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Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children

Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children

 

  • Meet the Team

    The Mayerson Center staff evaluates, treats and prevents child maltreatment. The staff consists of Cincinnati police and sheriff officers, Department of Human Services workers and a victim advocate from the Hamilton County prosecutor's office, along with Cincinnati Children's staff of physicians, nurses and social workers. It collaborates and expedites the diagnosis and investigation of child abuse allegations. Mandated agencies throughout the region also can utilize the center and its resources.

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    Department Head

    A photo of Robert Shapiro.

    Robert Allan Shapiro, MD
    Director, Child Abuse Team / Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children

    513-636-0037

    bob.shapiro@cchmc.org

    Robert Shapiro, MD.
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    Robert Allan Shapiro, MD

    Director, Child Abuse Team / Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children

    Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

    Phone: 513-636-0037

    Fax: 513-636-0204

    Email: bob.shapiro@cchmc.org

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    Specialties

    Child abuse; physical training; telemedicine; diagnosis of child abuse

    Biography

    Robert Shapiro, MD, is director of the Child Abuse Team at Children's Hospital Medical Center and director of the Child Abuse and Forensic Pediatrics Fellowship.

    Dr. Shapiro's role on the team includes inpatient and outpatient consultations and evaluations for suspected child physical or sexual abuse. These consultations and evaluations are completed in collaboration with a social worker on the team. He also teaches child abuse diagnosis to students, residents and post-graduate fellows.

    Dr. Shapiro's research interests include sexually transmitted infections and fractures caused by abuse. The Child Abuse and Forensic Pediatrics Fellowship he directs is a one-year training program for Pediatricians. The fellowship program emphasizes child abuse clinical, research, educational and administrative expertise and advocacy.

    Education and Training

    MD: University of Illinois Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 1979.

    Residency: Pediatrics, Bellevue Hospital Center - New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, 1982.

    Fellowship: Pediatric Ambulatory Care, Bellevue Hospital Center - New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, 1984.

    Certification: Pediatrics, 1985; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 1992.

    Publications

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    Faculty

    Elena M. Duma, MD
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    Elena M. Duma, MD

    Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

    Phone: 513-636-2277

    Fax: 513-636-7967

    Email: elena.duma@cchmc.org

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    Specialties

    Child abuse
     

    Biography

    Elena Duma, MD, is a physician in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Children's Hospital Medical Center. She has been at Children's Hospital Medical Center since 1991, with five years as a clinical staff physician in the Division of Emergency Medicine.

    After receiving an undergraduate and medical degree at the University of Tennessee, Dr. Duma did her pediatric residency at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati. She has been part of the Child Abuse Team since March 1999.

    Dr. Duma's role on the team includes participating in weekly meetings, seeing patients in the Emergency Department as well as inpatient and outpatient units, and participating in weekly team meetings.

    Education and Training

    MD: University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, 1991.

    Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.

    Certification: Pediatrics, 1995.

    Publications

    View PubMed Publications
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    Kathi L. Makoroff, MD
    Fellowship Director, Child Abuse Pediatrics

    513-636-0037

    kathi.makoroff@cchmc.org

    A photo of Kathi Makoroff.
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    Kathi L. Makoroff, MD

    Fellowship Director, Child Abuse Pediatrics

    Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

    Phone: 513-636-0037

    Fax: 513-636-0204

    Email: kathi.makoroff@cchmc.org

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    Education and Training

    MD: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA.

    Residency: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

    Fellowship: Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.

    Certification: Pediatrics, 1997.

    A photo of Erica Pearl, PsyD.

    Erica S. Pearl, PsyD
    Clinical Psychologist, Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology / Mayerson Center

    513-636-1734

    erica.pearl@cchmc.org

    A photo of Erica Pearl, PsyD.
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    Erica S. Pearl, PsyD

    Clinical Psychologist, Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology / Mayerson Center

    Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

    Phone: 513-636-1734

    Fax: 513-636-0204

    Email: erica.pearl@cchmc.org

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    Specialties

    Children and families exposed to domestic violence; children in foster care

    Biography

    Erica S. Pearl, PsyD, received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH. In September 2004, she joined the Trauma Treatment Replication Center, a joint collaborative of the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children and the Childhood Trust, to provide training and consultation to community providers in the area of evidence-based treatments for traumatized children and families. She trains community providers in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE), a program for non-clinical providers who interact with traumatized children.

