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The Mayerson Center For Safe and Healthy Children The Third Annual Patricia A. Myers Conference September 6-7, 2006 Drees Pavilion Covington, Kentucky (Just across the river from Cincinnati) Sponsored by: The Bremer Foundation www.cincinnatchildrens.org/mayerson

Pat Myers Scholar s Fund A Tribute To A Pioneer The Pat Myers Scholar s Fund was established in 2003 with gifts by the Cincinnati Children s Co-Operative and Junior Co-Operative societies in tribute to Patricia Ann Myers, LISW. The fund provides support for Mayerson Center social workers who demonstrates clinical excellence, promotes community service and participates in scholarly activities. Contributions to the Pat Myers Scholar s Fund help support the Annual Patricia A. Myers conference. Pat was the director of the Division of Social Services at Cincinnati Children s Hospital from 1977 until 2003 and was the Mayerson Center s clinical director until her death in August 2003. She was a nationally recognized expert on child abuse and neglect and was one of the founding members of the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children. Her passion for helping abused and neglected children was intense and infectious. She established the original Child Abuse Service at Cincinnati Children s Hospital and educated countless professionals about the identification and management of child abuse. In 2002, Pat received the Social Worker of the Year Award from the Ohio Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers in recognition of her outstanding community service, teaching and research. How to Donate Our partnerships with generous friends and supporters ensure that our work will continue. Please help by making a contribution to the Pat Myers Scholar s Fund or to the Mayerson Center. Call us at 513-636-0037 or mail your gift to Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center Attn: Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children, MLC 3008, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039.

Third Annual Patricia A. Myers Conference Agenda September 6, 2006 Delayed Recall of Childhood Abuse and Neglect, Understanding Recovered Memories 8:30-9:00 am Registration 9:00-9:15 am Introduction 9:15-10:30 am Speaker: Olga Trujillo Exploring the Impact of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse 10:30-10:45 am Break 10:45-Noon Olga Trujillo Noon-1:00 pm Lunch ( Included in Registration Fee) 1:00-1:45 pm Speaker: Frank Putnam, MD Delayed Recall of Trauma: Science and Politics 1:45-2:30 pm Speaker: Richard Loewenstein Therapeutic Implications of Delayed Recall for Trauma: Dilemmas, Ambiguities and Conundrums 2:30-2:45 pm Break 2:45-4:00 pm Panel Discussion, Panel Members: Frank Putnam, Richard Loewenstein 4:00-4:15 pm Evaluations Agenda September 7, 2006 Child Protection, Alternate Systems 8:30-9:00 am Registration 9:00-9:15 am Introduction 9:15-10:45 am Speaker: Richard Krugman How Should We be Protecting Children From Abuse and Neglect in America? 10:45-11:00 am Break 11:00 Noon Speaker: Robert Shapiro Doctor Confidential Centers in Belgium: A Different Approach to Child Protection. Noon-1:00 pm Lunch ( Included In Registration Fee) 1:00-2:30 pm Speaker: Kent Markus What Goldilocks Can Teach Us About Child Welfare Law Reform 2:30-2:45 pm Break 2:45-4:00 pm Panel Discussion, Panel Members: Kristen Gilbert, Bob Shapiro, Kent Markus and Richard Krugman 4:00-4:15 pm Evaluations

