Urgent Matters

Megan Ranney MD MPH is a practicing emergency physician and researcher, focusing on the intersection between digital health and injury prevention. She is the Director and founder of the Brown Emergency Digital Health Innovation (EDHI) program (www.brownedhi.org). Dr. Marian Betz conducts research in injury prevention, with specific interests in the role of healthcare providers in (1) older driver safety and (2) suicide prevention. Her current focus is on the use of mixed methods to developed a tiered evaluation system for older drivers, and she has also worked extensively in the area of “lethal means restriction” for suicide prevention. For more information: http://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(16)30932-5/fulltext?rss=yes http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2595514  https://afsp.org/about-suicide/firearms-suicide-prevention/ https://www.annals.org/article.aspx?doi=10.7326/M15-2905