Astrid Heger
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Executive Director, Violence Intervention Program, Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center
Contact at: (323) 226-2095, (323) 226-3961 or heger@usc.edu
Expertise:
- child abuse and neglect
- evaluation and treatment of (child and adult) victims of domestic violence and sexual assault
- family violence
- adolescent violence
- violence intervention
- children in foster care
- sexual assault
- Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics
Co-editor of Evaluation of the Sexually Abused Child (1992)
Chair, Peer Review Committee, Southern California Medical Examiners
Recipient of Crime Victim Service Award from U.S. Department of Justice (1997), Governor's Award for Service to Victims of Crime (2001), Humanism in Medicine Award from the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey (2000) and Kaiser Permanente Excellence in Teaching Award for the Clinical Sciences (2000)
Listed in latest edition of The Best Doctors in America: Pacific Region
Foreign Languages:
Spanish, French and German
More:
For more information go to:
http://www.violenceinterventionprogram.org
http://www.usc.edu/hsc/info/pr/hmm/97spring/heger.html
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