Texas Doctors for Social Responsibility

09/11/2025

Tomorrow at 12 PM CST, we’re proud to host Dr. Archie Bleyer, a national leader in young adult cancer care and an activist for the prevention of firearm violence.
His upcoming talk will shed light on a crisis we cannot ignore—the alarming rise in su***des among young people in Texas and across the U.S., and the role fi****ms play in making these tragedies even more deadly.
This is a conversation for families, educators, healthcare professionals, and community members who care about protecting the next generation. 💙

👉 RSVP here: https://bit.ly/TDSRWebinar

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09/08/2025

We’re proud to host Dr. Archie Bleyer, a national leader in young adult cancer care and a strong advocate for youth health. His upcoming talk shines a light on an urgent issue: the alarming rise in su***des among young people in Texas and across the country.

As Dr. Bleyer shares, “Behind every su***de statistic is a young life cut short—and a family left searching for answers.”

This conversation is about more than numbers—it’s about saving lives and supporting families.

08/28/2025

Please call you representatives and ask them to take action!

06/10/2025

TDSR Board Members Dr. Luz Perez Prado, Dr. Ricardo Villarreal and Dr. Jaime Estrada attended Baker Institute's "Preventing Firearm Injury Through Purpose and Policy 2025" at Rice University in Houston on Friday, June 6, 2025. The event was organized by our friend Dr. Sandra McKay. Dr. Archie Bleyer, member of our Gun Violence Prevention Task Force participated in the panel on Su***de Prevention and our friends Dr. Rithika Proddutoor and Saami Baig in the Youth panel, and Texas Representative Vikki Goodwin and Senator Molly Cook in the Legislative panel. The program was excellent, and the speakers did an outstanding job. Su***de by firearm is becoming the main cause of death of our young and veterans.

02/14/2025

Thank you to the attendees to the Texas Doctors for Social Responsibility's (TDSR) Public Health Lunch Conversations showing of the panel on "Gun Safety Education’s Role in Preventing Firearm Violence" on Friday, January 31, 2025, via zoom. Link: https://lnkd.in/g8nYSvM7.
This was part of the Texas Gun Violence Prevention Forum hosted by TDSR at the Texas Capitol on September 27, 2024. Please join us for the showing of the inspiring second panel, "Texas Youth Gun Violence Prevention Advocacy", on Friday, February 28th at 12 PM. Registration link in the flyer below. Moderator Jasir Rahman and panelists will be online to comment and answer your questions.

01/29/2025

As you may know, gun violence is a public health epidemic in our country due for the most part to the indiscriminate availability of fi****ms. Also, gun violence is now the most common cause of death in children and young people. On Friday, September 27, 2024, Texas Doctors for Social Responsibility or TDSR hosted a Texas Gun Violence Prevention Forum (GVP) at the Texas Capitol in Austin to highlight the human cost of firearm violence in our State, to ask legislators to pass common-sense laws aimed to keep fi****ms from individuals at risk of harming themselves and others, and to educate the public on firearm safety storage particularly at home to keep them from children and teens. This Friday at 12 PM we are showing the recording of the first panel of this GVP forum entitled Gun Safety Education’s Role in Preventing Firearm Violence. Dr. Meredith Davenport, moderator of the panel will be at hand to answer questions during and after the presentation. Please join us and help spread the word.

09/29/2024

TDSR would like to thank the in person and online attendees to our recent Texas Gun Violence Prevention Forum at the Capitol in Austin on September 27th. Also, our deepest thanks and appreciation to our speakers, sponsors and partners for their continued encouragement and support, and to our planning committee for their hard work and dedication which made this event a success. By being at our Texas house, the Capitol, we wanted to make a statement to the establishment and the next legislature that bipartisan common sense gun reform policies are urgently needed to save lives in our State. We also believe that this event was a solid step towards finding common purpose as a nation that needs to act on solutions instead of normalizing gun violence. The complete recording of the event will be available soon in our website www.texasdoctors.org and YouTube page.

09/24/2024

Our gun violence prevention forum at the Capitol in Austin is this Friday, September 27th. Join us in person or online. Registration and further information on the attached invitation's links, or at www.texasdoctors.org. Please share this with your contacts.

09/17/2024

Join our Gun Violence Prevention Forum in person or online at the Texas Capitol on Friday, September 27th, starting at 8:30 AM. This is a free event. Registration links in the invitation flyer below. We are looking forward to seeing you in Austin or online.

Our Gun Violence Prevention Forum at the Texas Capitol is around the corner. Please join us in person or online. Registration links are in the invitation below. Also, there's a link to the program on our website. Our goal is to continue promoting community-grounded conversations on the need for a public health approach to firearm violence, and how it can be prevented by advancing safety education, advocacy work, and common sense bipartisan legislative initiatives.

09/17/2024

Our Gun Violence Prevention Forum at the Texas Capitol is around the corner. Please join us in person or online. Registration links are in the invitation below. Also, there's a link to the program on our website. Our goal is to continue promoting community-grounded conversations on the need for a public health approach to firearm violence, and how it can be prevented by advancing safety education, advocacy work, and common sense bipartisan legislative initiatives.

09/15/2024

The worsening shortage of staffing during the summer months exacerbates the cruel and unusual punishment that inmates in non-air-conditioned Texas jails suffer.

Guard shortage turns up heat on inmates

09/12/2024

Are you concerned about firearm violence in our State? Join Texas Doctors for Social Responsibility's upcoming Texas Gun Violence Prevention forum in person or online at the Capitol Conference Center in Austin, on Friday, September 27, 2024. Join a community-grounded conversation on the need for a public health approach to gun violence and how it can be prevented by advancing gun safety education, advocacy work, and common sense bipartisan legislative initiatives.