Marcia Herman-Giddens Papers, 1978-2007

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Creator:
Herman-Giddens, Marcia.
Abstract:
Marcia Herman-Giddens was a practicing pediatrician and professor in the Department of Pediatrics for the Duke University Medical Center, as well as a medical consultant for state and private child abuse cases. This collection is comprised of medical writings, manuscripts, statistics, publications, presentation transcripts and PowerPoints, abstracts, advertisements, manuals, legal records, and team and committee reports. Major subjects include Herman-Giddens' medical research and her work with Duke University Medical Center's Child Protection Team. Materials range in date from 1978 to 2007.
Extent:
1.5 Linear Feet (1 carton)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
MC.0129

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Scope and content:

Contains medical writings, manuscripts, statistics, publications, presentation transcripts and PowerPoints, abstracts, advertisements, manuals, legal records, and team and committee reports related to Marcia Herman-Giddens medical work and research, particularly her work with Duke University Medical Center's Child Protection Team. Materials date from 1978 to 2007.

Biographical / historical:

Marcia Herman-Giddens received her Bachelors of Health Sciences degree from Duke University in 1978, and her Masters of Public Health and Doctor of Public Health from the University of North Carolina in 1985 and 1994, respectively. After graduation, she returned to Duke as a practicing pediatrician for Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) for five years. She then joined the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics, where she served for eleven years, and the Department of Community and Family Medicine, where she served for four years.
While at DUMC, Herman-Giddens directed the medical center's Child Protection Team. The team was originally formed by herself, Drs. Peter English and Thomas Frothingham, and clinical social workers Susan Quinn-Pierce and Nancy Berson in the wake of a rapidly expanding focus on child abuse and neglect in the general United States medical field. The Duke Child Protection Team was the first specialized clinical team at DUMC to focus on the assessment and treatment of childhood abuse and neglect. The goal of the team was to provide medical consultation and training about the medical, social, and legal aspects of child abuse and neglect to health care professionals, establish standards for medical treatment and research, and administer the North Carolina Child Medical Evaluation program within the Duke Health system. Under Herman-Giddens' directorship DUMC's Child Protection team gained national recognition for its contributions to research and it service to children.
Other positions held by Herman-Giddens included serving as a medical consultant on child abuse cases and chairing the North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants, the American Academy of Physician Assistants, the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force, and the North Carolina Pediatric Society's Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect. She was also the medical director of the State Child Fatality Prevention Team for three years. This team is one branch of North Carolina's child fatality prevention system, which was established and codified into law under Herman-Giddens' leadership as a result of her early research into child abuse fatalities. Her later research focused on physical findings and sexually transmitted diseases in childhood sexual abuse and the decreasing age of onset of puberty for boys and girls in the United States.
For Herman-Giddens' efforts, she received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Duke University Physician Assistant Program (1987); an Appreciation Award for Contributions to Improve the Lives of Children from The North Carolina Pediatric Society (2001); a Service Award for Outstanding Indirect Service from the North Carolina Association of Public Health; Maternal and Child Health Section (1997); and a Service Award for Outstanding Service to the Health of North Carolinians from the Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society, University of North Carolina, School of Public Health (1994).
Herman-Giddens' later became an adjunct professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, and a Senior Fellow at the North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute.

Acquisition information:
Accession A2009.007 (gift by Thomas E. Frothingham, February 2009)
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Processed by Archives staff: date unknown

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Papers, 1978-2007.
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Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

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[Identification of item], Marcia Herman-Giddens Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.