Position Title
Associate Director, Centers for Violence Prevention
Director, BulletPoints Project
Vice Chair for Community Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry
Professor, Emergency Medicine
Vice Chancellor’s Endowed Chair for Violence Prevention
Position Title
Associate Director, Centers for Violence Prevention
Director, BulletPoints Project
Vice Chair for Community Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry
Professor, Emergency Medicine
Vice Chancellor’s Endowed Chair for Violence Prevention
Bio
Amy Barnhorst is an emergency and inpatient psychiatrist whose experience doing violence and suicide risk assessments led to her interest in firearm injury prevention. Drawing on her previous career as an educator, she is active in medical education and works with both state and federal legislators to craft evidence-based firearms and mental health laws.
Barnhorst is a nationally recognized expert on these topics and her work has been featured in the New York Times, Psychology Today, and other media outlets.