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John M. Violanti

Expertise:

• Police psychology and health, health risks of law enforcement, including a study that shows that police officers are eight times more likely to commit suicide than to be killed in the line of duty

Dr. Violanti’s research has focused on a number of topics including assessment of psychological and biological indicators of chronic workplace police stress; subclinical cardiovascular and metabolic disease in the Buffalo Police Health Study; line-of-police-duty deaths: survivor responses and departmental policies; and the epidemiology of police suicide.

A 23-year veteran of the New York State Police, Violanti also has conducted studies that show that car-phone users face increased accident risk and that tie the use of radar guns to cancer in police officers.