Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Tom Kottke and Anthony Butler about unintentional firearm injuries and gun violence prevention.Dr. Kottke first joined Health Partners in 2004 and is now the Medical Director for Well-Being for the health plan, Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota, and a health services researcher at the HealthPartners Institute. Additionally, Dr. Kottke is a strong advocate for gun violence prevention.Anthony serves on the Protect Minnesota board - a coalition of 16 statewide groups committed to working together to prevent gun violence. Find out more about Anthony and Protect Minnesota at https://protectmn.orgListen along as Dr. Tom Kottke and Anthony Butler share their thoughts on unintentional firearm injuries and gun violence prevention efforts.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's episode is on unintentional firearm deaths for children, unfortunately, between the ages of birth and 17. We've got two great guests with us today. We'll get to them in just a moment. I'd like to thank our great crew. Our research crew includes Maddy Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, and Sheridan Nygaard.
Sheridan also provides us with some great marketing skills, so thank you to all of you. Also, I'd like to thank Matthew Campbell, who's our production great assistant, who gets these shows out to you, the listening audience, in perfect form, along with some great music. So thank you to Matthew as well. And then, of course, there's
Clarence Jones, who's my colleague and co-host of the show, who is down in Memphis right now in the airport. So thanks for working it out so that you can still be on the show today, Clarence. It's always great to have your voice. Finally, I'd like to thank Human Partnership, who is our sponsor for these shows. It's a great community health organization.
We recommend that you check them out at humanpartnership.org along with our website as well, which is healthchatterpodcast.com. So today, a sad topic, but yet I'm glad that we're talking about it because just merely talking about it and bringing it to you, the listening audience, will heighten our awareness about this topic of unintentional firearm deaths. We have two great guests.
I'll introduce one and then I'll let Tom introduce another guest who's a colleague of his. I've known Tom Kaki, Dr. Tom Kaki, we figured for close to 40 years. Tom is an absolutely wonderful colleague, a true clinical expert in the area of cardiology, but also A wonderful colleague in the public health arena.
I can't really begin to tell you how many arenas Tom has been involved with in the public health arena. and has really been a strong voice connecting the public health side of all these different issues that we deal with, with the medical aspects. It's been a pleasure, truly a pleasure having him as a colleague, and we still connect to this day.
So Tom, thanks, many thanks for being on our show today. Tom, I'll let you introduce Anthony.
Okay, thanks, Dan. Anthony Butler is a colleague of mine. We both serve on the Protect Minnesota board. Anthony's chair of the C3 board. And Protect Minnesota is the only statewide, exclusively Minnesota gun safety organization. Firearms Safety Advocacy Group. We do collaborate with groups like Moms Demand Action, Giffords, et cetera. Anthony was born in Harlem in New York City.
And although living with both parents, he was always in trouble as an adolescent. He attended five different high schools in the greater NYC area before dropping out at age 17 and getting his GED. Growing up, Anthony knew the value of hard work.
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