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. In addition, 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.

Dr. Alexander has served on state child death review committees in Iowa, Georgia, and Florida, and two regional child death review committees. All subjects related to child abuse are of interest to him, but his particular areas of interest are shaken baby syndrome, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, prevention, and child death review. He is an active researcher, lectures widely, and testifies frequently in major child abuse cases throughout the country.

Janice Asher received her MD from Rush medical College in 1977. She is an assistant clinical professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is also the medical director of Women's Health in the Student Health Service at the university. From 1966 to 2001, Dr. Asher was the clinical director for Philadelphia Physicians for Social Responsibility. Currently, she is the clinical director for the Institute of Safe Families, a Philadelphia-based organization specializing in professional training, policy development, and multidisciplinary coordination of relationship violence victim services.

Dr. Asher has lectured widely on the subject of relationship violence and trained medical students and physicians across the United States in violence assessment and intervention in the medical setting.

Mary Case is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia and the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in pathology at the Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center and is board certified in anatomical pathology, neuropathology, and forensic pathology.

In addition to being a professor of pathology and codirector of the Division of Forensic Pathology at St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, Dr. Case serves as chief medical examiner for the cities of St. Louis and St. Charles, and Jefferson and Franklin Counties. Her primary practice is forensic pathology, and her areas of special interest are children's injuries and head trauma.

Sharon Cooper is an adjunct professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Additionally, she is the executive director of Developmental Forensic Pediatrics, P. A., a consulting firm that provides clinical care for children with disabilities and victims of child maltreatment, and a forensic pediatrician at the Southern Regional Area Health Education Center, which provides forensic pediatric services for nine counties in North Carolina.

Dr. Cooper is a registered and certified physician within the Child Medical Evaluation Program under the auspices of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This program provides a standardized means of evaluating child maltreatment victims, methods of documentation, peer review, and regular continued medical education via teleconference for the select physicians in the state who provide evaluations for child abuse and neglect. She has published chapters on the subject of child sexual abuse and persons with disabilities as well as sexual assault in the incarcerated population. Due to the scope of Dr. Cooper's practice, she is closely associated with the city, county, federal, and military court systems and functions as an expert witness in the areas of general, developmental, and forensic pediatrics. She also provides training for military and civilian physicians, law enforcement officers, social workers, psychologists, chaplains, attorneys, and judges who handle child maltreatment cases.

Dr. Cooper has presented in more than 100 national and international conferences in her specialized areas. She is an instructor at the Army Medical Education Department College and School, a Soldier & Family Support Branch of the Department of Preventive Health Services. This department provides multidisciplinary training for all professionals who identify, treat, and track child maltreatment cases in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Marine Corps. She has been an annual presenter for the Children's Hospital Hackensack Medical Center and is an educator of Internet crimes against children for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in Alexandria, Virginia.

Having serving 21 years of active duty at several installations in the United States and overseas, Dr. Cooper is now a retired US Army colonel. She currently sees developmental and forensic patients on a regular basis at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the largest army military installation in the world.

Dr. Cooper is a member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), the Board of Directors of the North Carolina APSAC chapter, the North Carolina chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Subcommittee on Child Abuse and Neglect, the North Carolina chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Children with Disabilities, and the Society of Developmental Pediatrics. She holds additional faculty positions at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland and is a Duke University affiliate.

Elizabeth Datner is the medical director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital and an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She joined the department in July 1995 after completing the George Washington University/Georgetown University Combined Emergency Medicine Residency Training Program. Dr. Datner received her MD from The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in 1991. Her research interests lie in the areas of interpersonal violence and women's health, specifically domestic violence, youth violence, and pregnancy-related emergencies.

Cynthia W. DeLago is an assistant professor of pediatrics specializing in child abuse at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of the New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine and co-chair of the Region 2 Ambulatory Pediatrics Association. Previously, She practiced adolescent and general pediatric medicine. She is the mother of 4 children aged 14 to 24 years.

James Claude Upshaw (“Jamie”) Downs, M.D., is coastal Georgia’s first Regional Medical Examiner. He has been continuously employed as a Medical Examiner since 1989 and was Alabama’s State Forensics Director and Chief Medical Examiner from 1998 to 2002. He has lectured extensively in the field of forensic pathology and has presented at numerous national and international meetings in the fields of anatomic and forensic pathology. He is a consultant to the FBI Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia, having authored four chapters in their manual on Managing Death Investigation, and was primary author of the FBI’s acclaimed Forensic Investigator’s Trauma Atlas. He has authored several books and chapters in the field of forensic pathology and child abuse, including Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Children: A Medical, Legal & Forensic Reference with CD-ROM and Child Fatality Review: A Clinical Guide and A Color Atlas. He has lectured hundreds of times, including at the National Forensic Academy and at the FBI’s National Academy. Areas of special interest include child abuse and police use of force. Professional activities have included service on numerous professional boards and committees. He has testified in numerous state and federal courts, as well as before committees of the United States Senate and House of Representatives. He is on the Board of Advisors for the Law Enforcement Innovation Center at the University of Tennessee, the Board of Directors of the National Association of Medical Examiners, the Board of Directors of the Consortium of Forensic Science Organizations (Vice Chair), and the Board of Directors of the National Forensic Science Technology Center. He serves on the Forensic Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. He was graduated from the University of Georgia in 1983, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He completed Peace Officers Standards and Training at the Southwest Alabama Police Academy, where he distinguished himself as class president and top academic student. He received his doctor of medicine degree and his residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology, and his fellowship in forensic pathology from the Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston). He is board certified in anatomic, clinical, and forensic pathology.

Richard Estes is a professor of social work at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He holds an AB degree from La Salle University in Philadelphia and graduate degrees in social work from the University of Pennsylvania (MSW) and the University of California at Berkeley (Doctor of Social Welfare). He also holds a post-masters certificate in Psychiatric Social Work from the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. Among his many assignments, Dr. Estes has held visiting professorships in Iran, Norway, China, Morocco, Korea, Hawaii, Japan, Mongolia, the Russian Federation, Belgium, Sweden, and Mexico. He is also the founding president of the Philadelphia area chapter of the Society for International Development.

At the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Estes serves as chair of the graduate concentration in Social and Economic Development (SED). He is a former president of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education (GADE), and in 2003 was elected president of the International Society For Quality of Life Studies for a two-year term. Currently, he is a member of the International Commission of the Council on Social Work Education. Dr. Estes has received numerous awards and grants for his research on international social work and comparative social development, including 2 Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Awards (Iran, 1978 and Norway, 1979) and a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar Award to Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea (1994).

Diana Faugno, a Minnesota native, graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1973 with a degree in nursing and obtained an MSN in 2006. Her professional experience includes nursing in the Medical/Surgical, Labor and Delivery, Pediatrics, and Neonatal Intensive Care departments. Ms. Faugno obtained her certification in pediatric nursing in 1990, began a career as a sexual assault nurse examiner in 1991, and became a certified sexual assault nurse examiner in 2002. She is the former director of Forensic Health Services, which includes a child abuse program, sexual assault team, and a family violence program in North San Diego County. Currently, Ms. Faugno is a board director for End Violence Against Women International. She has made several presentations to the scientific community and has led workshops on sexual assault presented at the American Academy of Science.

The Journal of the American Medical Association quoted Ms. Faugno in a 1996 article titled "Experts Hope Team Approach Will Improve the Quality of Rape Examiners," stating, "She considers forensic nursing the 'challenge' to promote the exchange of ideas and knowledge among all of us and with other multidisciplinary professionals" (R. Voelker). She is a fellow in the American Academy of Forensic Science, as well as a founding member of the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN). In 1996, she received the Outstanding Achievement award at the IAFN National Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, and in 1998, San Diego County presented her with the SART for her work.

Ms. Faugno is coauthor of Color Atlas of Sexual Assault (Mosby Publications 1997), the first book of its kind in the nation. She is also coauthor of Sexual Assault Across the Life Span, a 2003 G.W. Medical publication. Anyone wishing to contact Ms. Faugno may e-mail her at dialee@aol.com.

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.

Angelo Giardino is the medical director of Texas Children's Health Plan, a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, and an attending physician for the Texas Children's Hospital's forensic pediatrics service at the Children's Assessment Center in Houston, Texas. He graduated summa cum laude from Temple University and earned his MD and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Giardino completed his residency and fellowship training in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Immediately after his fellowship training, Dr. Giardino became the assistant, and then the associate, medical director at Health Partners of Philadelphia, where he had primary responsibility for utilization management, intensive case management, and health care data analysis. He also shared responsibility for the plan's quality improvement program. In that role, Dr. Giardino led "Little Partners," a lay home visiting program focused on fostering enhanced prenatal care and improved healthier birth outcomes. Additionally, Dr. Giardino began the Child Abuse and Neglect Team for Children with Special Health Care Needs, which was funded by a three-year grant from a local philanthropy. In 1998, he was appointed associate chair of clinical operations in the Department of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and in June of 1999 he was asked to chair the CHOP Quality Committee. As chair, Dr. Giardino supervised quality improvement, accreditation, and outcomes management for a wide variety of clinical programs within the hospital. He also served as an attending physician on CHOP's Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) team. These accomplishments are only a few of his career.

Dr. Giardino is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Texas Pediatric Society, and the Harris County Medical Society, where he serves on the Managed Medicaid Forum and the Medical Directors Committee. He is 10-year member of the American College of Physician Executives and a member of the American College of Medical Quality. Prior to relocating to Houston, Dr. Giardino served as chair of the Philadelphia Branch Board of the Southeastern Chapter of the American Red Cross, president of the Board for Bethany Christian Services in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, and a member of the Board for the Support Center for Child Advocates, where he was named a 2005 Champion for Children. His academic accomplishments include publishing eight textbooks on child abuse and neglect, presenting on a variety of pediatric topics at national and regional conferences, and, most recently, being appointed to a three-year term on the National Review Board for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Eileen Giardino is a nurse practitioner and an associate professor at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She is the track director of the Family Nurse Practitioner program, teaches both graduate and undergraduate students at the university, and works as a nurse practitioner in Student Health. Dr. Giardino has published in the area of child and adult sexual abuse and currently lectures on the evaluation of intimate partner violence and suspected child abuse to nursing and nurse practitioner students. Her clinical practice experience includes medical and cardiac intensive care as well as health promotion in community settings.

Dr. Giardino received her BSN and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, her MSN at Widener University, and Nurse Practitioner Certification in Adult and Family at La Salle University in Philadelphia, where she also received SANE training. She is a member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the International Association of Forensic Nurses, and the American Nurses Association.

Barbara Girardin earned her PhD in nursing from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Currently employed as a forensic nurse, trainer, and grant writer by the Healing Hearts Rape Crisis Center in Tamuning, Guam, she has 31 years of clinical practice experience in the acute and critical care of adolescents and adults, with eight years of clinical practice in forensic nursing, conducting acute sexual assault exams, developing policies and standards of practice, and receiving funding for federal grants.

Dr. Girardin served as a consultant for the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART), Guam and at Naval Hospital, Guam, where she teaches the sexual assault advocate program at the Family Service Center. She authors a newsletter column titled "Research Briefs in Forensic Nursing" for the International Association of Forensic Nurses. She has also conducted community education programs for more than 500 middle and high school students, parents, and military commands on the topic of sexual assault. Dr. Girardin has served and is available as an expert forensic witness in sexual assault cases.

Nancy Kellogg completed her MD, pediatrics residency, and pediatrics internship at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, where she is now a tenured professor of pediatrics. She is the medical director of the Alamo Children's Advocacy Center and a consultant and trainer for the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services and the San Antonio Police Department. Dr. Kellogg is also part of the medical staff at Christus Santa Rosa Medical Center and University Hospital. Dr. Kellogg is a 2003 recipient of the Presidential Award for Clinical Excellence from the University of Texas Health Science Center, a 2000 nominee for the governor's office "Texas Woman of the Year" in Health Services, and, since 1999, a member of the honorary Ray Helfer Society. Approximately 200 physicians and nurses have received intensive child abuse training under her direction, and she has developed a formal weeklong curriculum through the current Children's Justice Act Grant to Texas. She is also a prolific writer (graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College with a BA in English) and developer of multimedia training materials. Dr. Kellogg has authored over 70 publications.

Rob Parrish began his legal career in the Utah Attorney General's Office in 1980. In 1983, after representing the Utah Department of Public Safety as its sole counsel and presenting criminal appeals before the Utah Supreme Court, he became a prosecutor and managed trials of all kinds before specializing in child abuse prosecution in the late 1980s. Parrish has worked on both child protection cases and criminal cases involving proof of child abuse issues. He has successfully prosecuted child homicide cases that other people considered to be impossible. Because of his efforts, he has been nationally and internationally recognized as an expert on proving the medical aspects of all forms of child abuse in a court of law. One of his primary strengths is explaining complex medical concepts to an audience of laypersons.

While deputy director of the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome from July 2000 to 2002, 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. He coauthored a CD-ROM that visually presents the medical issues in shaken baby syndrome using diagrams, computer animations, and text. 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. He continued to prosecute difficult cases of shaken baby syndrome in collaboration with local prosecutors in Utah through 2001.

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. He is coeditor of Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Children: A Medical, Legal, and Forensic Reference, which was published by G.W. Medical Publishing in July 2006.

Hans B. Kersten is an assistant professor at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children and Drexel University College of Medicine. He also serves as a children's environmental health faculty champion for the National Environmental Education and Teaching Foundation and on the mayor's Lead Poisoning Primary Prevention Task Force in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife and daughters.

Paul S. Matz joined the faculty of St. Christopher's Hospical for Children and Drexel University College of Medicine in 2001. He is an active clinician and also supervises residents in the hospital's Division of Ambulatory Pediatrics. Dr. Matz and his wife, Miriam, live with their daughter Rebecca in Sicklerville, New Jersey.

Robert S. McGregor is a professor and the associate chair of Education and Clinical Affairs for the Department of Pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine. He also serves as the pediatric residency director at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. Nationally, Dr. McGregor is president of the Association of Pediatric Program Directors and active in the Ambulatory Pediatric Association, the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Kay Rauth-Farley is a board certified pediatrician specializing in forensic pediatrics (child abuse and neglect evaluation). Dr. Farley received her education from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, where she earned BS and MS degrees in biology and, in 1979, her MD. Dr. Farley completed pediatric postgraduate training at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1982 and then practiced general pediatrics for 7 years. In 1989 she joined The Children's Health Center of St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, as a pediatric faculty member and seriously began her work in forensic pediatrics. Dr. Farley was the medical director of the Child Abuse Assessment Center at St. Joseph's Hospital (now known as the Arizona Children's Center) until 1998, when her family moved to the Midwest. In October 1998, she joined the staff of the Division of Emergency Medicine at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. As faculty, her duties included serving as a member of the CARE team, which evaluates children believed to be abused or neglected. In December 2001, Dr. Farley left Children's Mercy to spend her time editing the G.W. Medical publication Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Children: A Medical, Legal, and Forensic Reference, which was released in July 2006.

In March 2003, Dr. Farley accepted her current position as medical director of Sunflower House, a children's advocacy center. Throughout her career, she has received numerous awards including a proclamation from then Arizona Governor Jane D. Hull for her teaching and efforts to improve medical care for abused children. She has also been the recipient of awards from the US 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. Dr. Farley has assisted local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies; the US Customs Office; the Postal Inspector; and social services with the investigation of suspected child abuse. In addition to her dedication to providing state-of-the-art care to abused children, Dr. Farley has spent her time mentoring others who wish to work in the field and encouraging medical students and residents to consider a career in forensic pediatrics. Three of Dr. Farley's former students or residents are now dedicating their careers to the field of child abuse and neglect. Dr. Farley and her husband reside in Shawnee, Kansas.

Laura E. Smals is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine and works at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. She is a general pediatrician specializing in children with special health care needs.

Nancy D. Spector is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine, associate director of the Pediatric Residency Program at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, and works at the hospital's Ambulatory Care Clinic providing primary care and teaching medical students and residents. She is the mother of 3 children aged 10, 9, and 7 years, and she is actively involved in local school efforts to develop a bullying prevention program.

Mary Spencer is medical director of the Child Abuse Program and the Sexual Abuse Response Team at Palomar-Pomerado Health in North San Diego County. She received her BA from the University of Colorado and MD from the University of California-Los Angeles. After medical school, Dr. Spencer completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at UCLA and worked as an assistant professor at the school until 1982. Currently, she is a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of California-San Diego and has a private practice in pediatric and infectious disease medicine in Escondido.

Currently director of the American Prosecutors Research Institute's National Child Protection Training Center at Winona State University, Victor Vieth graduated magna cum laude from Winona State University and earned his Juris Doctor from Hamline University School of Law. During law school, Vieth served as editor-in-chief of the law review and received the American Jurisprudence award for achievement in the study of constitutional law. From 1988 to 1997, he worked as a prosecutor in rural Minnesota where he gained national recognition for his work to address child abuse in small communities. He is a recipient of Distinguished Alumni Awards from both Hamline University School of Law and Winona State University. He has been named to the President's Honor Roll of American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.

The Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association named him one of "21 Young Lawyers Leading us Into the 21st Century." Vieth is the author of numerous articles pertaining to issues of child abuse and domestic violence. His article "Drying Their Tears" received the Associated Church Press' 1994 Award of Excellence. In 1997, Vieth joined the staff of the National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse. From 1997 to 1999, he worked there as a senior attorney, providing technical assistance and training to prosecutors around the country. In 1999, he became director of the National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse. Among his accomplishments is the development of the project "Half a Nation by 2010." The goal of this program is to complete five-day forensic interview training programs in at least 25 states by the end of the decade. In 2003, the APRI appointed Vieth to direct the National Child Protection Training Center on the campus of Winona State University. One goal of the NCPTC is to develop model undergraduate and graduate programs at institutions of higher education throughout the country.