Project Director/Website Author
Ann S. Botash, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Child Abuse Referral and Evaluation Program
Syracuse, NY 13210
Project Editor
Trish Booth, MA
Manlius, NY 13104
Child Abuse Evaluation & Treatment for Medical Providers is dedicated to the work of three colleagues who contributed to this project despite their shortened lifetimes by unwearied advocacy for abused children, by having a vision for education of medical providers, and by stimulating the rest of us to do something about it.
Jane A. Barker, CSW
NYS Child Advocacy Resource and Consultation Center, Safe Horizon, Brooklyn, NY
Beverly Boucher
New York State Department of Health, Rape Crisis Program, Albany, NY
Leah Harrison, PNP
Child Protection Center, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY
CONTRIBUTORS TO CONTENT OF WEBSITE
Nancy Bidinger, FNP
REACh Program, Oswego County Opportunities, Fulton, NY
Steven D. Blatt, MD, FAAP
ENHANCE Services for Children in Foster Care, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
Linda Cahill, MD FAAP
Child Protection Center, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY
Jennifer F. Canter, MD, MPH, FAAP
The Children's Advocacy Center at the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY
Jack Coyne, MD, FAAP
Erie, Niagara, and Genesee Counties, Child Advocacy Centers, Niagara Falls, NY
Catherine Diana, MSW
Elmcrest Children's Center, Syracuse, NY
Anne Galloway, RN
CARE Program SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
Stephen D. Gomez, MD
United Health Services Hospitals, Johnson City, NY
Lara Gordon, MD, FAAP
New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Child Protection Team, New York, NY
Jamie Hoffman-Rosenfeld, MD, FAAP
Queens Child Advocacy Center, Forest Hills, NY
Philip W. Hyden, MD, JD, FAAP
New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Child Protection Team, New York, NY
Elizabeth Kinsey, CSW
CARE Program, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York
Susan Krzyzak, FNP
REACh Program, Oswego County Opportunities, Fulton, NY
Lori Legano, MD, FAAP
Child Protection and Development Center, Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY
Margaret McHugh, MD, MPH, FAAP
Child Protection and Development Center, Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY
Victoria Meguid, MD, FAAP
ENHANCE Services for Children in Foster Care, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
Nancy Mitchell, RN, PNP
CARE Program, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York
Sarah Dale Mitchell, BA
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York
Christine Schoonmaker, MS
NYS Child Advocacy Resource and Consultation Center, Safe Horizon, Syracuse, NY
Robert Shapiro, MD, FAAP
Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Bella Silecchia, MD, FAAP
Child Protection Program, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, New York
Ann Marie Tucker, Esq.
Niagara Child Advocacy Center, Niagara Falls, New York
REVIEWERS OF CONTENT
Nora Baladerian, Ph.D.
Child Abuse and Neglect Disabilities Outreach Project, ARC Riverside, California
Tom Hanna, BA
The Child Abuse Prevention Network, LifeNET, Inc.
Thomas Hess
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Albany, NY
Pamela M. Herendeen, MS, PNP
REACH Program, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Kay Hooper FNP-C
Lourdes Hospital, Binghamton, NY
Michael Jordan, MD, FAAP
Rochester General Hospital, Wayne Medical Group, Newark, NY
Ann Lenane, MD, FAAP
REACH Program, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Celeste Madden, MD, FAAP
St. Joseph's Maternal Child Health Center, Syracuse, NY
Jennifer Nead
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
Irene Sills, MD, FAAP
Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY
In addition, the SIGCA-MD-L@cornell.edu physicians group contributed to the section on Recommended Concluding Options.
Lisa Kozma and Courtney and Co. Design, Syracuse, New York, contributed to the production of the original manuscript.
The contributors were part of a team of professionals led by Dr. Ann Botash who revised the publication, The New York State Department of Health Child and Adolescent Sexual Offense Protocol, funded by the Centers for Disease Control, Rape Prevention Education Funding administered by the New York State Department of Health, Rape Crisis Program, Albany, NY. The protocol revision was supported by a grant to the State University of New York Research Foundation, Albany, NY, the sponsoring organization for the Child Abuse Referral and Evaluation Program, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Pediatric Department, Syracuse, NY. The revised New York State Department of Health Child and Adolescent Sexual Offense Protocol will be published on the NYS Department of Health website and is available for unrestricted public use. Funding for the complete development of the materials, including assimilation of material on physical abuse, neglect, and emotional abuse, and for website development is described on the Support and Endorsements page.
