Hospital-based Injury and Violence Prevention Programs: The Trauma Center Guide for all Healthcare Professionals

This book offers the first comprehensive insight into hospital-based injury and violence prevention programs and describes a public health approach for the integration of population-based injury prevention into trauma centers.  

This book meets the need for a public health informed approach, as a majority of hospital-based injury and violence prevention programs are positioned within hospital systems driven by patient-centered, acute care models. Significant variability in administration, staffing and reimbursement structures across trauma centers has historically hindered standardization of injury prevention program structure and the role of the injury prevention professional.

Topics in the book include the history and development of hospital-based programs, the need and process for developing data-driven and evidence-based injury prevention interventions, building trauma center capacity for outreach through partnerships, developing prevention efforts using trauma-informed care approach, community based research and program evaluation, and the role of advocacy in injury and violence prevention. 

The multidisciplinary team of authors offers a collaborative approach to the implementation and development of Hospital-based Injury and Violence Prevention Programs which will serve acute care nurses, trauma program managers, hospital administrators, trauma surgeons, hospital-based injury prevention professionals, and local public health professionals.

Christy Adams RN, MPH, PhD has served as Coordinator for the Injury and Violence Prevention Program at the University of California, Davis Medical Center since 2007. Dr. Adams is certified as a Child Passenger Safety Technician Instructor, Matter of Balance Master Trainer, and a Stepping On Master Trainer. Her prior clinical nursing career encompassed 17 years of clinical experience in trauma, critical care, emergency care, and air medical transport. In her role as Program Coordinator, Dr. Adams has developed public health informed injury prevention interventions and community partnerships focusing on senior fall prevention, traffic safety, youth violence intervention, and childhood safety. She is program administrator for the UC Davis Health Wraparound hospital-based violence intervention program. Her professional service includes contributions to local, state, and national injury prevention efforts. Dr. Adams facilitates the California Injury Prevention Coordinators Network for Injury Prevention Professionals working at trauma centers across the state. She is a member of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant advisory committee and the CDPH Crash Medical Outcomes Data advisory committee. She is also a member of the Western Pacific Injury Prevention Network guidance council. Dr. Adams served as the chair for the American Trauma Society (ATS) Injury Prevention Council from 2018-2022 and is lead faculty for the ATS Injury Prevention Coordinators course.

Glen Tinkoff, MD, FACS, FCCM is currently the System Chief for Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio, an regional health care system serving northeast Ohio. Dr. Tinkoff has an appointment as a professor of surgery at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.  Prior to coming to University Hospitals, Dr. Tinkoff served as trauma medical director of the Level 1 trauma center and vice chair of surgery at Christiana Hospital in Newark, DE.  He also served as the medical advisor to the state trauma system for Delaware’s Division of Public Health for 16 years. 

Dr. Tinkoff is currently the president-elect of the American Trauma Society.  He has also served as chair of the injury prevention committees of both Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, as well as the former chair of the Trauma Prevention Coalition, which represents the major professional trauma organizations through promoting collaborative efforts and developing effective strategies in injury and violence prevention. For these efforts, Dr. Tinkoff was awarded the 2014 National Safety Council’s Surgeon’s Award for Service to Safety.  He has numerous peer reviewed publications and invited lectures on clinical issues in acute care surgery, trauma center and systems administration and management, and injury prevention and control.