Society Awards
The Helfer Award
The Helfer Award is given annually to the member of the Society who has made significant contributions to the field of Child Abuse Pediatrics. Select the links below for biographical information on the award recipients. Awards were not presented in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Past Award Recipients
- 2024 Mary Clyde Pierce, MD
- 2023 Kent Hymel, MD
- 2022 Kristine Campbell, MD, MSc
- 2021 Rachel Berger, MD and Christopher Greeley, MD, MS, FAAP
- 2019 Alison Kemp, MD and Sabine Maguire, MD
- 2018 Lori Frasier, MD
- 2017 Emalee Flaherty, MD
- 2016 Lawrence Ricci, MD
- 2015 Howard Dubowitz, MD
- 2014 Carol Berkowitz, MD
- 2013 Cindy Christian, MD
- 2012 Martin A. Finkel, DO
- 2011 Alex Levin, MD
- 2010 John Leventhal, MD and Stephen Ludwig, MD
- 2008 Kenneth W. Feldman, MD
- 2007 John J. McCann, MD
- 2006 Robert W. Block, MD
- 2005 Paul K. Kleinman, MD
- 2004 Carole Jenny, MD
- 2003 David L. Chadwick, MD
- 2001 Robert M. Reece, MD
- 2000 Robert H. Kirschner, MD
The Helfer Teaching Award
The Helfer Teaching Award is presented annually (beginning in 2013) to the member of the Society who has made significant contributions as a teacher of Child Abuse Pediatrics.
Past Award Recipients
- 2024 Kathi Makoroff, MD
- 2023 Toni Laskey, MD
- 2022 Nancy Harper, MD, FAAP
- 2021 Emily Killough, MD
- 2019 John Melville, MD
- 2018 Suzanne Starling, MD
- 2017 Randell Alexander, MD
- 2016 Nancy Kellogg, MD
- 2015 Sara E. Schuh, MD
- 2014 Sara Sinal, MD
- 2013 Marilyn Kaufhold, MD
Helfer Presentation Awards
The Helfer Presentation Awards are presented annually for the best presentations by regular and scholar members at the Annual Meeting. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the nature of the virtual conference, Best Long Presentation awards were not presented in 2020.
Past Award Recipients
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Scholar Members
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2023 Best Long Presentation: Hank Puls, Public Benefits and Child Maltreatment: Implications for Prevention and Equity
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2023 Best Long Presentation: Dan Lindberg, Angela Bachim, Tagrid Ruiz- Maldonado,Chris Greeley and Kristine Campbell, Resolved: Mandated Reporting Laws Should be Repealed |
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2023 Best Short Presentation: Angela Bachim & Amanda Small, Factor XIII in Abusive Head Trauma Evaluations
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2023 Best Short Presentation: Katie Johnson, Growing our Field: How to Integrate Early and Longitudinal Exposure to Child Abuse Pediatrics into Medical Education |
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2022 Best Long Presentation: Christopher Greeley, MD, upSTART: a Community-based, Comprehensive Child Maltreatment Prevention Model
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| 2022 Best Short Presentation: Dena Nazer, MD, When It's All Fun and Games: Gamification of Child Abuse Medical Education |
2022 Best Short Presentation: Anish Raj, MD, It Takes a Village: Creating a Specialized Medical Home For Sex-Trafficked Youth |
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2021 Best Long Presentation: Dan Lindberg, MD, Christopher Greeley, MD, Nancy Harper, MD, Rachel Berger, MD and Tagrid Ruiz, MD, Resolved: General EDs SHOULD implement EHR-based routine screening for child maltreatment
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2021 Best Long Presentation: Katherine Canty, MD, Melissa Jimenez, MD, Catherine DeRidder, MD and Amanda Brownell, MD, A Case(s) for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Beyond the Cervical Spine in Suspected AHT |
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2021 Best Short Presentation: Mary Clyde Pierce, MD and Todd Everson, Lower DNA methylation in the stress response gene, FKBP5: an epigenetic study in young children with abusive versus accidental injuries
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2021 Best Short Presentation: Nicholas Lopez,MD, Does hypoxic and reperfusion injury cause intracranial hemorrhage? A retrospective study of drowning and near drowning victims |
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2020 Best Short Presentation: Christine Barron, MD, Michael Iacone and Jessica Moore, Utilizing a Comfort Therapy Dog as Part of a Multidisciplinary Team for Child Maltreatment Case
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2020 Best Short Presentation: Ajay Koti, MD, Subconjunctival Hemorrhages as Sentinel Injuries in Child Physical Abuse |
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2019 Best Long Presentation: Sandeep Narang, MD and Kajal Sachdev, Understanding Overturned and Exonerated Shaken Baby Syndrome Cases
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2019 Best Long Presentation: Angela Bachim, MD, What is Known about the Anatomic Pathology of Subdural Hemorrhages and How Can It Help in Determining Etiology |
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2019 Best Short Presentation: Alex Levin, MD, Retinal Findings in Children with Increased Intracranial Pressure
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2019 Best Short Presentation: Heather Forkey, MD and Sasha Svenson, MD, Taking on the Tough Topic of Trauma |
