Presenter Profile
Lindsay D. Clukies, MD, FAAP
Associate Trauma Medical Director
Co-Director, Emergency Medical Services
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
St. Louis Children's Hospital
Washington University in St. Louis
lindsayedavidson@wustl.edu
Dr. Clukies is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at St. Louis Children's Hospital. She completed her undergraduate degree at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and medical school at New York Medical College. She went on the pediatrics residency and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis/St. Louis Children's Hospital where she stayed on as faculty. She is the associate trauma medical director and has particular interests in injury prevention, clinical guidelines, firearm injuries and pre-hospital care. When she is not working she is keeping busy with her 3 sons and 3 rescue dogs.
Presentations
Firearm Safety
Lindsay D. Clukies, MD, FAAP
Amanda Batlle, MSN
The Struggle is Real: Starting and Maintaining a Firearm Safe Storage Program at Your Institution
Isabell Sakamoto, MS, CHES
Lindsay Clukies, MD, FAAP
Sofia Chaudhary, MD
Sandy McKay, MD
Kirsten Bechtel, MD
Best practices from the literature suggest that providing locking and storage devices to parents who are firearm owners is helpful in promoting safe firearm storage, especially during a behavioral health crisis in their child. This may reduce the likelihood of future injury or death from a firearm. However, many children’s hospitals do not have such programs in place. This workshop aims to help participants learn from program managers who have successfully started such programs at their institutions so that barriers and facilitators to program success can be disseminated amongst workshop participants. Additionally, workshop leaders will assist participants in drawing up a preliminary plan to initiate a firearm safety program at their respective institutions.
1. Understand the rationale for programs that provide locking and storage devices to parents who are firearm owners.
2. Develop program goals, values, and mission and identify key messaging to meet the needs of the community/institution.
3. Become familiar with barriers and facilitators to a program initiation within a hospital system (e.g., political, administrative, financial).
4. Determine who your key stakeholders are to initiate and sustain a program.
5. Learn how to engage with legal leadership at your institution.
6. Learn what various distribution mechanisms are available (e.g., community events, patient bedside, outpatient and inpatient settings, Emergency Department, universal hospital screening, at-risk screening).