James Dodington, MD, CPST, FAAP

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Medical Director - YNHH Center for Injury and Violence Prevention; Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Injury Free Coalition for Kids of New Haven

James Dodington, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and an attending physician in the Pediatric Emergency Department at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital. His research interests include violence prevention, and health disparities research with a focus on community-based participatory research (CBPR). He was the research director for an NIH-funded youth violence prevention project called YouthHaven, in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at Yale. He is currently working with the New Haven Family Alliance, a community-based organization, to develop a Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program at Yale-New Haven Hospital and with Streetsafe Bridgeport, a Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program at Bridgeport Hospital. He is on the Executive Committee, AAP Council on Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention

Contact Information

Email Address:
james.dodington@yale.edu

Mailing Address:
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
PO Box 208064
New Haven, CT 06520-8064