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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.

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 diagnosing 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 track, treat, and identify 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.