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Joseph Simonetti MD, MPH
Associate Professor (SOM); Director of Mentorship and Education (FIPI, SOM); Assistant Director of Education & Training, Injury and Violence Prevention Center (CSPH)
- Injury & Violence Prevention Center
- Internal Medicine (SOM)
Joseph Simonetti, MD, MPH is an addiction medicine physician and health services researcher, with a focus on firearm injury prevention. He is the director of mentorship and education for the Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative for the CU Anschutz School of Medicine, an investigator in the Injury & Violence Prevention Center at the Colorado School of Public Health, and an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Dr. Simonetti is also a clinical investigator in the Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention and the Denver-Seattle Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care at the Veterans Health Administration.
Dr. Simonetti was awarded a VA HSR&D Career Development Award to develop and pilot test a Veteran-centered lethal means safety suicide prevention intervention. He has also received research funding from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, and several philanthropies. He has served as an invited member to multiple national workgroups to provide guidance on research and policy efforts on firearm injury and suicide prevention.
Areas of Expertise
Veteran Health, suicide prevention, firearms
Education, Licensure & Certifications
- Addiction Medicine, American Board of Preventive Medicine (current)
- Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine (current)
- Chief Medical Resident, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 2012
- MPH, Health Services Research, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2012
- Internal Medicine Residency, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 2011
- MD, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH 2008
Resumes/CV:
Awards
- Editor’s Choice Manuscript, Psychiatric Services [2024]
- Outstanding Research Accomplishments Team Award, Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative, 2024 Military Health System Research Symposium, Orlando, FL [2024]
Affiliations
- Director of Mentorship and Education, Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
- Assistant Director of Education & Training, Injury and Violence Prevention Center, Colorado School of Public Health
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
- Investigator, Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention, VHA
- Investigator, Denver-Seattle Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care, VHA
- Attending Physician, MIRECC Substance Use Disorders Treatment Program