Webcasts

December 11, 2024

Jimmy Widdifield, Jr., LPC
Project Director
National Children’s Advocacy Center

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to summarize common characteristics of children and teens with problematic sexual behavior.
• Participants will be able to apply research to dispel common myths about children and teens with problematic sexual behaviors.
• Participants will describe strategies to enhance professional response to cases of children with problematic sexual behavior.

Handout:

• PPT presented by Jimmy Widdifield The Essential Information about Children and Teens with Problematic Sexual Behavior (17 pages, 1.2MB PDF) NCAC Children and Adolescents with Problematic Sexual Behavior- Resources for Professionals (PDF)

November 13, 2024

Lindsey Crusan-Muse
Director, St. Peter's Crime Victim Services
St. Peter’s Health Partners

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss five short term and long term psychological and physical impacts of domestic violence on children.
• Identify five protective factors for children who are exposed to domestic violence to mitigate negative outcomes.

October 16, 2024

Ann S. Botash, MD
Founder & Director, CHAMP
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, Pediatrics
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to:
• Describe the needs for comprehensive medical evaluations and treatment for children suspected of being abused and maltreated.
• Review and analyze an assessment of the current state of medical care for child abuse in New York State.
• Discuss strategies and recommendations to improve New York State medical care for children suspected of being abused.

Handout:

• PPT presented by Ann Botash, MD, Organizing for Change: Strengthening Child Abuse Medical Care in NYS (21 pages, 2.3 MB.)

March 13, 2024

Gillian Hopgood DO, FAAP
Child Abuse Pediatrics
Stony Brook Children’s Hospital
Suffolk County Child Advocacy Center

Kimberly Alba, PsyD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Child Division
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University

Learning Objectives:

• Explore the medicolegal and ethical challenges of caring for a child/adolescent who becomes pregnant due to sexual abuse.
• Understand medical and psychological risks of childhood and early adolescent pregnancy.
• Review trauma-informed management strategies for the pregnant child/adolescent who has been sexually abused.

Handout:

• PPT presented by Gillian Hopgood, DO, FAAP, and Kimberly Alba, PsyD, Accompanying Families in Healing From Child Sexual Abuse and Pregnancy (23 pages, 1.3MB PDF)

February 14, 2024

James Metz, MD MPH
Associate Professor
Pediatrics, Child Abuse Medicine
The University of Vermont Children’s Hospital

Learning Objectives:

• Explain that not all skull fractures in children are the same
• Discuss nuances in skull fractures in children
• Develop a more sophisticated approach to responding to skull fractures in children

Handout:

• PPT presented by James Metz, MD, When it’s just a bump on the head: interpreting skull fractures (12 pages, 2.5 MB.)

January 10, 2024

Blair Hammond, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Co-founding Director, Medical Education Director 

Mount Sinai Parenting Center

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the impact of safe, stable, nurturing relationships on children’s development, health and their ability to buffer adversity
• Discuss, model, and praise specific parenting behaviors that promote the “keystone” principles of attachment, autonomy, and self-regulation
• Identify resources to help incorporate concepts into practice

Handout:

• PPT presented by Blair Hammond, MD,
 Striving to Promote Early Relational Health and Child Development in the Healthcare Space (18 pages, 1.7MB PDF).

December 6, 2023

Stephen C. Boos, M.D., FAAP
Executive Editor, The Quarterly Update
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Massachusetts Chan School of Medicine, Baystate

Learning Objectives:

• Identify issues of inequity in systems responding to child maltreatment and state efforts to address them
• Compare and differentiate examples of statistical evidence base for child abuse diagnosis and improper “mathy” analysis

Handout:

• PPT presented by Stephen C. Boos, MD, FAAP, Keeping Up! New Literature in Child Abuse Medicine (17 pages, 1.8 MB PDF)

November 8, 2023

Janet Rosenzweig, MS, PhD, MPA
National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
(preventtogether.org)

Trevor Raushi, MS
Assistant Vice President, Child Abuse Prevention Program
The New York Foundling

Learning Objectives:

• Articulate how age appropriate understanding of sexual anatomy and physiology can enhance sexual health and safety on-line
• Discuss the actual risks currently faced by children and youth on-line
• Summarize an increased number of resources on promoting sexual health and safety in general and on-line they have available to share with families

Handout:

• PPT presented by Janet Rosenzweig PhD, MPA, and Trevor Raushi, MS, What Pediatric Practitioners Need to Know to Support Parents and Patients to Prevent On-Line Sexual Victimization (14 pages, 1.1MB PDF)

