Dr. Garen Wintemute is the founding director of the Violence Prevention Research Program and holds the Baker-Teret Chair in Violence Prevention at the University of California, Davis. He also directs the new University of California Firearm Violence Research Center. He was among the first to study firearm violence as a public health problem, and firearm violence remains the primary focus of his research and policy work. He practices and teaches emergency medicine at the UC Davis Medical Center and is a professor of emergency medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine. His current research focuses on violence risk factors and interventions to prevent violence. Trained initially as a biologist at Yale University, Wintemute attended medical school and residency at UC Davis and studied epidemiology and injury prevention at Johns Hopkins University.