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.

Dr Patrick Kelly MBChB, FRACP, MD, ONZM Auckland, New Zealand
	Dr Patrick Kelly MBChB, FRACP, MD, ONZM is a paediatrician and Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics: Child and Youth Health, Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has been involved in multi-disciplinary child protection, service development, teaching and research since 1991. Dr Kelly was Service Clinical Director of Te Puaruruhau (the multi-disciplinary child protection team at Starship Children’s Hospital) for 25 years and played a lead role in establishing Puawaitahi, Australasia’s first multi-agency centre for Child Protection. He set up Aotearoa New Zealand’s National Shaken Baby Prevention Programme (“Power to Protect”). Dr Kelly has for many years run annual training courses for paediatricians and others throughout Australasia on the management of suspected child abuse and has appeared as an expert witness in many criminal trials. Dr Kelly is co-author of the NZ Ministry of Health Family Violence Intervention Guidelines, was chair of the Child Protection Special Interest Group of the Paediatric Society of New Zealand for 12 years, the first Clinical Lead of the New Zealand Managed Clinical Network in Child Protection and a founding member of the New Zealand National Child Mortality Review Committee and the New Zealand Family Violence Death Review Committee.

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.

Prof. Ignasi Barber, MD, PhD Barcelona, Spain
	Head of the Peadiatric Radiology Department Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Childrens Hospital, Barcelona, Spain Barcelona University Member of the ESPR Child Abuse Task Force President of the Spanish Society of Paediatric Radiology Ignasi Barber is a Pediatric Radiologist, actual president of the Spanish Society of Paediatric Radiology (SERPE) and member of the Spanish Society of Radiology (SERAM) and the European Society of Paediatric Radiology (ESPR). Head of Paediatric Radiology at Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Children’s Hospital. Associated Professor of Radiology at Barcelona Universtiy. Dr. Barber received training in child abuse imaging including a 2 years research fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital under Dr Paul Kleinman mentorship. He serves as an imaging specialist in the child protection team program. Dr. Barber is engaged both in teaching medical students and radiologist professionals on a regional and national level. He is a member of the ESPR Child Abuse Imaging Task Force and the ESPR Educational Committee.

Dr. Dena Nazer Detroit, USA
	Dr. Nazer is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. She serves as the Medical Director at the Kids-TALK Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) in Detroit, where she conducts medical evaluations for children suspected of maltreatment. She completed her pediatric residency, served as Chief Resident, and completed a fellowship in Child Abuse Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Prior to her current role, Dr. Nazer served for 11 years as the Medical Director of the Child Protection Team at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Dr. Nazer is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in both General Pediatrics and Child Abuse Pediatrics. Dr. Nazer was recently appointed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer as Chair of the Michigan Human Trafficking Health Advisory Board and is currently serving her second term on the board. In addition to her clinical and academic work, Dr. Nazer regularly educates multidisciplinary team members-including law enforcement, prosecutors, and healthcare professionals-nationally and internationally. Her goal is to strengthen coordinated, team-based responses that ensure the best outcomes for children affected by maltreatment and human trafficking.

Brooks Keeshin, MD, DFAACAP, FAAP Utah, USA
	Dr. Keeshin is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah, the Associate Vice Chair of Research in Child Mental Health at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute and an Affiliated Researcher at Uppsala University. A child abuse pediatrician and child psychiatrist, he provides clinical care to children and adolescents with histories of child abuse and other traumatic experiences at Primary Children’s Center for Safe and Healthy Families. In addition, Dr. Keeshin serves at the Consultant Medical Director for Measurement Based Care in the Behavioral Health Clinical Programs at Intermountain Health. Dr. Keeshin receives funding for research and projects from SAMHSA, PCORI, NIMH and the State of Utah, all in the areas of trauma and suicide prevention. As an example, Dr. Keeshin directs Pediatric Integrated Post-trauma Services (PIPS), a SAMHSA funded center of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network focused on empowering frontline pediatric providers to detect and respond to youth at risk for traumatic stress and suicide. Dr. Keeshin is the co-chair of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Child Maltreatment and Violence Committee and is a member of the AAP Council on Healthy Mental and Emotional Development Executive Committee.

Dr Joanne K. Nelson Ireland
	Dr Joanne K. Nelson: is a Consultant Paediatrician, Forensic Physician and Clinical Director of the Child and Adolescent Sexual Assault Treatment Service in West / Mid-West Ireland. She graduated from Cambridge and Oxford Universities in the UK, with post graduate training in Northern Ireland and New Zealand. Barnahus West in Galway is the first of three Barnahus in Ireland where Dr Nelson leads forensic medical services for child victims of sexual abuse integrating with Barnahus Social Workers, Therapeutic teams and Specialist Forensic Interviewers. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Ireland, Member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and Member / Examiner for the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine UK. Dr Nelson acts as an expert medical witness for cases of child abuse and neglect. She holds numerous regional and national leadership and advocacy positions and participates actively in education, research, and teaching related to forensic medicine and child protection.