Symposium - Thursday Schedule:

Welcome and Opening

Mr. Jon Nelson
Deputy Associate Administrator, HRSA, MCHB

Dr. David Heppel, MD
Division Director of Child, Adolescent and Family Health, HRSA MCHB

Cecilia DuFuenquela-Fuentes
Program Manager, DOJ OJJDP

A Snapshot of Child Death Review, Injury Prevention and Title V in the U.S.

CAPT Stephanie Bryn, MPH
Director of Injury and Violence Prevention, HHRSA, MCHB

Theresa M. Covington, MPH -- PDF file of slides
Executive Director
National Center for Child Death Review

Sally Fogerty, BSN, MEd
Director
Children’s Safety Network

Plenary: Building Bridges to Prevent Child Deaths and Injuries: Why Should it Matter and How Can it be Done?

Carolyn Cumpsty Fowler, PhD , MPH -- PDF file of slides
Assistant Professor Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and JHU School of Nursing;
Director, Injury Prevention Program,
Baltimore County Department of Health, Maryland

Dr. Fowler is a nurse epidemiologist and core faculty member of the Mid-Atlantic Public Health Training Center and the Center for Injury Research and Policy, has conducted research into traumatic brain injury in children; child pedestrian injury; psycho-social outcomes from bicycle-related head injury in children; recreational injury; penetrating eye injury; and outcomes from maxillo-facial injury. Currently she is engaged in design and evaluation of community efforts to reduce home injury risk, and sleep environment-related death in infants.

Dr. Fowler, who serves as Faculty Director for the Johns Hopkins Summer Institute "Principles and Practice of Injury Prevention", is an active injury prevention practitioner and licensed Child Passenger Safety Technician and directs an injury prevention program in a local health department. She serves on the National Advisory Committee for Child Death Review, the Maryland Injury Prevention Partnership Advisory Board, and chairs the Baltimore County Child Death Review Team. Dr. Fowler, former chairperson of the Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control at CDC, now serves as Co-Chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at CDC.

Plenary: Being Smart-Preventing Child Deaths by Using Our Knowledge on Data, Best Practices and Review Findings

Timothy E. Corden, MD -- PDF file of slides
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Co-Director, Policy Core, Injury Research Center
Medical College of Wisconsin
Associate Director, PICU
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

Timothy E. Corden, MD is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Associate Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Unit at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. He is the Co-Director of the Policy Core at the Injury Research Center. Dr. Corden chairs the legislative committee of the Wisconsin American Academy of Pediatrics and has partnered with legislators on multiple legislative bills including the recently passed Child Passenger Safety law. As Co-Director of the IRC Policy Core, Dr. Corden uses his clinical experience and policy background to help guide the Core in its efforts to use policy as a tool to reduce the burden of injury and to educate future and current healthcare professionals on the importance of bringing their skills to the policy process in their communities.

Proof That It Can be Done!

Sharan D. James, MSW -- PDF file of slides
Program Manager of the Fatality Review Program
DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

Stephanie Biegler, BS -- PDF file of slides
Director, Child Abuse Prevention Council of Sacramento,
Child Abuse Prevention Center

Judy Bannon
Executive Director, Cribs for Kids and S.I.D.S. of Pennsylvania

Luncheon Presentation: Maximizing the Opportunity of Child Death Review: Lessons Learned from Washington State

Brian Johnston, MD -- PDF file of slides

Awards Presentation: Champions for Children

Presenter:

Mary Wakefield, Ph.D., R.N
Administrator
Health Resources and Services Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Mary Wakefield serves as Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) She earned a bachelor of science degree in nursing from the University of Mary in Bismarck and master's and doctoral degrees in nursing from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Wakefield joined HRSA from the University of North Dakota (UND), where she was associate dean for rural health at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, a tenured professor, and director of the university's Center for Rural Health.

In the 1990s, she served as chief of staff to two North Dakota senators: Kent Conrad (D) and Quentin Burdick (D). She also has served as director of the Center for Health Policy, Research and Ethics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and worked on site as a consultant to the World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr. Wakefield is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and was elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies in 2004. In addition, she has served on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, as chair of the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, as a member of President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, and as a member of the National Advisory Committee to HRSA's Office of Rural Health Policy.

Awardees:

Janet Napolitano
United States Secretary of Homeland Security
Former Governor, State of Arizona

Gus Kolilis
Chief, State Technical Assistance Team (STAT)- Retired
Missouri Department of Social Servicesbr

Judy Bannon
Executive Director
Cribs for Kids

Skill Building Workshops:

A. Data: Understanding and Using Morbidity and Mortality Data

Holly Hackman, MD, MPH
Epidemiologist
Division of Violence and Injury Prevention
Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Laurin Kasehagen , MA, PhD
MCH Epidemiologist /CDC Assignee to CityMatCH
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics, Section on Child Health Policy

Moderator:
Mary D. Overpeck, DrPH
Senior Research Scientist
National Center for Child Death Review

B. The Perils, Pitfalls and Opportunities of Managing Effective Multidisciplinary Teams for CDR, MCH and Injury

Stephanie Biegler, BS
Director, Child Abuse Prevention Council of Sacramento: An agency of the Child Abuse Prevention Center

Susan Pfiefer, RN, MN
Public Health Nurse
Tacoma Pierce County Health Department, State of Washington

Jamie Smith, MPH, MS
Child Fatality Review Program Manager
Arizona Department of Health Services
Bureau of Women's and Children's Health

Moderator:
Angela D. Mickalide, PhD, CHES
Director of Education and Outreach
Home Safety Council

C. Taking Action to Prevent Deaths: Integrating Data, Reviews and Best Practices into Making Effective Recommendations

Theresa M. Covington, MPH
Executive Director
National Center for Child Death Review

Stephen Wirtz, Ph.D.
Chief, Violent Injury Surveillance Unit
Epidemiology and Prevention for Injury Control (EPIC) Branch
California Department of Public Health

D. Engaging Policy Makers in Our Injury Prevention, MCH and CDR Efforts

Sally Fogerty, B.S.N., M.Ed. -- PDF file of slides
Director
Children’s Safety Network

Martha King, M.S.W., M.P.A. -- PDF file of slides
Health Program Director
National Conference of State Legislatures

Cindy Pellegrini, B.A. -- PDF file of slides
Assistant Director, Dept. of Federal Affairs
American Academy of Pediatrics

E. Reviewing Infant Deaths from Perinatal Causes: Using Lessons from and Working Together with Fetal and infant Mortality Reviews

Kathy Buckley, MSN, CNM
Director, National Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Program
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Rosemary Fournier, RN, BNS
State FIMR Program Coordinator
Michigan Department of Community Health

Go to: Main Symposium Page - Wednesday Page - Thursday Page - Friday Page

Back to top