The Aftermath: Gun Violence as an Epidemic that Tears Through Communities and Across Generations S3 E7

This special edition of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s TeamPeds Talks podcast, FocusED sponsored by the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group.   FocusED is a podcast program that offers listeners unique insight into the broad scope of pediatric emergency care by exploring a variety of emergency care topics through different lenses across the care continuum. 
Nicole Koepke, MSN, CPNP-PC, a nurse practitioner and the chair of the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group will be your host.  She has 20 years of experience as an Emergency Department Nurse Practitioner and is currently working as an innovation specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in their Primary Care Network. 
In this 4 part series we've been focusing on Gun Violence Prevention Strategies, taking an in depth look at the public health crisis of gun violence in the United States.  
In this episode we will be looking at gun violence through a slightly different lens and examining the aftermath: gun violence as an epidemic affecting youth and families across generations.
We are talking with Dr. Dorothy Novick. Dorothy Novick MD is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, and an Attending Physician at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Her advocacy and clinical work center around violence prevention, trauma-informed care and the social determinants of health. She serves as a Practice-Based Scholar with CHOP's Center for Violence Prevention, a board member of the Education Law Center PA, and an Alumni Ambassador for The OpEd Project. Dr. Novick has written extensively about gun violence and childhood trauma, as well as a range of issues affecting the health and safety of families in her care.