Speakers Olga Trujillo, JD Olga Trujillo is a consultant and attorney who started her own consulting business after working for the United States Department of Justice for 13 years. She now concentrates on domestic violence, child abuse and sexual assault issues. Ms. Trujillo is a survivor of child sexual abuse. She has undertaken a journey to understand the impact that violence has had on her life from the domestic violence she witnessed as a child to the abuse she suffered as a child to the rapes she endured as an adult. Through her experience she offers insight into what it means to be a survivor, what we can do to help families, ways one can prevent further victimization and help survivors. As a consultant, Ms. Trujillo has worked with many national organizations addressing the issues of violence against women and children. A nationally sought speaker, Ms. Trujillo has appeared in several videos including Cut it Out a training video on domestic violence focusing on hair stylists and is featured in the video A Survivor s Story a training video based on her experience and live presentations. She recently had an article published in The Resource by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center on Living Dissociative Identity Disorder which was reprinted in the September/October issue of the Sexual Assault Reporter. Kent Markus, JD Kent Markus is a Professor and Director of the National Center for Adoption Law & Policy at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio. This Center is the nation s only entity exclusively dedicated to the reform of child welfare and adoption systems and Professor Markus Adoption Law Course is the only adoption law course offered by an American law school. Professor Markus also teaches a wide range of subject areas from ethics to legislation to Baseball & The Law. While teaching at Capital, Professor Markus was nominated by President Clinton to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He is currently under contract to produce the first adoption law casebook for use by law students. Professor Markus is currently Chair of the Board of Franklin County Children Services, Vice-Chair of the Board of the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation, and Chair of Columbus Neighborhood Safety Working Group. The National Center for Adoption Law & Policy works every day to improve child welfare and adoption systems across the United States. Professor Markus and his staff are committed to the principle that every child deserves a family. Social workers, public policy experts and lawyers at the Adoption Center use research, advocacy and education in their efforts to help all children find safe permanent homes. Kristin Gilbert Kristin Gilbert is an Administrator of Justice Services with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. She has twenty-five years experience in the child welfare field and currently oversees the management of Ohio s Children s Justice Act Program as well as a range of initiatives that focus on system reform and interdisciplinary collaboration. Ms. Gilbert is currently serving as Ohio s Court Improvement Co-Coordinator. She is the only individual within the U.S. who is outside the judicial agency to be appointed by the high court to serve as co-coordinator in this federal program. Ms. Gilbert is responsible for the development of many Ohio programs supporting families and children including Ohio s first state-level Domestic Violence Program and The Family Violence Prevention and Treatment Grant Program. She has served on the executive boards of many state-level organizations, including the Ohio Network of Children s Advocacy Centers, Ohio CASA/GAL Association, Ohio Community Corrections Organization, Ohio Community Justice Alliance, and Ohio Association of Drug Court Professionals. Ms. Gilbert provides grant review and consultant services for the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Juvenile Justice Assistance and is serves as faculty for the National Drug Court Initiative. Richard J. Loewenstein MD Richard J. Loewenstein M.D. is a Senior Psychiatrist and the Medical Director of the Trauma Disorders Program at Sheppard Pratt Health Systems, Baltimore, MD, ranked by U.S. News and World Report as among America s 10 top psychiatric facilities. He is also Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Yale University School of Medicine where he did his residency. After a research fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, MD, he spent 5 years at UCLA and the West LA VA Medical Center. He is the author of over 50 papers and book chapters on sleep disorders, consultation-liaison psychiatry, dissociation, dissociative disorders, and trauma disorders. He has written chapters on Treatment of Dissociative Amnesia and Fugue for the American Psyhciatric Association s book, Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders. He is co-author, with Frank W. Putnam, M.D., of the section on dissociative disorders in Sadock & Sadock s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Eighth Edition. He lectures frequently on these dissociation and trauma to regional, national, and international groups. He is the founder and director of the Trauma Disorders Program at Sheppard Pratt Hospital including a 20-bed inpatient unit, a day hospital program, an outpatient program, a postdoctoral fellowship program, and research, consultation and teaching components.

