arowhanirahbar

Dr. Ali Rowhani-Rahbar is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington. He leads the Violence Prevention Section of the Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center. His substantive area of research includes the study of causes, correlates, and consequences of firearm injury. Dr. Rowhani-Rahbar has served on the Advisory Board of the National Medical Council on Gun Violence, Technical Advisory Group on Firearm Research of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and Firearms Subcommittee of Safer Homes Task Force at Forefront (an organization housed at the University of Washington devoted to suicide awareness and prevention). He has published on the effectiveness of interventions to promote safe firearm storage, risk of injury, crime, and death following firearm injury hospitalization, impact of firearm laws on firearm injuries, and access to firearms in home among adolescents at high risk of suicide. He currently leads a randomized trial to test the effectiveness of a structured community outreach program in improving the health and well-being of patients with gunshot wounds presenting to the Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

May 2016