October 11, 2023

Anthony Zenkus, LCSW
Senior Lecturer
Columbia University School of Social Work

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the scope of traumatic events and their correlation with poor health outcomes (physical, psychological, behavioral)
• Summarize the physiological responses and processes associated with trauma
• Review how to integrate this information into practice as well as how to better coordinate service plans, which will improve health outcomes

March 8, 2023

Dana Kaplan, MD, FAAP
Director of Child Abuse and Neglect
Department of Pediatrics, SIUH

Lori Legano, MD, FAAP
Director, Child Protection Services
Department of Pediatrics, NYU/Bellevue

Nina Agrawal, MD, FAAP
Child Abuse Pediatrician
Children's Aid Society

Learning Objectives:

• Utilize the “3-R” Framework for Human Trafficking in Minors: Recognition, Relationship building, and Response
• Apply a child rights, trauma informed approach to the medical evaluation of child sex trafficking

Handout:

• PPT presented by Dana Kaplan, MD, FAAP, Lori Legano, MD, FAAP, and Nina Agrawal, MD, FAAP, Child Sex Trafficking Training for Pediatricians (10 pages, 340 KB PDF)

February 15, 2023

Jennifer B. Hansen, MD
Child Abuse Pediatrician
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Children's Mercy Kansas City

Learning Objectives:

• Describe a system-wide hospital patient safety monitoring program for child maltreatment
• List potential implications/impacts of a child maltreatment monitoring program

Handout:

• PPT presented by Jennifer B. Hansen, MD, Interventions from a Hospital System-Wide Patient Safety Monitoring Program for Child Maltreatment (16 pages, 433 KB PDF)

January 11, 2023

Heather Ross, MD, PGY6
Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellow
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Learning Objectives:

• Contrast distinguishing characteristics of negligent, intentional, and unintentional burn injuries in children
• Recognize co-existing injuries that commonly present in children with negligent, intentional and unintentional burns
• Summarize interventions to prevent pediatric burn injuries

Handout:

• PPT presented by Heather Ross, MD, Features of Pediatric Burns and Co-existing Injuries Caused by Neglect, Intentional, and Unintentional Trauma (15 pages, 1.9MB PDF)

December 7, 2022

Vincent J. Palusci, MD, MS, FAAP
Professor of Pediatrics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY

Mary L. Pulido, MSW, PhD
Executive Director, The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children President, APSAC-New York, Inc., New York, NY

Learning Objectives:

• Review New York State mandated reporter regulations and recommendations from about making reports
• Explore additional best practices for informing families about mandated reports
• Summarize steps that can be taken to engage parents after the report is made to continue services for the child and family

Handouts:

• PPT presented by Vincent J. Palusci, M.D., M.S., F.A.A.P. and Mary L. Pulido, M.S.W., Ph.D., Mandated Child Abuse Reporting: Best Practices and Pros and Cons about What to Say and How to Engage Families after the Report (14 pages, 487 KB PDF)
• NYS OCFS Mandated Reporter Decision Tree/Assessing for Bias in Decision-Making (PDF)
• OCFS Summary Guide for Mandated Reporters in NYS (PDF)
• ACS Parent’s Guide (PDF)

November 16, 2022

Martin A. Finkel, DO
Professor of Pediatrics
Medical Director and Co-Founder, Child Abuse Research Education & Service (CARES) Institute
Rowan University—School of Osteopathic Medicine

Learning Objectives:

• Develop an understanding of the clinical presentation of child sexual abuse and how to respond when the concern presents itself in the outpatient setting.
• Introduce the primary prevention of child sexual abuse as a part of providing anticipatory guidance regarding a child’s right to personal space and privacy

Handout:

• PPT presented by Martin A. Finkel, DO, "I can tell you because you're a doctor": Understanding and responding to the "Disorder" of sexual victimization (25 pages, 1.9 MB PDF)

October 12, 2022

Janet F. Rosenzweig, PhD, MPA
Senior Policy Analyst, The Institute for Human Services
Lecturer, The Fels Institute of Government at The University of Pennsylvania

Learning Objectives:

• Identify topics in sexual anatomy and physiology that are crucial for children to understand to promote sexual health and safety
• Apply this content to anticipatory guidance with parents/ primary caretakers of children of various ages

Handouts:

• PPT presented by Janet F. Rosenzweig, PhD, MPA, Supporting Medical Professionals to Talk to Parents About Healthy Sexual Development (21 pages, 1.7MB PDF)
• 5 Norms Checklists (PDF)
• Healthy Child Development (PDF)
• Lots of Ways to Help (PDF)

April 6, 2022

Lori Legano, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Child Protection Services
Bellevue Hospital
New York University Grossman School of Medicine

Learning Objectives:

