Registration - Babies and Toddlers Inc.

2023 New York City Babies and Toddlers Trauma Investigation Conference

November 16-17, 2023

Office of Chief Medical Examiner Auditorium

421 East 26^th Street, New York City

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Pre-verbal babies and toddlers can’t ask for help when they are injured. Justice in every case demands the highest level of competency from each member of the multi-disciplinary team involved in these investigations.

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Babies and Toddlers, Inc.
Post Office Box 3350
New York, New York 10008-3350

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P. Leigh Bishop

Leigh Bishop is the President and Founder of Babies and Toddlers, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides training to doctors, lawyers and law enforcement involved in the investigation of serious injuries and deaths of children under the age of 4 years. She served for more than 22 years as an Assistant District Attorney in Queens County, New York and for more than 5 years as the Chief of the first-of-its-kind Child Fatality Unit established by the Queens District Attorney’s Office in 2014. Leigh specializes in homicide and assault investigations and prosecutions involving babies and toddlers with Abusive Head Trauma and is nationally recognized as a resource on the relevant medical and legal issues. Leigh is a 1992 graduate from Rhodes College (Memphis, Tennessee) and she is a 1996 graduate from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law (Dallas, Texas). Leigh is originally from Birmingham, Alabama. Roll Tide!

Dr. Vincent J. Palusci

Bellevue Hospital Frances L. Loeb Child Protection and Development Center, New York University School of Medicine

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David L. Taub

David L. Taub is a partner in the New York office of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, the international law firm. David is head of the firm’s Financial Institutions Advisory Practice and is a member of the Firm’s Management Committee. His practice focuses on three core areas: derivatives and financial products, distressed municipal credits and FinTech/blockchain. David is a magna cum laude graduate of Brown University (1981), where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa and a graduate of Berkeley Law – – the University of California (1984).

Joelle-Anne Moreno

Associate Dean & Professor of Law Joelle Anne Moreno is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Swarthmore College, and most importantly for a native New Yorker, Stuyvesant High School. Before beginning her academic career, she served as a federal prosecutor for the United States Department of Justice.

Professor Moreno is an experienced teacher of Evidence, Scientific and Forensic Evidence, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, Criminal Advocacy, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Her research and scholarship focuses on scientific evidence and constitutional criminal justice issues and includes articles that have appeared in a range of legal, medical and scientific journals including Boston University, Florida, Ohio State, Arizona, Penn State, Tulane, Utah, and Akron law reviews, the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, and Pediatric Radiology. As a firm believer that academic work should have real world application, she has examined the public health impact of misusing scientific and medical evidence in the context of child abuse and vaccine refusal. She is a co-author of the Consensus Statement on Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Young Children (2018) and the recipient of the 2018 Presidential Recognition Award from the Society for Pediatric Radiology. Over the past two decades, she has presented her work at legal, scientific and medical conferences around the world including programs held at Yale, Akron, Houston, William & Mary, Thomas Jefferson, Seton Hall, and Michigan State law schools; meetings of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the judges of the U.S. Court of Claims, the World Vaccine Congress, and the Queens District Attorney’s Office; and the American Medical Association, European Society for Paediatric Radiology, ISPCAN, the American Society for Pediatric Neuroradiology, Inter-CAP, the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome, and the Society for Pediatric Radiology. Professor Moreno also serves on the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ Multistate Essay Examination Drafting Committee and is a past chair of the AALS Evidence Section.

Mark A. Mittler

Mark A. Mittler, MD is the co-director of The Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Cohen Children’s Medical Center of Northwell Health. A New York native, Dr. Mittler completed his undergraduate and medical education at the University of Rochester. His neurosurgical residency and chief residency were completed at Brown University, and his fellowship in Pediatric Neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Mittler is a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is board certified in Neurological Surgery and Pediatric Neurological Surgery. Dr. Mittler serves as the Director of Neurosurgery Quality Assurance of the Northwell Health Department of Neurosurgery. He is the Neurosurgery Liaison for the region’s largest American College of Surgeons verified Pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center at Cohen Children’s Medical Center. In addition to his expertise in brain and spinal injury, Dr. Mittler’s clinical interests span the spectrum of pediatric neurosurgical disorders–including brain and spinal cord tumors, craniosynostosis, hydrocephalus, Chiari malformations, and minimally invasive neurosurgical techniques.

The Honorable Arthur J. Cooperman

Arthur J. Cooperman served as a State Supreme Court Justice in Queens from 1983-2009. He conducted approximately 500 trials during that time. Previously, he had been a NYC Civil Court Judge from 1980-1982. He had been a member of the NYS Assembly from 1969-1979 and was chairman of its Judiciary Committee for three years. He served as a first lieutenant in the US Army Signal Corps from 1955-1957. He received an LLB from the NYU School of Law in 1960 and a BA from its University College in 1955.

Cindy W. Christian

Cindy W. Christian, M.D. holds Anthony A. Latini endowed Chair in the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Christian serves as Assistant Dean in the Program for Diversity and Inclusion at the Perelman School of Medicine, supporting students in their community volunteer activities. Dr. Christian completed her pediatric residency and child abuse pediatrics fellowship at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she has spent her career. For more than two decades, she directed the child protection program at CHOP. She is a faculty director of the Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice and Research at The University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Christian is a past Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, and past chair of the sub-board on Child Abuse and Neglect for the American Board of Pediatrics. From 2010-2015, Dr. Christian served as the first medical director for the Philadelphia Department of Human Services, leading the development of policies and strategies to improve the health of Philadelphia’s dependent children. Dr. Christian has written and lectured extensively on topics related to all forms of child maltreatment.