Peter Sidebotham, Co-Editor of Child Abuse Review and Trustee of the AoCPP, talks to Dr Vincent Palusci and Dr Gabriel Otterman about their work in editing our special issue of Child Abuse Review focusing on the recognition, response and prevention of abusive head trauma, and our upcoming conference on this same issue.
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In today's episode, Peter Sidebotham, Co-Editor of Child Abuse Review and Trustee at the Association of Child Protection Professionals, talks to Dr Vincent Palusci and Dr Gabriel Otterman about their work in guest editing our special issue of Child Abuse Review focusing on the recognition, response and prevention of abusive head trauma, and our upcoming conference on this same issue.
Vincent J. Palusci, M.D., M.S. is Professor of Pediatrics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine in New York City where he chairs the Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital Child Protection Committee. He is a board certified general and child abuse pediatrician at Bellevue Hospital and Langone Health.
Dr Palusci received his medical degree from the Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School and completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at New York University / Bellevue Hospital Center. He entered private practice and later joined the faculty of the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University where he was a TRECOS scholar and earned a master's degree in epidemiology.
As Professor of Pediatrics at Wayne State University, Dr Palusci opened the child protection center and was the first program director for their child abuse pediatrics fellowship. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and serves as associate editor of Child Abuse Review. His research has focused on epidemiologic and health services issues for child abuse victims and prevention.
Dr Palusci has edited or co-edited seven books, including “The Shaken Baby Syndrome: A Multidisciplinary Approach” and received the Ray E. Helfer Award for child abuse prevention from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Alliance for Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds.
Gabriel Otterman, MD, MPH, PhD, serves as full-time Senior Consultant Paediatrician, Medical Director of the Child Protection Team and faculty member at Uppsala University Children’s Hospital.
Dr Otterman is founding co-chair, and served as co-chair of the Section on Child Maltreatment of the Swedish Paediatric Society. His research interests currently focus on an innovative medical home model for children and adolescents in out-of-home care.
In collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Ray E. Helfer Society, Dr Otterman serves as co-course director for the International Course on Child Abuse Paediatrics, InterCAP, in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021.
Dr Otterman has worked as a general paediatrician and child abuse specialist in Massachusetts, Cambodia, and China before moving to Sweden to join the faculty at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden in 2003.
Peter Sidebotham is an emeritus professor of child health at Warwick Medical School, and formerly a consultant paediatrician and designated doctor for safeguarding children and for child death review. He has over 20 years’ experience as a practitioner and academic specialising in child protection.
Dr Sidebotham has published extensively on serious and fatal child maltreatment and unexpected child deaths. He is a member of the National Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, Co-Editor of Child Abuse Review as well as a Trustee of the Lullaby Trust and the Association of Child Protection Professionals.
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