Newswise — The American Academy of Pediatrics has a number of pediatricians who specialize in violence prevention and mental health issues available for interviews to discuss the recent campus shooting tragedy at Virginia Tech.
David Schonfeld, M.D., FAAP, Director, Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics; Director, National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement, Cinncinati Children's Hospital, member of the AAP Council on School Health and the Section on Development and Behavioral Pediatrics.
Denise Dowd, M.D., FAAP, Section Chief of Injury Prevention at Children's Mercy Hospital and the Co-Director of the Center for Childhood Safety, member of the AAP Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention Committee.
Robert Sege, M.D., FAAP, Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, and Director of the Pediatric and Adolescent Health Research Center at the New England Medical Center in Boston, member of the AAP Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention Committee.
Joseph Wright, M.D., FAAP, Executive Director of Child Health Advocacy Institute and Vice Chair of Pediatrics for Child Advocacy, member of the AAP Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention Committee.
Jane Foy, M.D., FAAP, Chair of the AAP Task Force on Mental Health
Donald Shifrin, M.D., FAAP, Chair of the AAP Committee on Communications
Robert Murray, M.D., FAAP, Chairperson Elect of the AAP Council on School Health
Danielle LaRaque, M.D., FAAP, Chief, Division of General Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, member of the AAP Task Force on Mental Health.
The AAP Web site, http://www.aap.org, has resources available for parents, teachers, students, children, teens, and physicians. Included are tips on talking to children after a disaster, stress management guidelines for children and teens, and gun violence prevention.
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