Robert Shapiro MD Robert Shapiro is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and an attending physician at Children s Hospital Medical Center in Ohio. He is the Medical Director of the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children, a nationally recognized center of excellence for child abuse evaluations and teaching. Dr. Shapiro earned his Medical Degree from the University of Illinois and graduated as a James Scholar. He completed pediatric residency and an ambulatory fellowship at New York University / Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Dr. Shapiro is currently the President of the Ray Helfer society, an international honorary society of physicians who work in the field of child abuse. He is also the Director of the Cincinnati Children s Child Abuse Fellowship and a is a board member of the National Children s Alliance. Dr. Shapiro is the Medical Director of Ohio epassport, a multidisciplinary program which creates an electronic medical record for children in foster care. He has served on the American Academy of Pediatrics Executive Committee Section on Child Abuse and Neglect and was Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Ohio Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect for which he was awarded the Committee Chair of the year in 2003. Dr. Shapiro presents regularly at national meetings on various topics related to child abuse. Richard D. Krugman, MD Richard D. Krugman became Dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine on March 1, 1992, after serving as acting dean for 20 months. A professor of pediatrics, he served as Director of the C. Henry Kempe National Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect from 1981-1992, and has gained international prominence in the field of child abuse. He is also President of University Physicians, Inc., the CU School of Medicine faculty practice plan. Dr. Krugman is a graduate of Princeton University and earned his medical degree at New York University School of Medicine. A board-certified pediatrician, he did his internship and residency in pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Following a two-year appointment in the early 1970 s with the Public Health Service at the National Institute of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Krugman joined the CU faculty in 1973. He went back to the Washington area in 1980 as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow and served for a year as a legislative assistant in the office of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger of Minnesota. At CU, Dr. Krugman has held a variety of a dministrative positions including Director of Admissions and co-director of the Child Health Associate Program; Director of the University s SEARCH/AHEC program; Vice Chairman for Clinical Affairs Department of Pediatrics; and Director of the Kempe Center. He has earned many honors in the field of child abuse and neglect, and headed the U.S. Advisory Board of Child Abuse and Neglect from 1988-1991. More recently, he has worked with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Advisory Board on Health Care Delivery. He was Chair of the AAMC Council of Deans 2001-2002 and is currently Chair-elect of the Association. He has authored over 100 original papers, chapters, editorials and four books and recently stepped down after 15 years as Editor-in-Chief of Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal. He served on the Board of Princeton University from 2001-2005 and is currently on the Boards of Trustees of Denver Health Medical Center, the Academy on Violence and Abuse, the Hasbro Children s Foundation and the Kempe Children s Foundation. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in October, 2005. Frank W. Putnam, MD Frank W. Putnam is a Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati and the Division Director of the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children housed in Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Mayerson Center aims to enhance the ability of families, organizations and professionals to provide safe and healthy environments for children, as well as to prevent, identify and treat child abuse and neglect. Dr. Putnam comes to Cincinnati from the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, D.C. He earned his medical degree at Indiana University School of Medicine in 1975 and completed a residency in psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine in 1979 as well as a residency in child and adolescent psychiatry at Children s National Medical Center in D.C. in 1989. Dr. Putnam is the author of more than 100 scientific publications on the effects of violence and child abuse on children. Dr. Putnam presents regularly at national and some international meetings on children s mental health issues in relation to child abuse.

THIRD ANNUAL PATRICIA A. MYERS CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM Name: Title First MI Last Department or Agency: Office Address: Street City State Zip Phone: Fax: Email: Registration Fee: $95.00 for one day seminar, $150.00 for two day seminar Fax Registration to 513.636.0204 Make Checks Payable to The Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children Mail Registration and checks to Attn: Holly Hammond Cincinnati Children s Medical Center Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children 3333 Burnet Ave, ML 3008 Cincinnati, Oh 45229-3039 Credit Card Information: MasterCard VISA American Express Discover Card Number: Expiration.: Signature: All registrations must be received no later than August 30, 2006. Please contact Holly Hammond with questions @ 513.636.0037. Conference held at Drees Pavilion at Devou Memorial Outlook located in Covington, Kentucky. For directions call 859-431-2577 or go to www.dreespavilion.com. Disability Accomodations: If you need disability accommodations for attending the meeting, please contact the Medical Education Office at 513-636-6732. Our representative will contact you.

Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children Committed to: Identifying and preventing child abuse Helping families provide safe and nurturing homes Educating professionals Empowering communities to recognize and report abuse Developing and validating new diagnostic, prevention and treatment strategies Protecting victims from offenders Accreditation Physicians: Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center is accredited by the Ohio State Medical Association to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. Cincinnati Children s designates this educational activity for a maximum of 5.5 Category 1 credits (Sept 6) and 5.5 Category 1 credits (Sept 7) toward the AMA Physician s Recognition Award. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Psychologists: Cincinnati Children s is approved by the OPA-MCE (provider #00PO-310833936) to offer continuing education for psychologists. This program is approved for 5.5 hours (Sept 6) and 5.5 hours (Sept 7) of MCE credit. Nurses: Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center (OH-046) is an approved provider of continuing education by the Ohio Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center s Commission on Accreditation (OBN-001-91). Provider status valid through 09-01-06. 5.5 contact hours will be awarded to nurses who attend the entire program and complete an evaluation tool (Sept 6). 5.5 contact hours will be awarded to nurses who attend the entire program and complete an evaluation tool (Sept 7). Social Workers: Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center is an approved provider of social work continuing education by the state of Ohio Counselor and Social Worker Board (RCS020602). This workshop is approved for 5.5 hours (Sept 6) and 5.5 hours (Sept 7). Continuing Legal Education Credits: pending approval

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