Ellen H. Taliaferro, MD, FACEP, is the Medical Director of the Trauma Foundation in San Francisco, California. She is co-president and co-founder of Physicians for a Violence-free Society (PVS), a non-profit organization dedicated to helping physicians, other health care providers, and individuals play an active role in reducing violence in our society.
Dr Taliaferro is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and completed a Pew Fellowship in Health Policy at UCSF. She is recognized as one of the nation’s leading violence prevention experts and has educated thousands of physicians on violence prevention, through courses, lectures, and publications. She co-authored The Physicians Guide to Domestic Violence.
The James D. Mills Outstanding Contribution to Emergency Medicine Award was presented to Dr. Taliaferro in 1995 in Washington, D.C. In September 1996, the American Association of Women Emergency Physicians presented Dr. Taliaferro with the AAWEP Violence Prevention Award for developing programs to reduce violence in America. In March of 1999, The Dallas Morning News, in celebration of Women’s History Month, published an article on The Texas 100. In this article, Dr. Taliaferro was included as one of 100 notable Texas women in recognition of her work as a physician and author working to break the cycle of domestic violence.
