Clinical Professor
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health | School of Medicine and Public Health
Hometown: Shorewood, WI
Dr. James Bigham is a clinical professor in the UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. His interests include culturally competent firearm injury prevention and compassionate approaches to address vaccine hesitancy. He co-created with a local gun shop owner an innovative hands on firearm injury prevention course titled Lock, Stock and Barrel. He also served as the American Academy of Family Physicians Vaccine Science Fellow in 2022-23 with a focus on vaccine hesitancy. As a primary care physician, he believes in the importance of forging authentic partnerships for the sake of enhancing wellness for our communities.
Talks:
Don’t miss your shot: a compassionate approach to addressing vaccine hesitancy
This talk provides and overview of vaccine hesitancy and outlines a stepwise approach to encouraging vaccine hesitant patients (and parents) to receive recommended immunizations.
Lock, Stock and Barrel: developing clinical skills to promote firearm injury prevention
This talk uses a public health lens to outline the impact of firearms on American communities and provides a culturally competent approach for clinicians and other community members to engage in efforts to reduce the risk for firearm injuries.
Where are you going? A primer on travel medicine
This talk provides an overview of the pretravel clinical consultation. It will provide the audience with the basic outline of important aspects of pretravel care including injury prevention, recommended vaccines and medications specific to travel such as malaria prophylaxis