• Review the differences in rates of maltreatment in children with and without disabilities
• Summarize how the type of disability affects risks of child maltreatment
• Discuss how to support families who have children with disabilities to prevent child maltreatment

Handout:

• PPT presented by Lori Legano, MD, Child Maltreatment in Children with Disabilities (9 pages, 215 KB PDF)

March 9, 2022

Ingrid Walker-Descartes, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAP
Assistant Professor, SUNY Downstate School of Medicine
Vice Chair of Education, Department of Pediatrics
Program Director, Pediatrics Residency Training Program
Fellowship Director, Child Abuse Fellowship Training Program
Clinical Director of Child Maltreatment Services
Maimonides Children's Hospital of Brooklyn

Learning Objectives:

• Review the definitions of racial disproportionality vs. racial disparities in the child welfare system
• Review the foundations of institutional and structural racism overlaid with implicit bias on the experience of black/brown families in the child welfare system
• Through case review, reflect on bias in the field of child protection and envision ways to use our roles as Child Abuse Pediatricians (CAPs) to mitigate its effect on black/brown families

Handout:

• PPT presented by Ingrid Walker-Descartes, MD, Mitigating the Impact of Institutionalized Racism on the Experience of Child Welfare-involved Black/Brown Families: What's A CAP to Do? (22 pages, 1 MB PDF)

February 9, 2022

Brooks Keeshin, MD
Child Abuse Pediatrician and Child Psychiatrist
Clinician Researcher
University of Utah
Division of Child Protection and Family Health
Primary Children's Hospital

Learning Objectives:

• Identify common symptoms of traumatic stress and potential areas for syndromic overlap between traumatic stress and common childhood mental health conditions such as ADHD, depression and anxiety
• Become familiar with pediatric assessment and treatment approaches for traumatic stress, both as an independent condition as well as in the context of other mental health concerns

Handout:

• PPT presented by Brooks Keeshin, MD, Trauma or Not Trauma? Teasing out traumatic stress from ADHD, Depression and Anxiety (18 pages, 2.4 MB PDF)

January 12, 2022

Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD

featuring author, Robert M. Reece, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Child Abuse Pediatrics
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the keys to responsible testimony
• Identify common issues of denial that may be challenging in Abusive Head Trauma
• List three issues involved in preparing to testify in a case of Abusive Head Trauma

Handout:

• To Tell the Truth: Based on Forty Years of Clinical and Trial Experiences in Abusive Head Trauma, presented by Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD, featuring author Robert M. Reece, MD (2 pages, 336 KB PDF)

December 8, 2021

Nicole DeRosa, PsyD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Learning Objectives:

• Review basic information regarding different types of behaviorally-based therapies for children who display challenging forms of behavior
• Identify key variables that can assist in the referral and behavioral treatment selection process
• Discuss how to best support children who engage in challenging forms of behavior, as well as their families

Handout:

• PPT presented by Nicole DeRosa, PsyD, LBA, BCBA-D, Navigating Treatment for Children Who Engage in Challenging Behavior (16 pages, 1.1 MB PDF)

October 13, 2021

Stephen Boos, MD
Child Abuse Pediatrics
Developmental—Behavioral Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Baystate Medical Center

Learning Objectives:

• Review current literature in Child Abuse Pediatrics
• Define the TEN-4-FACE-P clinical prediction rule and its application in pediatric practice
• Identify governmental policy actions that may decrease the occurrence of child abuse

Handout:

• PPT presented by Stephen C. Boos, MD, Keeping Up! New Literature in Child Abuse Medicine (21 pages, 3.9 MB PDF)

March 10, 2021

Moira Szilagyi, MD, PhD, FAAP
Professor of Pediatrics
Peter Shapiro Term Chair for Enhancing Children's Developmental and Behavioral Health in Pediatrics

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the prevalence and clinical importance of identifying trauma and its presentation in children
• Establish a partnering relationship to build safe, stable, nurturing caregiving in which we are the health experts and recognize the parent as the expert in their family and culture
• Adopt a few strategies to promote resilience of children with trauma histories in pediatric settings
• Awareness around judicious use of ACE screening

Handout:

• Summary of the PPT presented by Moira Szilagyi, MD, Childhood Trauma and Resilience: ACEs and Trauma-Informed Care Pediatric Settings (21 pages, 1.9 MB PDF)

February 10, 2021

Mandy O'Hara, MD, MPH, FAAP
Child Abuse Pediatrician
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center

Learning Objectives:

• Explore factors impacting decision-making on use of telemedicine for child abuse evaluations, based on the recent survey of CHAMP affiliates regarding the use of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Learn what other CHAMP affiliates are doing with telemedicine practice since the COVID-19 pandemic, including limitations and barriers identified.
• Review trauma-informed practice and its application to telemedicine in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Handout:

