Abusive Head Trauma Quick Reference

Lori Frasier is the medical director of Medical Assessment at the Center for Safe and Healthy Families at Primary Children’s Medical Center and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah. Formerly, she was an assistant professor of Child Health and the director of the Child Protection Program and Division of General Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Lori Frasier graduated from the University of Utah College of Medicine in 1995, completed her pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital and Medical Center/University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, and held a fellowship at the University of Washington’s Sexual Assault Center. Lori Frasier has authored several articles and chapters and lectured locally, regionally, and nationally on subjects related to child maltreatment.

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Kay Rauth-Farley is a board certified pediatrician who specializes in forensic pathology (child abuse and neglect evaluation). Dr. Farley is a graduate of Creighton University, the Creighton University School of Medicine, and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. In 1989 Dr. Farley joined The Children’s Health Center of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona as a pediatric faculty member. She was the Medical Director of the Child Abuse Assessment Center at St. Joseph’s Hospital (now known as the Arizona Children’s Center). From 1998-2001 Dr. Farley was on the staff of the Division of Emergency Medicine at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. Her duties there consisted of serving as a member of the CARE team, which evaluated children suspected of being abused or neglected. Dr. Farley accepted her position as the Medical Director of Sunflower House, a children’s advocacy center, in 2003. In 2006, Dr. Farley was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Children’s Alliance, the oversight organization in DC that accredits Children’s Advocacy Centers. Dr. Farley has received numerous awards, including a proclamation from then Arizona Governor Jane D. Hull, the U.S. Customs Office in Phoenix, the Phoenix Police Department, Child Protective Services of Arizona, the Mary Paul O’Grady Award for the Pursuit of Social Justice presented by the Sisters of Mercy of St. Joseph’s Hospital, the Humanitarian Award presented by the residents and faculty of the Children’s Health Center, and numerous teaching awards.

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Randell Alexander is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida and the Morehouse School of Medicine. He currently serves as chief of the Division of Child Protection and Forensic Pediatrics and interim chief of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics at the University of Florida-Jacksonville. In addition, he is the statewide medical director of child protections teams for the Department of Health’s Children’s Medical Services and is part of the International Advisory Board for the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome. He has also served as vice chair of the US Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the boards of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and Prevent Child Abuse America. Randell Alexander has served on state child death review committees in Iowa, Georgia, and Florida, and two regional child death review committees. He is an active researcher, lectures widely, and testifies frequently in major child abuse cases throughout the country.

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Robert Parrish began his legal career in the Utah Attorney General’s Office in 1980. In 1983, after representing the Utah Department of Public Safety as its sole counsel and presenting criminal appeals before the Utah Supreme Court, he became a prosecutor and managed trials of all kinds before specializing in child abuse prosecution in the late 1980s. Parrish has worked on both child protection cases and criminal cases involving proof of child abuse issues. While deputy director of the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome from July 2000 to 2002, Parrish consulted on hundreds of cases all over the world, authored a training curriculum for law enforcement and CPS investigators, and wrote articles and chapters for several prosecution and medical texts. Parrish has presented training in England, Australia, and throughout the United States on a variety of topics relating to abusive head trauma in children and focusing on the legal system’s role in responding to this severe form of child abuse. In 2002, Parrish returned to state government as a Guardian ad Litem, representing abused, neglected, and delinquent children in juvenile court and managing six other attorneys and staff.

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