ISPCAN/Inter-CAP Petit four Webinar

Dr. Joanne K. Nelson is a Consultant Paediatrician, Forensic Physician and Clinical Director of the Child and Adolescent Sexual Assault Treatment Service in West and Mid-West Ireland (The Hazel Clinic @ Barnahus West). She graduated from Cambridge and Oxford Universities in the UK, with post graduate training in Northern Ireland and New Zealand. Barnahus West in Galway is the first of three Barnahus in Ireland within which Dr Nelson leads forensic medical services for child victims of sexual abuse integrating with dedicated Barnahus Social Workers, Therapeutic teams and Specialist Forensic Interviewers. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Ireland, Member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and Member and Examiner for the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine UK. Dr Nelson acts as an expert medical witness for cases of child abuse and neglect. She holds numerous local, regional and national leadership and advocacy positions and participates actively in education, research, teaching and training related to forensic medicine and child protection.

Dr. Farst has worked as a child abuse pediatrician with the Team for Children at Risk at Arkansas Children’s Hospital since 2004. She completed undergraduate and medical school training at Texas Tech University. Following residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics, she was in primary care private practice for 3 years before completing a fellowship in child abuse pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She is currently a professor of pediatrics with the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Chief Medical Officer for Arkansas Children’s Hospital.

Dr Benoit graduated in Clinical Psychopathology in 1999 from the University of Toulouse II. She has always worked with minors and their families in positions where child protection was necessary such as in prisons, schools or judicial settings. She joined the team of the UAPED Orléans in 2013.  Dr Benoit has trained at the EMDR since 2015 and has been an Expert near the Court of Appeal of Orleans since 2023.  She has articles published on the psychological reassessment in criminal proceedings (2025-2026)

Dr. Anish Raj is a triple board-certified pediatric physician who splits his clinical time between WakeMed Pediatric Primary Care and the SAFEchild Advocacy Center. He received his medical degree from the Florida State University College of Medicine and subsequently completed combined program residency training in Pediatrics/Psychiatry/Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Brown University and fellowship training in Child Abuse Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. His academic interests primarily revolve around domestic minor sex trafficking, and his work in the field has allowed him opportunities to present at both pediatric and psychiatry national and international conferences. He also serves as a co-founder of the Adolescent Protection Collaborative, a specialized medical home for sex-trafficked youth in Philadelphia.

Gabriel Otterman, co-course director at InterCAP, is a Senior Consultant Paediatrician and Medical Director of the Child Protection Team at Uppsala University Children’s Hospital in Uppsala, Sweden. He also serves as Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Barnafrid National Centre on Violence Against Children at the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences at Linköping University. Dr. Otterman is founding co-chair of the Section on Child Maltreatment of the Swedish Paediatric Society. His research and clinical interests currently focus on an innovative trauma-informed medical home model for children and adolescents in out-of-home care. Dr. Otterman currently serves as Vice Chair of the EU COST Action project, Multi-sectoral responses to child abuse and neglect in Europe (Euro-CAN). The project aims to better understand the incidence and trends of child abuse and neglect and improve data collection by building a collaborative research and advocacy network with representatives from 35 countries across the European Region. He is a member of the Board of Directors at the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN).

Dr. Kathi Makoroff is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and has been a full time child abuse faculty member at the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Cincinnati Children's Hospital since 1997; she is currently the Medical Director and Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellowship Director at the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children. Dr. Makoroff earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with honors from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. After completing a residency in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Dr. Makoroff received training in child abuse including a research fellowship in Child Abuse Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Dr. Makoroff received her Masters in Education from the University of Cincinnati in 2010. She has held numerous local, regional and national leadership positions in the areas of education and child abuse pediatrics.