Insuring The Children Fellowship Program

Cincinnati Children's Medical Hospital Center

At Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the two-year Insuring the Children Child Abuse Fellowship Program through the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children, is designed to prepare physicians for an academic and clinical career in child abuse and forensic pediatrics.

Through a broad range of experiences, fellows develop proficiency in the areas of clinical care, research, teaching and administration. Clinical areas of study include physical child abuse, sexual child abuse, medical neglect and Pediatric Condition Falsified.

Fellows develop skills in research methodology, including study design, writing proficiency and statistical analysis. Opportunities to improve clinical and didactic teaching of residents, students and other health-care professionals are provided. Administrative skills, such as multidisciplinary team building, budget preparation and fund-raising are taught.

Faculty members have a broad range of clinical and research interests. Frank Putnam, MD, director of the Mayerson Center, and Barbara Boat, PhD, director of the Childhood Trust, are also available as mentors to fellows.

Faculty in other divisions are readily available through subspecialty electives and informal consultations and as research mentors.

The Insuring the Children Child Abuse Fellowship program at Children's Hospital is one of only nine child abuse training programs nationwide. These nine programs educate all of the U.S. trained child abuse physicians.

The Fellowship was founded by Dr. Robert Shapiro, a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati. He is a nationally recognized expert in the diagnosis of physical and sexual child abuse and has served as Medical Director of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Child Abuse Team since 1986. Dr. Shapiro was the medical director of the Cincinnati Children's Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children and is the Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Ohio Committee on Child Abuse Pediatrics.

The new fellowship director is Dr. Kathi Makoroff. She assumed responsibility in 2007.

Two fellowships are funded in part by a generous gift of $60,000 annually from Insuring the Children. Insuring the Children is the united effort of the Southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky insurance industry to raise awareness of child abuse and neglect.

Print or read the flyer for emergency child abuse services, contact information or learn about what happens at the Mayerson Child Advocacy Center.

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The Insuring the Children Fellows

Dr. Neha Mehta, our first Insuring the Children Fellow, completed her child abuse training in June 2001. Neha is a graduate of the Medical College of Georgia and came to Cincinnati after completing 3 years of pediatrics training at the University of Kentucky followed by a fourth year as chief resident. Her interests include physician and nurse education, Shaken Baby Syndrome and multi-disciplinary evaluations. Neha is currently on the attending staff at the Mayerson Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

Dr. Randall Schlievert was our second Insuring the Children Fellow. He completed his child abuse training in June 2002. Randy is a graduate of the Medical College of Ohio and received his pediatric training at Mercy Children's Hospital in Toledo. Randy has returned to Toledo and is now serving as the Medical Director of the child abuse program at the Medical College of Ohio. His interests include tests for sexually transmitted infections and the use of digital technologies to improve the diagnosis of child abuse. He is currently working to strengthen the services provided to abused and neglected children in Toledo.

Dr. Marcus DeGraw is our current Insuring the Children Fellow. Marcus received his M.D. degree from Wayne State University of Medicine in Detroit, where he was the Kalamazoo Foundation Remynse Graduate Scholar. He completed his pediatric residency at the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan.

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