• PPT presented by Mandy O'Hara, MD, Variability in use of telemedicine for child abuse evaluations since the COVID 19 pandemic: Some lessons learned for trauma-sensitive practice (17 pages, 1.6 MB PDF)

January 13, 2021

Ann Botash, MD
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD
The Children's Hospital at Montefiore

Dana Kaplan, MD
Staten Island University Hospital

Lori Legano, MD
New York University School of Medicine

Alicia Pekarsky, MD
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Ingrid Walker-Descartes, MD
Maimonides Children's Hospital

Learning Objectives:

• Review categories of likelihood scales for child physical abuse
• Analyze case scenarios of physical abuse and assess levels of certainty
• Discuss ways to communicate uncertainty

Handout:

• A summary of the PPT presented by Ann S. Botash, MD, Alicia Pekarsky, MD, Lori Legano, MD, Ingrid Walker-Descartes, MD, Jamie L. Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD, and Dana Kaplan, MD,: Levels of certainty for physical abuse: What do our words mean? (23 pages, 2.5 MB PDF)

December 9, 2020

Lori Legano, MD
Director, Child Protection Services, Department of Pediatrics
New York University School of Medicine

Madeline Mineo, DO
Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellow
Maimonides Medical Center

Ann Lenane, MD
REACH Program
University of Rochester

Learning Objectives:

• Diagnose and treat sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in young children and adolescents.
• Interpret STIs in the context of possible child sexual abuse.

Handout:

• PPT presented by Lori Legano, M.D., Madeline Mineo, DO, and Ann Lenane, M.D., Sexually Transmitted Infections and Child Abuse: A Case Based Discussion (18 pages, 1 MB PDF)

November 18, 2020

Vincent J. Palusci, M.D., M.S., F.A.A.P.
Professor of Pediatrics
New York University
Grossman School of Medicine

Ann S. Botash, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Learning Objectives:

• Review national and NYS statistics regarding associations of race and ethnicity with child maltreatment reports
• Describe racism and bias in child abuse medicine including how it can affect pediatric patients, medical diagnosis, and mandated reports
• Discuss case examples and explore potential steps to reduce racism and bias in healthcare for child maltreatment

Handouts:

• PPT presented by Vincent J. Palusci, MD and Ann S. Botash, MD, Race and Bias in Child Abuse Diagnosis and Reporting (13 pages, 1.9 MB PDF)
• The Bibliography for the presentation, Race and Bias in Child Abuse Diagnosis and Reporting (2 pages, 80 KB PDF)

October 14, 2020

Stephanie A. Deutsch, MD, MS
Child Abuse Pediatrician
Department of Pediatrics
Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
Wilmington, DE

Learning Objectives:

• Review the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations, including children at risk for abuse and neglect
• Discuss how pandemic circumstances have impacted pediatric medical care-seeking, functioning of child welfare agencies, foster care and safety investigations
• Evaluate use of data for advocacy—how have lessons learned altered the future trajectory of supportive service provision for at-risk families
• Describe the anticipated effects of COVID-19 on child health and safety across generations
• What have we learned from the pandemic, and how does it change us and what we do, moving forward?

Handout:

• PPT presented by Stephanie Anne Deutsch, MD: The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Health & Safety (8 pages, 1.6 MG PDF)

March 11, 2020

Jason R. Corrado, Sr., JD
Partner
Shaub, Ahmuty, Citrin & Spratt, LLP
Lake Success, NY

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss an overview of legal considerations for professionals in the field of child abuse pediatrics
• Review relevant statutes which govern the obligations of mandated reporters, focusing upon those in clinical practice
• Describe protections (both by statute and in clinical practice) that should be considered when assessing children, making reports, and making recommendations to ACS/CPS and the court system

Handouts:

• PPT presentation by Jason R. Corrado, Sr., JD: Pitfalls, Perils and Protections in Child Abuse Pediatrics (10 pages, 2.1 MB PDF)
• Follow-up Q&A for the webcast (1 page, (70 KB PDF)

February 12, 2020

Ann Lenane, MD
Child Abuse Pediatrician
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of Rochester Medical Center
Medical Director, REACH Program

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize a range of symptoms that may be seen in cases of medical child abuse
• Summarize two challenges in making a medical child abuse diagnosis
• Review American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) practice guidelines for MBP

Handouts:

• Powerpoint presentation by Ann Lenane, MD, Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (16 pages, 329 KB PDF)
• Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy References and Related Publications (1 page, 54KB PDF)

