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Child Abuse Team / Mayerson Center

Robert Allan Shapiro, MD

Title

Medical Director

Appointment

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

Email

robert.shapiro@cchmc.org

Phone

513-636-7233

Fax

513-636-0204

Bio

Robert Shapiro, MD, is medical 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.

Credentials

BGS: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1975.

MD: James Scholar, University of Illinois Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill., 1979.

Residency: Bellevue Hospital Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, N.Y., 1982.

Fellowship: Bellevue Hospital Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, N.Y., 1984.

Certification: Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics, 1985; Advanced Trauma Life Support (provider), American College of Surgeons, 1996; Pediatric Advanced Life Support (provider), American Heart Association, 1995; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, American Board of Pediatrics, 1992.

Awards and Honors

  • Division Teaching Award to the Division of Emergency Medicine 1999
  • The Caring Program for Children: Caring Physician, presented by Bristol-Myers Sqibb, 1999
  • Best Doctors in America, 2008

Research Grants and Contracts

1994-1996: Primary Investigator: Center of Excellence grant. Awarded by the State of Ohio to develop outreach and educational services for professionals working with abused children

1997-1998: Primary Investigator: Victims Assistance Funds

1999-2000: Primary Investigator: Children's Advocacy Center Training Grant

Professional Organization Memberships

  • Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics, 1986-present
  • Member, North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 1988-present
  • Member, National Association of Counsel for Children, 1989-present
  • Member, American Academy of Pediatrics; Section on Child Abuse and Neglect, 1989-present; program chair, American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Child Abuse and Neglect, 1997
  • Member, Ambulatory Pediatric Association, 1990-present
  • Member, American Academy of Pediatrics; Section of Emergency Medicine, 1992-present
  • American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, 1996-present
National Committees
  • American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine CD-ROM Project Work group, 1993-1996
  • American Academy of Pediatrics, Executive Committee: Section on Child Abuse and Neglect, 1997-2000
  • Ohio Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics, Regionalization sub-committee -- Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, 1993-1996

Special Interests

Child and sexual abuse; computer education

Editing

  • The Quarterly Child Abuse Medical Update
  • Journal of Pediatrics
  • American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children

Software

Co-author of "Stat-Call", copyrighted software used by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Emergency Department physicians while "on-line" to assist in pre-hospital medical care, 1992.

Assistant editor and member of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine CD-ROM Project Workgroup: KidSTAT Plus, based on Advanced Pediatric Life Support: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Course, second edition, American Academy of Pediatrics, 1996.

Editor, Therapeutics Calculator KidSTAT Plus, American Academy of Pediatrics, 1996.

Community Activities

  • Hamilton County Death Review Committee, 1995-present

Related Areas

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