Clinical Programs and Practice | Center for Gun Violence Solutions

Our Mission

The clinical programs and practice team was formed in the fall of 2022 to connect clinicians, researchers, and educators across the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Nursing to help translate evidence-based strategies for violence and injury prevention into clinical practice and clinical training. Since that time, a diverse group of faculty and staff have joined efforts to advance the tripartite mission of Johns Hopkins Medicine as it relates to violence and injury prevention: improving education for all clinicians, supporting research and strengthening collaboration, and building evidence-based clinical programs to serve our patients.

Teaching

Members of the team have partnered with educators and program leaders across the institution to provide violence prevention education in more than ten graduate medical education programs and in graduate nursing education programs, leading efforts to develop curricula and training programs.

Patient Care

Team faculty are leaders in the Johns Hopkins Break the Cycle Violence Intervention Program, the multi-school Suicide Prevention Center, and injury prevention programs. Members work not only to provide the highest quality care to their own patients but also to ensure access to evidence-based, trauma-informed services by patients and families impacted by violence.

Research

Team members lead practice-changing research funded by NIH and CDC as well as numerous foundations on secure firearm storage, ERPO implementation, intimate partner violence, trauma-informed care, and community-based and hospital-based violence prevention.

Our Clinical Programs and Practice Team

Katherine Hoops, MD MPH

Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Associate Professor

Katherine Hoops is Director of Clinical Programs and Practice. She is a pediatric critical care physician studying how clinicians can engage in firearm safety counseling to promote equity and reduce violence.

Nate Irvin, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine, Associate Professor

Nathan Irvin is an emergency physician whose research focuses on hospital based violence prevention programs and trauma informed care.

Paul Nestadt, MD

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Associate Professor

Paul Nestadt is a psychiatrist whose research focuses on the epidemiology of suicide with particular attention on downstream factors such as lethal means/ firearm access and opioid use.

Tim Carey, JD

Center for Gun Violence Solutions, Law & Policy Advisor

Tim Carey is an attorney who uses his expertise in constitutional law and public health research to draft, analyze, advocate for, and defend violence prevention policy across the nation.

Joanna S Cohen, MD

Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, Associate Professor

Joanna S Cohen is a pediatric emergency medicine physician whose research focuses on safe firearm storage intervenions in the Emergency Department.

Rebecca Fix, PhD, MS

BSPH - Department of Mental Health, Assistant Professor

Rebecca Fix is a clinical psychologist whose research focuses on secondary and tertiary prevention of adolescent violence among survivors of violence.

Isam Nasr, MD

Division of Pediatric Surgery, Assistant Professor

Isam Nasr is the Pediatric Trauma Medical Director and Surgeon within the Department of Surgery and Johns Hopkins Children's Center, who specializes in the advanced treatment treatment of trauma and critical care injuries among children.

Michelle Patch, PhD, MSN, BSN, RN

School of Nursing, Assistant Professor

Michelle Patch is an advanced practice clinical nurse specialist and nurse-scientist whose research focuses on health care responses to intimate partner violence and assault-related mechanisms including strangulation, head trauma, and firearm use.

Joseph Sakran MD, MPH, MPA

Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery, Associate Professor

Joseph V. Sakran is Director of Emergency General Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Sakran is widely known for building diverse coalitions and advocacy efforts within public health and policy communities. He is dedicated to reducing health disparities among marginalized populations, and advancing public policy that alleviates structural violence in low-income communities.

Barry Solomon, MD, MPH

Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics, Professor

Barry Solomon is a general pediatrician whose research focuses on innovations in pediatric primary care to prevent childhood injuries and address the social determinants of health.

Madhu Subramanian, MD

Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery, Assistant Professor

Madhu Subramanian is a trauma surgeon whose work focuses on translating evidence into policy at the hospital-level, aimed at reducing subsequent injury and improving patient outcomes.

Carol Vidal MD, PhD, MPH

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Assistant Professor

Carol Vidal is a child and adolescent psychiatrist whose research focuses on behavioral and substance use addictions, and their associations with depression and injuries in adolescents.