Theme: Trauma, Learning and Shame

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Heather Forkey

Pediatrician, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Assistant Director of FaCES and an attending pediatrician at with the Child Protection Program, both at UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center. She is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She has great interest and experience with the health care of children in substitute care and children exposed to trauma. Prior to her tenure in Massachusetts, Dr. Forkey was the Co-Director of Safe Place: The Center for Child Protection and Health at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Medical Director of CHOP’s Primary Care Program for Children in Substitute Care and a pediatrician for The Starting Young Program at CHOP, all services designed to provide medical, developmental and health advocacy for children in foster care. In addition to her clinical activities, Dr. Forkey is the author and contributor to a number of publications on the health care of children in substitute care.