    Education and Training

    BA: Ohio University, Athens, OH, 1999.

    PsyD: Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, 2004.

    Predoctoral Internship: UC Davis Children's Hospital, Sacramento, Ohio, 2003-2004.

    Postdoctoral Fellowship: Childhood Trauma and Maltreatment, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2004-2005.

    Publications

    A photo of Frank Putnam.

    Frank W. Putnam, MD
    Adjunct Professor, Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children

    513-636-7001

    frank.putnam@cchmc.org

    A photo of Frank Putnam, MD.

    Frank W. Putnam, MD

    Adjunct Professor, Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children

    Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

    Phone: 513-636-7001

    Email: frank.putnam@cchmc.org

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    Specialties

    Clinical Interests

    Child Abuse and Neglect; dissociative disorders; maternal depression

    Research Interests

    Child maltreatment; maternal depression; dissociative disorder; dissemination of evidence-based practices in community setting

    Biography

    Following his training in adult psychiatry at Yale University, Frank W. Putnam, MD, joined the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program (NIMH) in Bethesda, MD, studying biological rhythms and neuroendocrine systems in rapid cycling bipolar patients. There he encountered a large number of psychiatric patients who reported histories of child maltreatment.

    Dr. Putnam began working with patients who suffered from trauma-related disorders, pioneering studies of brain electrical activity mapping and other techniques in this area. Working with adult victims of child abuse, Dr. Putnam became convinced that research with abused children was critical to understanding and reversing the negative psychological and biological effects of maltreatment.

    In 1986, Dr. Putnam started a longitudinal research study of sexually abused girls with Penelope Trickett, PhD, a developmental psychologist at the University of Southern California. This study continues under the direction of Jennie Noll, PhD, and has produced a great deal of new information about the long-term effects of maltreatment on child development.

    Convinced many of the lessons learned in this research can be applied to treatment of child abuse, Dr. Putnam left the NIMH to head the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and to be director of the Trauma Treatment Replication Center, specializing in the transfer of evidence-based practices to community mental health providers.

    The mission of the Center for Safe and Healthy Children is to develop a national child abuse prevention, evaluation and treatment center that develops and disseminates evidence-based interventions for the many negative effects of child abuse and neglect.

    Dr. Putnam is on the advisory board for the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement.

    Education and Training

    MD: Indiana University Medical School, 1975.

    MA: Indiana University, 1974.

    Residency: Adult Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 1976-79.

    Fellowship: George Washington University, Washington DC, 1986-89.

    Certification: Adult Psychiatry 1980; Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1992.

    Publications

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    Grants

    Continuum of Trauma Care. Principal Investigator. 2009 - 2012.

    Staff

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    Mary P. Burke, RN
    Registered Nurse, Mayerson Center

    513-636-7233

    mary.burke@cchmc.org

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    Sharon Nolan Dickman, RN, BSN
    Education Sepcialist, Center for Safe & Healthy Children

    513-636-0045


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    Andrea E. Richey, MSW, LSW
    Social Worker, Center for Safe & Healthy Children

    513-636-0786

    andrea.falberg@cchmc.org

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    Cecilia C. Freihofer, MSW, LSW
    Social Worker / Forensic Interviewer, Center for Safe & Healthy Children

    513-636-0033

    cecilia.freihofer@cchmc.org


    A photo of Heidi Malott.

    Heidi A. Malott, MSW, LISW
    Clinical Coordinator, Division of Social Services

    513-636-0039

    heidi.malott@cchmc.org

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    Tammy L. Vogelgesang, LISW, MSW
    Social Worker, Mayerson Center

    513-636-7233

    tammy.vogelgesang@cchmc.org


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