Introduction:


Theodore A. Calianos, II, MD, FACS 
President, 2022-2023, Massachusetts Medical Society

Ted Calianos is a practicing plastic surgeon in Mashpee. He was in private practice for several years prior to joining Medical Affiliates of Cape Cod (MACC), the multispecialty group practice of Cape Cod Healthcare (CCHC), and serves as its medical director. He serves on numerous committees at Cape Cod Healthcare. Dr. Calianos has been a member of the Medical Society since 1999. Dr. Calianos serves as the co-chair of the Working Group on Sustainability. He served as the chair of the Committee on Legislation and alternate trustee to the Medical Society and a member of the Committee on Finance. He is a longtime active member of the Barnstable District Medical Society, where he has served as district president and is currently the district treasurer. He was named the Barnstable District Medical Society Community Clinician of the Year in 2018. He is also an MMS delegate to the American Medical Association and is the vice-chair of the delegation. He has been honored with an AMA Foundation Leadership Award.

Faculty:

 
Catherine Barber, MPA

Ms. Barber is a senior researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health’s Injury Research Center. She led the prototype for the CDC’s National Violent Death Reporting System and is the founding director of Means Matter, which disseminates research and interventions aimed at reducing a suicidal person’s access to highly lethal suicide methods. A hallmark of Means Matter is bringing together gun owners and suicide prevention groups to collaborate on local solutions. She and Elaine Frank wrote the original CALM-Online (Counseling on Access to Lethal Means) and have adapted it for various clinical and community groups around the country. She is a co-founder of the original Gun Shop Project and wrote the nation’s first suicide prevention curriculum for use by firearm instructors. She is the recipient of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Allies in Action Lifetime Achievement Award.

  
Christopher Barsotti, MD, FACEP, FAAEM

Dr. Barsotti is the founding CEO of the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM) at Aspen Institute, the country’s leading organization using a public health approach to address firearm injury in the United States. He is also a community-practice emergency physician serving patients in western Massachusetts, southern Vermont and upstate New York, and a certified 4-H youth rifle instructor.  Dr. Barsotti is the immediate past chair of the Trauma and Injury Prevention Section of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), vice chair of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Committee on Violence Intervention and Prevention and a member of the Committee on Preparedness, and the American College of Surgeons Firearm Strategy Team. He has contributed to numerous consensus agendas on priorities for firearm injury reduction, including at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine; the American Bar Association; the American College of Surgeons; the American Academy of Pediatrics; the ACEP Technical Advisory Group for Firearm Research; and the MMS-MA Attorney General’s Office working group on gun safety.

  
Eric Goralnick, MD, MS, FACEP

Dr. Goralnick is focused on improving patient care in two main areas: ensuring equitable access to healthcare for our most vulnerable patients and supporting collaborations between the civilian and military medical communities. He has served in various operational roles at the departmental, hospital and systems level within Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mass General Brigham. He recently completed the George W. Bush Institute Stand to Veteran Scholar program. He has co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles, and his team’s work has been featured in many international, national and local media outlets. He is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the faculty lead for the Harvard Medical School Civilian Military Collaborative, the emergency medicine lead for the Brigham and Women’s Center for Surgery and Public Health, the Civilian Military Advisor for the Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation, and Ariadne Labs Associate Faculty Member and a US Navy veteran. He is also currently serving as the chair of the Disaster Medicine Section of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and as chair of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Committee on Public Health.