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About the Author, Robert Parrish
Lori Frasier, MD, FAAP
Lori Frasier is the medical director of Medical Assessment at the Center for Safe and Healthy Families at Primary Children's Medical Center and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah. Formerly, she was an assistant professor of Child Health and the director of the Child Protection Program and Division of General Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Kay Rauth-Farley, MD, FAAP
Kay Rauth-Farley is a board certified pediatrician specializing in forensic pediatrics (child abuse and neglect evaluation). Dr. Farley received her education from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, where she earned BS and MS degrees in biology and, in 1979, her MD. Dr. Farley completed pediatric postgraduate training at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1982 and then practiced general pediatrics for seven years.
Randell Alexander, MD, PhD, FAAP
Randell Alexander is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida and the Morehouse School of Medicine. He currently serves as chief of the Division of Child Protection and Forensic Pediatrics and interim chief of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics at the University of Florida-Jacksonville. In addition, he is the statewide medical director of child protections teams for the Department of Health's Children's Medical Services and is part of the International Advisory Board for the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome.
Robert Parrish, JD
Rob Parrish began his legal career in the Utah Attorney General's Office in 1980. In 1983, after representing the Utah Department of Public Safety as its sole counsel andpresenting criminal appeals before the Utah Supreme Court, he became a prosecutor and managed trials of all kinds before specializing in child abuse prosecution in the late 1980s.
