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If someone were to ask you what the leading cause of death is among American children today, what would you say? Cancer? Car accidents? Obesity? The answer is firearms. Guns kill more children in our country than anything else. It’s a shocking statistic, no matter your politics. So how do we solve it? Where can we find common ground on one of the most divisive issues in America?
The solution, according to Dr. Gorelick, lies in public health. In Saving Our Kids: An ER Doc’s Common-Sense Solution to the Gun Crisis, Dr. Gorelick unfurls a roadmap that everyone from pediatricians to the general public can follow. The key is taking a fresh look at the issue of guns through the lens of public health and leading the debate away from partisanship and toward reasonable policies that will save children’s lives. As a father, pediatrician, and leader of one of the largest independent pediatric health systems in the United States, Dr. Gorelick has viewed the issue of gun violence up close, from many angles, for many years. All that experience has brought him to one conclusion: we can solve this crisis if we prioritize our children’s health.

Marc Gorelick, MD is the president and chief executive officer of Children's Minnesota, one of the largest independent pediatric health systems int he United States. As a pediatrician, Dr. Gorelick spent twenty-five years treating children-including gunshot victims-in some of our country's busiest emergency rooms. Dr. Gorelick holds an AB in history from Princeton University, completed medical school at Duke University, and earned an MS degree in clinical epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania. He trained in pediatrics at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC, and in pediatric emergency medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Gorelick and his wife live in Minneapolis. They have two grown children.