Annual Scientific Meeting 2010 Speakers

Dr Danya Glayser is a consultant child & adolescent psychiatrist at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, London.  Her current work is focussing on the management of Perplexing Paediatric Presentations and Fabricated or Induced Illness.  Previously a developmental paediatrician, she has also worked in child psychiatry in the community.  Dr Glaser has had extensive clinical involvement with all aspects of child maltreatment.  She has acted frequently as an expert witness.  Dr Glaser has taught and written widely on various aspects of child maltreatment, including sexual and emotional abuse, fabricated or induced illness; and the effects of child maltreatment on the developing brain.  With her research team she is currently completing a follow up study of children who have been subject to care proceedings and has co-authored a book on the evidence base on attachment and attachment disorders.  Dr Glaser is immediate past president of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), immediate past member of the Family Justice Council and Visiting Professor at UCL and the Anna Freud Centre. 

Prof George Haycock

Sir Ian Kennedy

Dr Peter Lachman

Dr Doug Simkiss is an Associate Professor of Child Health at the University of Warwick and an honorary Consultant Community Paediatrician in South Birmingham Community Health. He has been designated Doctor for looked after children in Birmingham and Warwickshire, developing integrated care pathways for health assessments. His PhD has explored the health service use of families where children enter public care. He peer reviewed the research underpinning the 2009 DCSF guidance 'Promoting the health and wellbeing of looked after children'. He is a member of the NICE / SCIE programme development group creating guidance on promoting the quality of life for looked after children due to be published in october 2010.