Kim Oates, an ISPCAN founder, Australia |
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Kim Oates, M.D. DSc MHP FRACP, joined ISPCAN at its first International Congress in Geneva, where he was a plenary speaker. It was the beginning of a lifelong commitment to the organization. In his 30 years as an ISPCAN member, he has served as an Executive Councillor (1984-1992), Chair of the Organizing Committee for ISPCAN’s 6th International Congress (1984-1986) and as President (1988-1990). He was re-elected to ISPCAN Council in 2000 and has sinced served as Chair of the Membership Committee (2002-2006), Member of the Expert Teaching Faculty and is currently ISPCAN Treasurer. He was an Associate Editor of ISPCAN’s journal, Child Abuse and Neglect, for many years and in 2006 became a Senior Editor. Kim has been a speaker at every ISPCAN International Congress, except for the Congress in Durban, South Africa, which he was unable to attend. Dr. Oates always has performed his child abuse work in his “spare” time, in addition to his roles as a general pediatrician, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Sydney, and Chief Executive of Sydney’s major Children’s Hospital, the Children’s Hospital at Westmead (Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children), a position he held from 1997-2006. |
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Other roles at that hospital have included Chairman, Division of Medicine; Head, Child Protection Unit; and Director, Children's Assessment His early pediatric training included posts at St Mary’s Hospital in London; Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Throughout 1993, while on sabbatical, he was Acting Director of the C. Henry Kempe National Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect in Denver. Kim has received numerous awards, including the Brandt Steele Award (1994), the Kempe Award (2000), and ISPCAN’s Distinguished Service Award (1998), as well as a range of other national and international awards, including Member of the Order of Australia. In Australia, he has chaired the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN), was the inaugural chair of the Commonwealth of Australia's National Council on the Prevention of Child Abuse and the inaugural Chair of the New South Wales Child Death Review Team. He has published widely in the field, particularly on the long-term effect of physical abuse, non-organic failure to thrive and sexual abuse. He has authored, co-authored, or edited 14 books, 52 other book chapters, and over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles on child protection, child development and other pediatric issues. He currently is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Sydney, where he is undertaking a review of the University’s graduate medical program, including the medical curriculum and admission criteria. ISPCAN is proud to call Dr. Kim Oates a member. |
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