Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan Health
Patrick Carter, M.D., is an emergency physician at Michigan Medicine, a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School and of Health Behavior & Health Education at the School of Public Health, and co-director of the U-M Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention. He is also part of the leadership team for the Firearm Safety among Children and Teens (FACTS) Consortium, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Health Lab
Over the past decade there's been an 87% increase in firearm-involved fatalities among children and teens in the U.S. But there are also strategies and tools to stop and reverse this troubling trend.
Health Lab
Data shows most school shooters get their guns from home, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of firearms in households with teens has increased.