January 15, 2020

Iram Ashraf, MD
Pediatrician and Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellow
Department of Pediatrics
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the importance and utility of follow-up skeletal surveys (FUSS)
• Discuss barriers to completion and possible consequences of non-completion
• Summarize the quality project initiated at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital to improve the rate of FUSS completion

Handout:

• PPT presented by Iram Ashraf, MD: Improving the Rate of Follow-up Skeletal Survey (FUSS) Completion (13 pages, 4.5 MB PDF)

December 18, 2019

Mandy O'Hara, MD
Child Abuse Pediatrician
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
New York Presbyterian Child Advocacy Center
Columbia University Medical Center

Learning Objectives:

• Identify one's risks and reactions to secondary traumatic stress, as well as one's unique identity and purpose in their work
• Define trauma stewardship and trauma mastery, and apply these terms to their own practices
• Learn ways for targeted self-care in the face of child welfare work
• Develop an understanding of compassion in all aspects of child welfare work, and how ultimately a compassion framework fosters job satisfaction and self-care

Handouts:

• Rooted in Compassion: Self-Care for the Child Abuse Professional (PPT presentation, 18 pages, 1.9 MB PDF ↗)
• The Self Compassion Worksheet (1 page, 77 KB PDF)

November 13, 2019

Lori A. Legano, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Director, Child Protection Services, Department of Pediatrics
NYU School of Medicine

Learning Objectives:

• Summarize the clinical care of children who are subjects of a child report who remain with their families or are returned to their families after foster care
• Recognize how to monitor for recurrent abuse
• Discuss ways that providers can support families and prevent recurrent abuse

Handout:

• Ongoing Pediatric Health Care for the Child who has been Maltreated (PPT presentation, 10 pages, 458 KB PDF)

October 16, 2019

Ann S. Botash, MD
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Pediatrics
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Learning Objectives:

• Review the literature on social media facilitated sexual assault
• Analyze cases for social media risks resulting in sexual assault
• Review social media screening recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics

Handout:

• Summary of the PPT presented by Ann S. Botash, MD: Social Media Facilitated Sexual Assault (15 pages, 15 MB PDF)

March 13, 2019

Stacie LeBlanc, MEd, JD
Director of the New Orleans Children's Advocacy Center (NOCAC) and the Audrey Hepburn CARE Center
Children's Hospital, New Orleans

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the harms of corporal punishment, the most prevalent risk factor for child physical abuse
• Explain the No Hit Zone policy and how to implement it in medical facilities and other youth-serving organizations
• Summarize communication strategies with families and co-workers in a non-judgmental manner regarding the harms of physical discipline and the purpose of the No Hit Zone

Handout:

• PPT presentation presented by Stacie LeBlanc, JD (68 pages, 9.5 MB PDF)

February 13, 2019

Vincent J. Palusci, MD, MS, FAAP
Professor of Pediatrics
NYU School of Medicine
Child Abuse Pediatrician at NYU Langone Health and Bellevue Hospital

Learning Objectives:

• Summarize the findings of a consensus statement on abusive head trauma (AHT) from the American Academy of Pediatrics and other organizations
• Explain key elements of the history, physical examination and imaging used to make a diagnosis of AHT
• Demonstrate how consensus statements can be used to help other professionals understand AHT

Handout:

• Consensus Statement on Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Young Children, May 2018 (18 pages, 621 KB PDF)

January 16, 2019

Karen L. Teelin, MD, MSED, FAAP
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Section of Adolescent Medicine
Director, A-GEMS Clinic
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Learning Objectives:

• Define transgender and relevant terminology
• Identify screening techniques
• Describe some health disparities and co-morbidities associated with transgender identity
• Discuss referral and medical management recommendations

Handouts:

• Summary of the PPT presented by Karen Teelin, MD, Supporting Gender Diverse Youth (29 pages 1.2 MB PDF)
• Resources List, Supporting Gender Diverse Youth (2 pages 52 KB PDF)

December 12, 2018

Mandy O'Hara, MD, MPH, FAAP
Child Abuse Pediatrician
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
New York Presbyterian Child Advocacy Center
Columbia University Medical Center

Learning Objectives:

• Identify key concepts in stress physiology, toxic stress, and adverse childhood experiences
• Define a framework for trauma-informed care
• Describe ways to screen for trauma and potentially traumatic events
• Describe clinical aspects of trauma-informed care
• Identify the importance of addressing secondary traumatic stress for
• providers

Handout:

• Summary of the PPT presented by Mandy O’Hara, MD, MPH, The Heart of Trauma-Informed Care (24 pages, 4 MB PDF)

November 14, 2018

Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD
Child Abuse Pediatrician
JE and ZB Butler Center for Children and Families
Children's Hospital at Montefiore

Learning Objectives:

• Articulate the epidemiology of child abuse by burning
• Distinguish between the two major types of inflicted burns
• Discuss the steps in evaluating and reporting suspicious burn injuries

Handout:

• Summary of the PowerPoint presented by Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD, Detecting Abuse in the Child with a Burn (18 pages 2.7 MB PDF)

October 10, 2018

Ann Botash, MD
Interim Chair, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Pediatrics
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss recognition of child abuse and needs for advocacy beyond reporting
• Analyze child abuse cases and discuss next steps in communication management, particularly when abuse is uncertain
• Review key points for written impact statements

Handout:

• Summary of the PowerPoint presented by Ann S. Botash, MD: The Art of Uncertainty & the Limits of the Child Abuse Diagnosis (14 pages, 861 KB PDF)

February 28, 2018

Howard Dubowitz, MD, MS
Professor of Pediatrics, Division Head, Child Protection Services
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Learning Objectives:

• Know more about alternative disciplinary strategies
• Learn how to share ideas about discipline with their patients' families
• Learn how to incorporate advice about discipline into a busy practice

Handout:

• Summary of the PowerPoint presented by Howard Dubowitz, MD, An Approach to Discipline (14 pages, 209 KB PDF)

February 14, 2018

Elizabeth Gershoff, PhD
Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences
University of Texas at Austin

Learning Objectives:

• Summarize the research findings linking spanking with harm to children
• Identify why alternatives to spanking are more effective and have less risk for adverse outcomes for children
• Describe strategies to change parents' attitudes about physical punishment that can be introduced in a medical setting

Handout:

• Summary of the PowerPoint presented by Elizabeth Gershoff, PhD, What We Know About the Harms Linked to Physical Punishment and About Interventions to Reduce it in Medical Settings(16 pages, 818KB PDF)

January 17, 2018

Alicia Pekarsky, MD, FAAP, ABP
Certified General and Child Abuse Pediatrician
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the definition of the term "sentinel injury"
• Define which sentinel injuries are most frequently associated with physical abuse
• Discuss the impact of failing to recognize and address seemingly minor injuries in young children

Handout:

• A Summary of the PPT presented by Alicia Pekarsky, MD, Sentinel Injuries: When You Have to Sweat the Small Stuff (21 pages, 587KB PDF)

December 13, 2017

Dana Kaplan, MD, FAAP
Director of Child Abuse and Neglect
Staten Island University Hospital

Learning Objectives:

• Evaluate the range of legislation related to human trafficking in the United States
• Explore the intersection of medical care and mandated reporting with regard to human trafficking
• Develop a patient centered and medically focused response to victims of human trafficking

Handouts:

• A Summary of the PPT presented by Dana Kaplan, MD, SQUARES: Medical-Legal Paradigms in Caring for Minor Victims of Human Trafficking (36 pages, 1.3 MB PDF)
• SQUARES: Medical-Legal Paradigms in Caring for Minor Victims of Human Trafficking References (3 pages, 107 KB PDF)

November 8, 2017

Ingrid Walker-Decartes, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Enstein College of Medicine
Clinical Director of Child Maltreatment Services
General Pediatrics Attending—Division of Ambulatory Pediatrics
Maimonides Infants and Children's Hospital of Brooklyn

Learning Objectives:

• Expand understanding of cases that fall under the purview of a Child Abuse Pediatrician
• Demonstrate how the unique needs of the population served inevitably impacts the skill set of CAPs in practice
• Explore a case where "culture" and "cultural sensitivity" poses a challenge and opportunity to re-evaluate "child" protection work

October 11, 2017

Ann S. Botash, MD
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Pediatrics
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze use of frameworks for teaching about child abuse
• Recognize expectations for various levels of learners
• Identify resources for teaching other professionals about child abuse

Handouts:

• PPT Presentation - RIME and Reason: Teaching About Child Abuse (16 pages, 385 KB PDF)
• Evaluation Guidelines for Suspected Child Physical Abuse (May 2017) (PDF)
• Evaluation Guidelines for Suspected Child Sexual Abuse (May 2017) (PDF)

March 22, 2017

Alicia Pekarsky, MD, FAAP
ABP Certified General Pediatrician & Child Abuse Pediatrician
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Handout:

• Slide summary of PPT by Alicia Pekarsky, MD, The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study: Effects of Child Maltreatment Now and Later (23 pages, 3.7MB PDF)

February 22, 2017

Ingrid Walker-Descartes, MD, MPH
Clinical Director of Maltreatment Services
Fellowship Director
Child Abuse Pediatrics
Maimonides Infants and Children's Hospital of Brooklyn

Handouts:

