Patrick Carter, MD
Co-Director, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, U-M Medical School / Associate Professor, Department of Health Behavior & Health Education, School of Public Health / Director, Injury Prevention Center, University of Michigan
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Emergency Medicine Profile
Community Violence Intimate Partner Violence Suicide Unintentional Injury

Dr. Carter is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine (School of Medicine) and Health Behavior & Health Education (School of Public Health) at the University of Michigan. He is the Co-Director of the UM Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, the Director of the CDC-funded University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center, and part of the leadership team for the NICHD-funded Firearm Safety among Children and Teens (FACTS) Consortium. Dr. Carter’s research is within the field of firearm injury prevention, specifically the development, testing, and implementation of emergency department (ED)‐based interventions to decrease firearm violence, youth violence, and associated risk behaviors such as substance use among high‐risk urban youth populations. He also has a line of research focused on using intensive longitudinal data, collected via innovative m-health applications, to characterize epidemiological and contextual factors underlying adolescent risky firearm behaviors. He is the past Chair of the ACEP Trauma and Injury Prevention Section, serves as an Assistant Editor for the Annals of Emergency Medicine, and has served as a member of the Technical Advisory Group focused on developing a firearm research agenda for the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Carter has research funding as a PI or Co-I on grants from NIDA, NIAAA, CDCP, and NICHD, all focused within the field of violence and injury prevention.
Dr. Carter's Firearm-Related Work
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Publications
Media Mentions
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U-M participates in national conference that highlights latest firearm-related harms research
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Media Mention: U-M expert talks crime trends, root causes after violent week
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Media Mention: Kids who survive gun injuries experience increases in pain and psychiatric disorders
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Can hospitals help to reduce violence?