Dr. Edward E. Cornwell III This is Me

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   Dr. Edward Cornwell, Chief of Adult Trauma and Professor, Johns Hopkins

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   Edward E. Cornwell III, M.D., is a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and chief of adult trauma surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.Cornwell's pioneering research in the care of critically ill and injured patients has changed the way some trauma centers treat patients with gunshot wounds.His experience and research in this field have led him to become one of medicine's preeminent lecturers on trauma care and violence prevention, especially in regard to youth violence.Through his outreach project, "Hype vs.Reality," he strives to educate our nation's youth about the false images and messages the media present in glamorizing a culture of violence.Cornwell, who recently served as president of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons, has received numerous awards and citations for his research and teaching in trauma and critical care, as well as for his efforts in education, outreach and violence prevention.

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   Published on: 8/13/2007   Last Visited: 8/13/2007

   Dr. Edward E. Cornwell III
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   Dr. Edward E. Cornwell III serves as associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.He holds the position as chief of the Adult Trauma Center at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.These are lofty titles with prestige and income to go with them.Yet, he is an angry black man. In the ER, he sees so many young black men coming through.He says, "Some we can save others come dead on arrival.For every 12 gunshot wounds, one is dead on arrival.Ten gunshots are to the head or to the chest or both."
   
   Cornwell has lots of experience with gunshot wounds.He cites where he has worked in trauma centers over the last 19 years."I have been at Howard University Hospital, Los Angeles and now Baltimore."
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   Starting with this same thesis in 2004, Dr. Cornwell was a primary member of Johns Hopkins researchers who followed 97 boys and girls ages 7 to 17.
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   Dr. Cornwell played a prominent role two years ago in giving home-town boy makes good, NBA star Carmelo Anthony a platform to recant his don't snitch message.
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   The project, Cornwell's "Hype v. Reality", was the then Gov.
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   Cornwell was there to give his message.
   
   The dynamic surgeon continues to hammer home that exposing at-risk youth, especially between the ages of 10 and 14 to the realities of being shot, to real photos and videos of gunshot victims can alter these youth's beliefs and hopefully behavior.
   
   Looking at the larger picture, the passionate doctor reveals how he thinks glamorizing shooting can be staunched.Cornwell alluded to the strategy of the late Cong.
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   In passionate tones, Cornwell says, "We have allowed a culture to be defined by those who don't have the right."His finger points to record producers who glamorize the violence and make a killing in more ways than one.You get the feeling that he also does not think too kindly of some of the artists."The answer is to shine the spotlight on them," he says.He insists that we need a culture change.
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   Cornwell sits on the board of the New Song Learning Center.
   
   Other heroes for Cornwell are "the kids who are beating the odds and those young people who persist in school despite being ridiculed because of it."He thinks that peak efforts to help change this negative culture should peak between the ages of 10 and 14.He thinks that there has to be a movement of like- minded people to deal with culture change.
   
   The enterprising doctor has created a nonprofit organization to create a public service announcement highlighting the "Hype v. Reality" video that shows Cornwell in action, and a critically wounded young black bedridden man telling some youngsters that the gang life filled with shootings is no life to lead.Anyone who deals with at-risk youth needs to obtain it.
   
   Whether you agree or not with Dr. Cornwell's philosophy and ideas, you have to love and respect his passion connected to his action.