630 pages, 611 images, 38 contributors
Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Children combines the best clinical writing with high-quality photographic content found in color atlases -- a wealth of knowledge bound in one concise edition.
This reference addresses all aspects of abusive head trauma cases in one complete reference for clinicians, investigators, prosecutors, and social workers. More than 600 clinical photographs illustrate inflicted child head injuries with case studies and multidisciplinary analyses, including discussions of shaken baby syndrome, shaken impact syndrome, differential diagnoses, forensic analysis, autopsies, prosecutorial issues, long-term care of survivors, and the role of social services.
Alexander, Randell: - Randell Alexander is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida and the Morehouse School of Medicine. He currently serves as chief of the Division of Child Protection and Forensic Pediatrics and interim chief of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics at the University of Florida-Jacksonville. He is the statewide medical director of child protections teams for the Department of Health's Children's Medical Services and is part of the International Advisory Board for the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome. He has also served as vice chair of the US Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the boards of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and Prevent Child Abuse America. He is an active researcher, lectures widely, and testifies frequently in major child abuse cases throughout the country.
Frasier, Lori: - Lori Frasier is the medical director of Medical Assessment at the Center for Safe and Healthy Families at Primary Children's Medical Center and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah. Formerly, she was an assistant professor of Child Health and the director of the Child Protection Program and Division of General Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Frasier graduated from the University of Utah College of Medicine in 1995, completed her pediatric residency at the Children's Hospital and Medical Center/University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, and held a fellowship at the University of Washington's Sexual Assault Center. Dr. Frasier has authored several articles and chapters and lectured locally, regionally, and nationally on subjects related to child maltreatment.
Parrish, Robert: - Robert Parrish began his legal career in the Utah Attorney General's Office in 1980.Parrish consulted on hundreds of cases all over the world, authored a training curriculum for law enforcement and CPS investigators, and wrote articles and chapters for several prosecution and medical texts. Parrish has presented training in England, Australia, and throughout the United States on a variety of topics relating to abusive head trauma in children and focusing on the legal system's role in responding to this severe form of child abuse. In 2002, Parrish returned to state government as a Guardian ad Litem, representing abused, neglected, and delinquent children in juvenile court and managing six other attorneys and staff.
Rauth-Farley, Kay: - Kay Rauth-Farley is a board certified pediatrician who specializes in forensic pathology. Dr. Farley is a graduate of Creighton University, the Creighton University School of Medicine, and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Farley was on the staff of the Division of Emergency Medicine at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2006, Dr. Farley was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Children's Alliance. Dr. Farley has received numerous awards, including a proclamation from then Arizona Governor Jane D. Hull, the U.S. Customs Office in Phoenix, the Phoenix Police Department, Child Protective Services of Arizona, the Mary Paul O'Grady Award for the Pursuit of Social Justice presented by the Sisters of Mercy of St. Joseph's Hospital, the Humanitarian Award presented by the residents and faculty of the Children's Health Center, and numerous teaching awards.
