Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH - Director
Stephen is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Hargarten has been an active injury control researcher and practitioner for over 25 years. He is one of the first graduates of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health to concentrate on injury. Since that time Dr. Hargarten has published frequently in the peer-reviewed literature on injury topics. His major injury-related activities include injury surveillance, firearm injuries, injury in travelers, and trauma system development. He was the first Chair of the state-wide Committee on Trauma System Development for the State Health Department. In addition to his clinical and research experience with injury control, Dr. Hargarten has a long history of involvement in public policy advocacy for injury control. He was Co-Chair of the State Medical Society's Health of the Public's Council and previously served as Chair of the Society's Injury Prevention Committee (for 9 years). He serves as a Board Member of Advocates of Highway and Auto Safety and serves on Senator Russell Feingold's Regional Health Care Advisory Committee.

Dr. Hargarten serves as the Director of the IRC-MCW and its Administrative Core and as Principal Investigator on the Violence-Related Fatalities and Injuries in Wisconsin research project.