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Christopher Barsotti
Program Director, AFFIRM at The Aspen Institute; Co-Founder, American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine; and Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Berkshire Medical Center
Christopher Barsotti is co-founder and former CEO of the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM), and now program director of AFFIRM at The Aspen Institute. Barsotti is a practicing emergency medicine physician at Berkshire Medical Center, serving patients in western New England and Upstate New York. As a frontline physician, health educator, and certified 4-H youth firearms trainer, Barsotti develops practical, interdisciplinary curricula and programming for violence and firearm injury prevention and harm reduction for diverse audiences and communities. He is a regular contributor to Emergency Medicine News under the column, “Standing AFFIRM.” Barsotti also manages his family's diversified and regenerative livestock farm in Vermont.
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