Linda Shaw

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 Masters 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. Her career in child maltreatment began in 1987 in the Center for Child Abuse Prevention at the Children’s Health Center of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Shaw spent 20 years in New Jersey as a clinician/educator where she directed one of the four regional diagnostic and treatment centers on child abuse and neglect. Her clinical work included outpatient and inpatient consultations around abused children as well as comprehensive evaluations of foster children. She taught legal, child protection, medical, and educational professionals, as well as foster parents about child maltreatment. She chaired one of New Jersey’s Regional Community Based Child Fatalities and Near Fatalities Review Teams, participated in Multidisciplinary Teams on Child Abuse and Neglect and was a trainer for the American Academy of Pediatrics-New Jersey chapter’s PCORE EPIC CAN, a program educating community physicians and their office staff on child abuse and neglect. Faced with a lack of educational materials available for physicians on preventing child sexual abuse, she developed a series of handouts to be used at health maintenance visits, in English and Spanish, entitled, “What Every Parent Should Know about Child Sexual Abuse.” Dr. Shaw is perhaps most proud to be the mother of three successful and happy children and 6 grandchildren.