprehensive Injury Center (CIC) at the Medical College of Wisconsin

Andrew Lithen, MD

  • Aerospace Medicine Resident, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth/Naval Aerospace Medical Institute

    Former SAFE Chapter Leader at East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine