The Child Abuse Doctors - Hardcover

David L. Chadwick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1878060694 ISBN 13: 9781878060693

Publisher: STM Learning, Inc., 2011

In The Child Abuse Doctors, Dr. David Chadwick details the progress made in the field of child abuse pediatrics and highlights the doctors who paved the way for the current level of abuse recognition, reporting, and treatment.

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About the Author:

David L. Chadwick, MD is the Director Emeritus of the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego. He has engaged in clinical work with abused children since 1960. In 1961, along with C. Henry Kempe, Leon Eisenberg, and others, he attended a meeting at the Children's Bureau in Washington drafting the first model child abuse reporting law. Over 25 years ago, Dr. Chadwick created the Center for Child Protection at Children's Hospital in San Diego - one of the first in the country. Now named the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego, he has also helped to found the San Diego Community Child Abuse Coordinating Council. He was instrumental in developing a Committee on Child Abuse in the American Academy of Pediatrics. Prior to his position as Director of the Chadwick Center for Children and Families, he was Medical Director of Children's Hospital for 17 years. Dr. Chadwick is the author and co-author of many peer-reviewed articles dealing with a wide range of pediatric subjects and child abuse. Dr. Chadwick lectures widely and appears occasionally in court as an expert witness for child abuse cases. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University where he is engaged in research on the epidemiology of physical abuse.

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