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2018 Best Long Presentation: Tom Roesler, MD and Rebecca Girardet, MD, Integrated Med-Psych Programs: a Different Approach to Medical Maltreatment
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2018 Best Short Presentation: Gil Binenbaum, MD,Patterns of Retinal Hemorrhage Associated With Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
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2018 Best Short Presentation: Kirsten Simonton, MD, Coming Out of the Margins: LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care
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2017 Best Long Presentation: Gabrielle Otterman, MD and Joelle Morenoe, Unreasonable Doubt: How Swedish Courts and Agencies Are Undermining the Science in Abusive Head Trauma Cases
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2017 Best Long Presentation: Angela Bachim, MD and Catherine Ambrose, Durable? Delicate? An Exploration of the Mechanical Properties of Infant Bone Suggests Baby Bones Are Not as Easy to Break as Some May Think
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| 2017 Best Short Presentation: Mary Clyde Pierce, MD and Kim Kaczor, MD, Bruising Clinical Decision Rule (BCDR) Discriminates Physical Child Abuse from Accidental Trauma: A Validation Study and An Analysis of the Impact of Age Threshold on the Performance of a Bruising Clinical Decision Rule (BCDR) for Discriminating Physical Abuse from Accidental Trauma in Infants 0-12 Months of Age |
2017 Best Short Presentation: Jennifer Smith, MD and Romy Cho, MD, Secondary Traumatic Stress: Developing and Implementing a Program to Build Resilience in Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellows |
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2016 Best Long Presentation: Tara Harris, MD, Animal Abuse - An Important Component of Family Violence
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2016 Best Short Presentation: Jonathan Thackeray, MDDevelopment of a Statewide Quality Improvement Collaborative on Sentinel Injuries in Infants: The TRAIN Collaborative
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2016 Best Short Presentation: Emily Killough, MD, Terra Frazier, MD, Monica Nielsen-Parker, LSCSW, Child Protector - A Smartphone App Decision Tool for Medical and Investigative Personnel
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2015 Best Long Presentation: Chris Greeley, MD, Daniel Lindberg, MD, Sabine McGuire, MD, Resolved: Neuroimaging Is Useless for Determining the Timing of Traumatic Brain Injury in Cases With Concern for Abuse
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2015 Best Long Presentation: Brooks Keeshin, MD, PTSD in the DSM 5 Era: Implications for the Child Abuse Pediatrician
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2015 Best Short Presentation: Chris Greeley, MD, Navigating the Current Media Landscape
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2015 Best Short Presentation (three-way tie): Norell Atkinson, MD, Childhood Falls With Occipital Impacts
Hiu-fai Fong, MD, Caregiver Perceptions About Mental Health Services After Child Sexual Abuse
Hillary Petska, MD, Occult Drug Exposure in Children Evaluated for Physical Abuse
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2014 Best Long Presentation: John Stirling, MD, Aftermath: Medical Response to Trauma-Related Behavioral Changes
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2014 Best Presentation: Sandeep Narang, MD, Expert Witness School
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2014 Best Short Presentation: Gil Binenbaum, MD, Vaccinations and Retinal Hemorrhages in Outpatient Eye Examinations
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2013 Best Long Presentation: Howard Dubowitz, MD and Wendy Lane, MD, The Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) Model: Promoting Children’s Health, Development and Safety
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2013 Best Presentation: Meggan Goodpasture, MD, Establishing a Formal Collaboration Between the Advanced Care Team and the Child Abuse Team to Address Concerns of Medical Child Abuse
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2013 Best Short Presentation: Kent Hymel, MD, The Potential Impact of a Future, Validated Clinical Prediction Rule for Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma (AHT)
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2012 Long Presentation: Frank Putnam, "Twenty years of follow-up: a multi-generational study of antecedents & outcomes of child sexual abuse"
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2012 Long Presentation: Brooks Keeshin, "Evidence based mental health trauma screening & referral: a primer for child abuse pediatrician"
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2012 Short Presentation: Christopher Greeley, "A prospective analysis of rib fractures in infant fatalities"
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2012 Short Presentation: Kristine Fortin, "Missed appointments as an indicator of poor control & medical neglect among children with type 1 diabetes"
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Committee Awards
In the fall of 2012 the Helfer Executive Committee established a new award program to support the work of Helfer Committees. Two awards were announced on January 1. Please select this link for descriptions of the projects being funded.
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