Dr. Punch is a trauma surgeon and the Executive Director and founder of Power 4 Stl and “The T”. He also serves as Medical Director at the Bullet Related Injury Clinic, a community-based free clinic that focuses on the experience of the Black masculine body. In the wake of the Ferguson Uprising, LJ moved to St. Louis to join the faculty at the School of Medicine at Washington University, but has since left academia. The threefold focus of his career is education, trauma, and equity.
In this episode, Punch joins Eric Reiter and Bethany Copeland, of the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, to discuss bringing institutional resources into the community, bullet injuries as a public health crisis, and how medicine can be inclusive and humanizing.
