Eliminating Race-based Medicine, Trends in Handgun Carriage – Episode 113

Joseph L. Wright, MD, MPH, FAAP, is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Capital Region Health within the University of Maryland Medical System. He previously served as Chair of Pediatrics at the Howard University College of Medicine and Senior VP for Community Affairs within the Children's National Health System. He maintains adjunct appointments as professor of pediatrics and health services administration at the University of Maryland Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Wright has been recognized by the American Academy of Pediatrics for his leadership and advocacy work with the 2011 Fellows Achievement Award and the 2013 Jim Seidel Distinguished Service Award, both given for exceptional contributions to the disciplines of injury prevention and emergency medicine. Dr. Wright is immediate past chair of the AAP Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the AAP Task Force on Addressing Bias and Discrimination. He is currently an at-large member of the AAP Board of Directors and sits on the Board Equity Committee.

Naoka Carey is a doctoral candidate in Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, where she conducts research on the ways that policies and neighborhood contexts influence adolescent development. Prior to her doctoral work, she was an attorney and advocate for youth in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems and earned a JD from New York University School of Law and a master's degree in Education from Harvard University. She currently serves as a Senior Advisor for the Columbia University Justice Lab’s Emerging Adult Justice Project and as member of the Massachusetts Juvenile Justice Data and Policy Board.