• Slide summary of PPT by Ingrid Walker-Descartes, MD, MPH, Sexual Behavior Rules for Children (1 page, 173 KB)
• List of References from presentation by Ingrid Walker-Descartes, MD, MPH (1 page, 164 KB)

January 18, 2017

Led by Ann S. Botash, MD

Linda Cahill, MD

Vince Palusci, MD

Alicia Pekarsky, MD

Handouts:

• Summary of the PPT presented: Strategies for the Medical Evaluation for Child Abuse in Children with Developmental Delays (16 pages, 1.9MB PDF)
• Palusci VJ, Datner E and Wilkins C. Developmental disabilities: Abuse and neglect in children and adults. Int J Child Health Hum Dev 2015; 8(4):407-428 (PDF)

December 14, 2016

Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD
Medical Director, Queens CAC

Handout:

• Summary of the PPT presented by Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD - Orthopedic Aspects of Child Maltreatment (19 pages, 2.2MB PDF)

November 2, 2016

Led by Ann S. Botash, MD

Linda Cahill, MD

Jennifer Canter, MD

Ann Lenane, MD

Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD

Yorgo Zahlanie, MD

Handout:

• Handout of the PPT - When It's Not Child Abuse (15 pages, 750 KB PDF)

October 5, 2016

Ann S. Botash, MD

Handout:

• Handout of the PPT - Updated Guidelines for Post-Assault Testing and Treatment (15 pages, 1.4 MB PDF)

April 16, 2016

Amy Caruso Brown, MD, MSc, MSCS

Lauren Germain, PhD

Handout:

• Handout of the PPT - Missed Opportunities: Addressing Campus Sexual Violence in the Primary Care Clinic (6 pages, 600KB PDF)

March 9, 2016

Dana Kaplan, MD, FAAP

Handouts:

• PPT - Turn Out: Medical Response to DMST (28 pages, 1.8 MG PDF)
• Turn Out: Medical Response to DMST References (2 pages, 100 KB PDF)

February 10, 2016

Ann S. Botash, MD

Handouts:

• PPT - Bully Busters: Child Abuse as a Risk Factor for Bullying (11 pages, 180KB PDF)
• Bully Busters References (5 pages, 2MG PDF)

January 13, 2016

Handout:

• Download the article that was discussed during the webcast, Updated Guidelines for Medical Evaluation of Child Sexual Abuse - https://www.jpagonline.org/article/S1083-3188(15)00030-3/fulltext

November 18, 2015

Ann S. Botash, MD

Handout:

• PPT Handout - "Haven't I Seen You Before?" The Dilemma of Repeated Examinations for Suspected Child Abuse (11 pages, 300KB PDF)

September 16, 2015

Ann S. Botash, MD

Handout:

• Handout of the PPT - Look it Up! Resources for Child Abuse Medical Providers (14 pages, 4MB PDF)

April 30, 2015

Ann S. Botash, MD

Ann Lenane, MD

Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD

Handout:

• PPT Handout - FAQs About Sexually Transmitted Infections in Child Abuse Cases (18 pages, 1MB PDF)

March 11, 2015

Alicia Pekarsky, MD, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
ABP Certified Child Abuse & General Pediatrician

Handout:

• Handout of the PPT - Radiographic Imaging in the Evaluation of Child Abuse: Refining Practice Patterns (14 pages, .5MB PDF)

February 15, 2015

Ann S. Botash, MD

Handouts:

• Common Pitfalls in the Recognition and Diagnosis of Child Abuse: Missing the Tip of the Iceberg (16 pages, .5MB PDF)
• List of reference articles for the Common Pitfalls webcast (PDF)
• Physical Abuse Evaluations: What to do before you call a child abuse expert when physical abuse is suspected in a child under 2 years old (PDF)

January 7, 2015

Ann S. Botash, MD

Handout:

• Handout of the PPT - Cry Me a River (Grayscale, 13 pages, 2.6 MB PDF)

November 19, 2014

Ann Botash MD
Medical Director, McMahon/Ryan CAC Syracuse

Linda Cahill MD
Medical Director, Butler CAC Bronx

Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld MD
Medical Director, Queens CAC

Lori Legano MD
Bellevue Hospital NYU

Ann Lenane MD
Medical Director
REACH Program Rochester

Alicia Pekarsky MD
Golisano Children’s Hospital Syracuse

Handout:

• Handout PPT -- Mimics of Child Abuse (8 pages, 102 KB PDF)

October 8, 2014

Ann Botash, MD

Linda Cahill, MD

Lori Legano, MD

Ann Lenane, MD

Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD

Alicia Pekarsky, MD

Handouts:

• Handout PPT - Corporal Punishment (Grayscale, 23 pages, 3.2 MB PDF)
• List of reference articles for the CHAMP Corporal Punishment webcast (PDF)

