Co-Director of Research and Advocacy Education
Dr. Kelsey Gastineau, MD, MPH, FAAP is a board-certified pediatric hospitalist in Nashville, TN. Dr. Gastineau graduated from medical school from Indiana University, completed her pediatric residency at the Medical University of South Carolina, and received her Master of Public Health degree during her Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellowship at Vanderbilt.
It was her experience as a pediatric resident, caring for too many children with firearm injuries, now the leading cause of death for children, that inspired her to become a public health researcher and physician advocate specializing in pediatric injury prevention. Her research experience and interests include the implementation of evidence-based, community-focused interventions and secondary database analysis to reduce youth firearm injuries. Her recent publications on this topic include evaluating the increase in pediatric firearm-related hospital encounters during the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating the increasing burden of pediatric mortality and widening racial inequities due to firearm violence, assessing the impact of an AAP-funded gun safety educational platform, and determining healthcare utilization for youth following nonfatal firearm injuries. Dr. Gastineau is the Tennessee American Academy of Pediatrics (TNAAP) Gun Violence Prevention Champion and helps lead the chapter’s gun safety efforts for which she was recognized as the Early Career Physician of the Year in 2023.
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