Kyoto, Japan

On June 19, 2006, The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome hosted a day-long symposium in Kyoto, Japan. This syposium is held to discuss Infant Crying as a Trigger for Shaken Baby Syndrome: A Tragic Deviation in Infant Development.

This symposium is in conjunction with the International Society on Infant Studies Conference held June 20-23 2006 in Kyoto, Japan. The ISIS Conference has resulted in an exceptional opportunity to offer a unique one-day pre-conferennce on shaken baby syndrome resulting from inappropriate responses to normal infant crying and behavior. The faculty was comprised of leading scholars in this field and was available for discussion and debate on this preventable developmental tragedy.

Faculty

Carole Jenny, MD MBA, Professor of Pediatrics at Brown University School of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, Director, Child Protection Program at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island. Animals, Crash Test Dummies, Computer Models and Human Infants, Making Sense of Biomechanical Controversies in SBS

Alexander R. Judkins, M.D., Neuropathologist ,Director of Pathology Core Laboratory Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Neuropathology and Differential Diagnosis of Inflicted Neurotrauma in Infancy Alex V. Levin, M.D., MHSc, FAAP, FAAO, FRCSC, Hospital for The Sick Children, Toronto, Staff Ophthalmologist and SCAN Paediatrician. Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Genetics, Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto. Retinal Haemorrhages: What have we learned?

Robert M. Reece, MD, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine, Executive Editor, The Quarterly Update Review of the Most Significant Articles of 2004-2005 on inflicted Childhood Neurotrauma (SBS)

Ronald Barr MA, MDCM, FRCP(C) Canada Research Chair in Community Child Health Research, Professor of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine UBC, Director, Centre for Community Child Health Research at the BC Research Institute for Children’s and Women’s Health. Infant Crying and Shaken Baby Syndrome: The Period of PURPLE Crying

David Chadwick, MD Director Emeritus, Chadwick Center for Children and Families, Children's Hospital-San Diego Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University. The Effects of the Shaking of Infants: Visible, Obscure, Radiating and Invisible Harm

Dr. Hiroaki Nagase, Department of Pediatric Neurology, Kobe Children Hospital ,Takakuradai, Suma-ku, Kobe, Japan Traumatic Brain Injury (SBS) in Japan