June 20, 2014

Amy J. L. Baker, Ph.D.
Director of Research
The New York Foundling
Vincent J. Fontana Center For Child Protection

Handout:

• Handout PPT - Everything You Need to Know about Psychological Maltreatment: Definition, Assessment, Incidence and Impact (10 pages, 153 KB PDF)

April 23, 2014

Ann S. Botash, MD

Handout:

• Handout PPT - Doctor It Hurts Down There (Grayscale, 22 pages, 2 MB PDF)

March 12, 2014

Vincent J. Palusci, M.D., M.S.
Child Abuse Pediatrician Bellevue Hospital Frances L. Loeb Child Protection and Development Center Professor of Pediatrics New York University School of Medicine

Handout:

• Handout PPT - Preventing Child Abuse (26 pages, 994 KB PDF)

February 12, 2014

Cindy W. Christian, MD
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia The Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania

Handout:

• Handout PPT - Metabolic and Genetic Mimickers of Child Abuse (18 pages, Grayscale, 5.9 MB PDF)

January 8, 2014

Ann S Botash, MD

Handout:

• Handout PPT - What to Say and How to Say It (Greyscale, 27 pages, 3.7MB PDF)

December 4, 2013

Linda Cahill, MD

Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD

Handout:

• Handout PPT - Understanding Femur Fractures – Accident Vs. Abuse (7 pages, 1.2 MB PDF)

November 6, 2013

Joyce A. Adams, MD
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics University of California, San Diego
Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego

Handout:

• Handout PPT - "Doctor, was there penetration?" Why we usually can't tell by looking. (9 pages, 12 MB PDF)

April 18, 2013

Alicia Pekarsky, MD, FAAP
American Board of Pediatrics Certification in General Pediatrics & Child Abuse Pediatrics
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Handout:

• Handout PPT - A Coordinated Community Response to Child Maltreatment (PDF)

February 14, 2013

Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD

Ann S. Botash, MD
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Handouts:

• Handout PPT - When Is a Subdural Hemorrhage Not a Subdural Hemorrhage! (PDF)
• Handout PPT - Tales from the Crib: History of a Fall and a Subdural Hemorrhage (PDF)

January 17, 2013

Linda Cahill, MD
Montefiore Medical Center

Ann S. Botash, MD

Ann Lenane, MD
Medical Director, REACH Program

Handouts:

• Handout PPT - Accident or Abuse? Femur Fracture (PDF)
• Handout PPT - Accident or Abuse? Bruises and Fractures (PDF)
• Handout PPT - Accident or Abuse? Bruises and Rib Fractures (PDF)

December 6, 2012

Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD

Handout:

• Handout - Not All That Blisters Is a Burn! (PDF)

November 8, 2012

Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD

Danita Curtis, NP

Nancy Mitchell, NP

Handouts:

• Handout PPT - Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Infections in Child Sexual Abuse (PDF)
• Handout - Chlamydia trachomatis (PDF)
• Handout - Gonorrhea infection in a prepubertal child (PDF)
• CDC Gonorrhea Treatment Guidelines (PDF)

October 11, 2012

Linda Cahill, MD

Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD

Lori Legano, MD

Handouts:

• Handout - Bruises in infants and toddlers (PDF)
• Handout - Cutaneous injuries – a potpourri of linear marks (PDF)
• Handout - Evaluating injuries and bruises when child abuse is suspected (PDF)

May 10, 2012

Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD

Handout:

• Handout - A Case of Twins with Fractures (PDF)

April 5, 2012

Ann S. Botash, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital

Handout:

• Handout PPT - How the Medical Provider Prepares for Testifying in a Case of Child Sexual Abuse (11 pages PDF)

February 8, 2012

Linda Cahill, MD

Ann Lenane, MD

Handouts:

• Handout - Head trauma in a 5-month-old baby (PDF)
• Handout - Head trauma (PDF)

February 2, 2012

Ann S. Botash, MD
Director, CARE
Professor of Pediatrics

Handouts:

• Triage Practice Recommendations (PDF)
• Guideline - What to do when sexual abuse is suspected in a pre-pubertal child (PDF)
• Handout PPT - What to do when sexual abuse is suspected in a pre-pubertal child (16 pages, 15 MB PDF)

December 1, 2011

Ann Lenane, MD
Medical Director, REACH Program Rochester, New York

Handout:

• Handout PPT - Self-mutilation and suicide risk associated with child and adolescent sexual abuse (PDF)

November 8, 2011

Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD

Ann S. Botash, MD

Handouts:

• Handout - Pancreatic injury case (PDF)
• Abdominal injury case (PDF)