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COIN Investigators & Staff

COIN Investigators

 

Joseph A Simonetti, MD, MPH
Title: Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
Investigator, Denver-Seattle COIN
Investigator, Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education, and
Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention
Director of Education and Mentorship, Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative,
University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
Assistant Director of Education and Training, Injury and Violence Prevention Center,
Colorado School of Public Health.
Contact: Joseph.Simonetti@va.gov
Location: Denver
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Rocky Mountain MIRECC

 

Joseph Simonetti, MD, MPH is a dually boarded internal medicine and addiction medicine physician and principal investigator at the Denver-Seattle COIN and VA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention. He is also the Director of Education and Mentorship for the Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine and Assistant Director of Education and Training for the Injury and Violence Prevention Center at the Colorado School of Public Health. His primary research focus is on firearm injury prevention, with a specific emphasis on veteran firearm suicide prevention. His works spans a variety of methodologies and approaches, including epidemiologic and health services studies, qualitative methodology, large data approaches, informatics research, as well as clinical trial development, implementation, and evaluation. He is one of the leading national experts on firearm suicide prevention, specifically among Veterans.

Research Interests

 

  • Firearm injury prevention
  • Suicide prevention
  • Natural language processing
  • Clinical trials

Link to Publications and External Websites

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1dmqRSOdJnqQB/bibliography/public/

 

VA Operational Partners I have worked with

 

  • Office of Suicide Prevention
  • Office of Rural Health
  • Office of Primary Care Services
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