The fourth edition of Recognition of Child Abuse for the Mandated Reporter has been updated to include the contemporary best practices in the evaluation of maltreatment. Mandated reporters are required by law and professional codes of conduct to report suspected abuse, and they need current and practical information to identify its signs and symptoms.
Angelo P. Giardino, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAP Angelo Giardino is the medical director of Texas Children's Health Plan, a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, and an attending physician for the Texas Children's Hospital's forensic pediatrics service at the Children's Assessment Center in Houston, Texas. Angelo Giardino completed his residency and fellowship training in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Immediately after his fellowship training, Angelo Giardino became the assistant, and then the associate, medical director at Health Partners of Philadelphia, where he had primary responsibility for utilization management, intensive case management, and health care data analysis. He also shared responsibility for the plan's quality improvement program. Additionally, he began the Child Abuse and Neglect Team for Children with Special Health Care Needs, which was funded by a three-year grant from a local philanthropy. In 1998, he was appointed associate chair of clinical operations in the Department of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and in June of 1999 he was asked to chair the CHOP Quality Committee. These accomplishments are only a few of his career.
Linda Shaw, MSSW, MD, FAAP, CAP
Linda Shaw is a Child Abuse Pediatrician, currently in the Division of Child Protection as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, based at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center. After completing a Master s of Science of Social Work at Columbia University School of Social Work, she worked as a medical social worker at the University of Maryland Hospital, in Baltimore. She subsequently attended medical school at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine, and completed a pediatric residency at the University of Washington in the Seattle Children's Medical Center.
Patricia M. Speck, DNSc, APRN, FNP-BC, DF-IAFN, FAAFS, FAAN
Patricia Speck is an internationally recognized family nurse practitioner who specializes in public health and forensic nursing. She graduated from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Nursing and later completed her doctoral dissertation on sexual assault program evaluation. As a board certified family nurse practitioner, Patricia s clinical practice focuses on the health aftermath of violence and her research centers on forensic nursing practice topics. She is a consultant, author, and lecturer on forensic nursing and has earned more than 20 local, national, and international awards and professional honors for her work. Patricia chairs the American Public Health Association s Family Violence Forum and is a former president of the International Association of Forensic Nurses.
Eileen R. Giardino, PhD, RN, CRNP
Eileen Giardino is a nurse practitioner and an associate professor at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She is the track director of the Family Nurse Practitioner program, teaches both graduate and undergraduate students at the university, and works as a nurse practitioner in Student Health. She has published in the area of child and adult sexual abuse and currently lectures on the evaluation of intimate partner violence and suspected child abuse to nursing and nurse practitioner students. Eileen Giardino received her BSN and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, her MSN at Widener University, and Nurse Practitioner Certification in Adult and Family at La Salle University in Philadelphia, where she also received SANE training.
