Rebecca Miriam Cunningham

Rebecca Miriam Cunningham (1970) is an American emergency physician and researcher. She is the vice president for research, director of the Injury Prevention Center, and the William G. Barsan Collegiate Professor in the Michigan Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine.

Rebecca Miriam Cunningham
Born1970 (age 50–51)
Children3
Academic background
EducationB.S., Fairfield University
M.D., Thomas Jefferson University
Academic work
InstitutionsMichigan Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine
Main interestsInjury prevention
violence-related injury
substance abuse

Career

Cunningham completed her medical residency in an emergency department near Flint, Michigan, which saw a lot of gun violence.[1] She then joined the faculty at the University of Michigan as a lecturer in 1999.[2]

While growing up, Cunningham witnessed violent abuse by her father toward her mother. After he threatened to kill her mother, her mother bought a hand gun, changed the locks, and sent her older siblings to a foster family.[1] This encouraged her to later lead a federally funded national project called "Firearm Safety Among Children and Teens (FACTS)."[3] In 2010, she published "Screening adolescents in the emergency department for weapon carriage," and later "Firearm Violence Among High-risk Emergency Department Youth After an Assault Injury." She also accepted a position as director of the U-M Injury Prevention Center.[4]

In 2014, Cunningham was appointed the Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine.[5] In this role, she collaborated with other researchers and institutions to produce a website that offers free access to data on guns, as well as training for health care providers.[6] A few years later, she was promoted to associate vice president for research-health sciences in the University of Michigan Office of Research for three years.[2]

Two years later, Cunningham was the recipient of the William G. Barsan Collegiate Professorship.[7] She was also elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine[8] and named interim vice president for research.[9]

References
  1. "Taking Aim". sciencemagazinedigital.org. December 7, 2018. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  2. Lampe, David (April 20, 2017). "Rebecca Cunningham appointed AVP for research-health sciences". record.umich.edu. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  3. Urban, Kylie (April 18, 2018). "NIH Funds a Research Consortium to Address Firearm Deaths Among U.S. Children and Teens". /labblog.uofmhealth.org. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  4. Urban, Kylie (July 23, 2019). "U-M Injury Prevention Center Works to Accelerate the Science of Injury Prevention & Safety". labblog.uofmhealth.org. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
  5. "New Associate Chair for Research". medicine.umich.edu. June 23, 2014. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  6. "Q&A with Rebecca Cunningham: The importance of research on firearm safety". ihpi.umich.edu. November 16, 2018. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  7. "William G. Barsan Collegiate Professorship Officially Approved". medicine.umich.edu. July 10, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  8. "Three U-M faculty elected to National Academy of Medicine". news.umich.edu. October 21, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  9. Broekhuizen, Kim (April 23, 2019). "Rebecca Cunningham named interim vice president for research". record.umich.edu. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
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