Child Protection Program
The University of Wisconsin Child Protection Program serves as a regional referral center for infants, children, and adolescents for whom physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect (including chronic medical neglect), or factitious illness by proxy have been suspected, disclosed, or diagnosed. The UW Child Protection Program plans and implements continuing professional development programs to address the educational needs of practicing physicians, nurses, social workers, and other helping professionals in an effort to provide a system wide approach to the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Awarded Programs
Abusive Head Trauma: Evidence Based Diagnosis and Prosecution
Thursday and Friday
April 23 – 24, 2009
American Family Insurance National Headquarters
Madison, Wisconsin
This conference is being organized in response to legal arguments and court opinions suggesting that there is a genuine controversy in the scientific literature regarding the existence of Shaken Baby Syndrome. This conference explores the current state of scientific evidence relating to abusive head trauma.
Nationally and internationally known experts in the field of abusive head trauma will examine evidence-based research and discuss its applications to actual cases with prosecutors, detectives, medical professionals, coroners and social workers.
Faculty
- Mary E. Case, MD, Professor of Pathology, St. Louis University School Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
- Brian Holmgren, JD, Assistant District Attorney General, Davidson County District Attorney General’s Office, Nashville, Tennessee
- Robert Reece, MD, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine, Director, Child Protection Program, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Mary Ellen Karst, Dane County, Wisconsin Assistant District Attorney
- Shelly Rusch, Dane County, Wisconsin Assistant District Attorney
Housing
A block of rooms has been reserved for April 23 & 24, 2009 at the following facilities. Please call the facility of your choice directly. Be sure to confirm its cancellation policy when you make your reservation in order to avoid a cancellation charge should your plans change.
Hilton Madison Monona Terrace, 9 East Wilson St., Madison, (telephone: 608-255-5100 or www.hiltonmadison.com) The special room rate is $70.00. Please mention Conference on Abusive Head Trauma when making your reservation. Reservations made after March 23, 2009 will not be guaranteed at the special rate.
Holiday Inn Madison at the American Center, 5109 West Terrace Dr. Madison, (telephone: 608-249-4220) The special room rate is $70.00. Please mention Department of Pediatrics when making your reservation. Reservations made after March 23, 2009 will not be guaranteed at the special rate.
For Further Information
For conference information, please contact:
cme [at] pediatrics [dot] wisc [dot] edu (Barbara Anderson), CME Specialist, (608) 263-8542, H4/447 Clinical Sciences Center, 600 Highland, Madison, WI 53792
Child Abuse: What Do We Need to Know?
The goal of this conference is to meet the educational needs of physicians and ancillary health care professionals as well as social service and law enforcement professionals.
This conference is a collaborative effort among the three Madison hospitals, Meriter hospital, St. Mary’s Medical Center and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics.
For more information contact:
- cme [at] pediatrics [dot] wisc [dot] edu (Barbara Anderson), CME Specialist, (608) 263-8542 or
- hchristensen [at] meriter [dot] com (Howard Christensen), Meriter Hospital CME Office, (608) 267-6386