Faculty

Gabriel Otterman, Co-course director at InterCAP, MD, MPH, PhD, Senior Consultant Paediatrician Uppsala, Sweden
	Gabriel Otterman, co-course director at InterCAP, is a Senior Consultant Paediatrician and Medical Director of the Child Protection Team at Uppsala University Children’s Hospital in Uppsala, Sweden. He also serves as Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Barnafrid National Centre on Violence Against Children at the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences at Linköping University. Dr. Otterman is founding co-chair of the Section on Child Maltreatment of the Swedish Paediatric Society. His research and clinical interests currently focus on an innovative trauma-informed medical home model for children and adolescents in out-of-home care. Dr. Otterman currently serves as Vice Chair of the EU COST Action project, Multi-sectoral responses to child abuse and neglect in Europe (Euro-CAN). The project aims to better understand the incidence and trends of child abuse and neglect and improve data collection by building a collaborative research and advocacy network with representatives from 35 countries across the European Region. He is a member of the Board of Directors at the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN).

Kathi Makoroff, Co-course director at InterCAP, MD, MEd Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
	Dr. Kathi Makoroff is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and has been a full time child abuse faculty member at the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Cincinnati Children's Hospital since 1997; she is currently the Medical Director and Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellowship Director at the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children. Dr. Makoroff earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with honors from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. After completing a residency in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Dr. Makoroff received training in child abuse including a research fellowship in Child Abuse Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Dr. Makoroff received her Masters in Education from the University of Cincinnati in 2010. She has held numerous local, regional and national leadership positions in the areas of education and child abuse pediatrics.

Cindy W. Christian, M.D. Philadelphia, PA, USA
	Dr. Christian holds the Anthony A. Latini Chair in Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is the Assistant Dean for Community Engagement and a Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Christian has held multiple national leadership positions in the field of child abuse pediatrics and has spent her career providing medical care, legislative and governmental advocacy, and interprofessional education to help protect abused and neglected children.

Norrell Atkinson, M.D. Philadelphia, PA, USA
	Dr. Norrell Atkinson is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine, and Director of the Child Protection Program at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Atkinson earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and her medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine. After completing her residency in pediatrics at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., she then went on to complete her pediatric subspecialty training in Child Abuse Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughter’s in Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Atkinson is board certified in both Pediatrics and Child Abuse Pediatrics. She additionally serves as the Educational Programming Chair for the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) Council on Child Abuse and Neglect (COCAN) and oversees the planning of COCAN’s educational programs for the AAP’s annual National Conference & Exhibition (NCE). In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Atkinson also enjoys teaching and educating both physicians, trainees, and child welfare workers on the recognition and evaluation of child abuse.

Dr med. Oliver Berthold Berlin, Germany
	Oliver Berthold is a General Pediatrician and certified as a child abuse physician by the German Medical Society on Child Abuse and Neglect (DGKiM). He graduated from Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany in 2007 after study visits in Jerusalem, Israel and Brno, Czech Republic. He serves as medical director of the Child Abuse Clinic at DRK Kliniken Berlin \| Westend, Berlin, Germany. In 2017, DRK Kliniken Berlin joined a cooperation with Ulm University Medical Center and Freiburg University Medical Center to establish a nationwide child abuse helpline for medical professionals. Mr Berthold serves as a team leader from the outset of the program. Mr Berthold is engaged both in teaching medical students and medical professionals on a regional and national level. His particular scientific interest is the development of a program for the prevention of abusive head trauma, which is the topic of his thesis at Ulm University.

Martin Chalumeu Paris, France
	Martin Chalumeau is a Professor of Paediatrics at Université Paris Cité and an Epidemiologist at Inserm CRESS team.

Flora Blangis Paris, France
	Flora Blangis is a midwife and a postdoctoral researcher in epidemiology at the Obstetric, Perinatal, and Pediatric Life course Epidemiology team at Inserm in France and at the Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London in the UK. Her area of research is violence against minors, with a focus on child physical abuse, including its prevention, detection and diagnosis, and its lifelong consequences.