Dr. David Corwin
Dr. Corwin is a Professor at the University of Utah Pediatrics Department and the Immediate Past President of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC). He moved to Utah in 1999 to become Medical Director of Primary Children’s Child Protection Team, now Primary Children’s Center for Safe and Healthy Families. He also served as the first Chief of the Pediatrics’ Division of Child Protection and Family Health from its founding in 2001. In 2012, he left Primary Children’s and became Director of Forensic Services for the Pediatrics Department.
Since 1986, Dr. Corwin has helped found five professional societies addressing child maltreatment and interpersonal violence including the California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (CAPSAC, 1986), APSAC (1986), the Ray Helfer Society (1999), the Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA, 2005) and the National Health Collaborative on the Violence and Abuse (NHCVA, 2009). Dr. Corwin’s video productions address childhood trauma and maltreatment and include the AVA’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study DVD (2012). He initiated and oversees the AVA/NHCVA “ACEs: Informing Best Practices” (2015) available at www.avahealth.org. As AVA’s President (2013-2015), he introduced the AVA to South Korea, Hong Kong, and China. In 2014, Dr. Corwin helped form Utah’s Trauma-Resiliency Collaborative and joined Utah’s Coalition for Protecting Childhood. He proposed and helped to organize the 2017 National Summit to End Corporal Punishment in the USA, which was co-sponsored and funded by NY Foundling’s Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection in collaboration with the National Alliance to End the Hitting of Children and APSAC. His last act as President of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children in June 2020 was to successfully propose that APSAC make an ongoing commitment to eliminating systemic racism and implicit bias in child maltreatment work. Dr. Corwin consults, evaluates, and testifies on child maltreatment and childhood trauma cases throughout the USA and has lectured throughout the world.
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