Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former

health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland.

Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical

health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health

question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes.

Today we head to the emergency department to meet trauma surgeon Dr. Chathen Sathia.

Dr. Satya is the director of the Center for Gun Violence Prevention at Northwell Health in New York.

Our topic is what we should expect from hospitals and health systems

to reduce the rising tide of gun-related injuries.

Let's listen.

Dr. Chaythin Satya, thanks so much for joining me today to talk about gun violence and what we can expect from the healthcare system to combat it.

Now, you are a trauma surgeon.

Yes, yes. Thank you for having me here.

So tell me a little bit about what you do in your job as a trauma surgeon and how it relates to gun violence.

Absolutely.

You know, I think many of us in healthcare, no matter what field we are in, have been impacted by gun violence, whether it be to our patients or our communities.

And as a trauma

surgeon in particular, we have the unfortunate job of having to treat patients with bullet wounds.

My journey started in Chicago, where I trained as a pediatric surgeon, and I still remember

the first week on the job having to treat a baby with a bullet wound. And as one can imagine,

that was pretty horrifying. And unfortunately, happened week after week, after week, and has continued to this present day.

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