Field Hearing on "A Public Health Crisis: The Gun Violence Epidemic in America"
The Subcomittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce held a field hearing on Thursday, October 3, 2019, at 9:30 a.m. CT in the Great Hall of Kennedy King College, 6301 South Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60621. The hearing is entitled, "A Public Health Crisis: The Gun Violence Epidemic in America."
Key Documents
Memorandum from Chairman Pallone to the Subcommittee on Health
Opening Statement of Subcommittee Chairwoman Eshoo as prepared for delivery
Livestream
Witnesses
Spencer Leak, Sr.
President and CEO
Leak and Sons Funeral Home
Testimony
Niva Lubin-Johnson, M.D.
Immediate Past President
National Medical Association
Norman Kerr
Director of Violence Prevention
City of Chicago
Pastor Brenda K. Mitchell
Mother of Kenneth D. Mitchell, Jr.
Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr., M.D., M.P.H.
Chief, Section for Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Founding Director, Trauma Center
University of Chicago Medicine
Ronald Stewart, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Director of Trauma Programs
American College of Surgeons Commmittee on Trauma