David Corwin

{{Short description|American psychiatrist}} {{multiple issues| {{COI|date=August 2012}} {{BLP primary sources|date=May 2012}} }} '''David L. Corwin''' is a board-certified psychiatrist, child and adolescent psychiatrist, and forensic psychiatrist.<ref name=sandiego>{{cite web |url= http://www.sandiegoconference.org/Program/faculty.html#corwind |title= San Diego International Conference |access-date= 2012-05-24 |archive-date= 2012-07-13 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120713041820/http://www.sandiegoconference.org/Program/faculty.html#corwind |url-status= dead }}</ref> Corwin has done extensive work into the long-term impact of child violence and abuse on health, and has promoted family support and treatment programs.<ref name=healthcare>{{cite web |url= http://healthcare.utah.edu/fad/mddetail.php?physicianID=FM00002390|title= Find a Physician |publisher= University of Utah Health Care}}</ref> Corwin has worked as a consultant, a lecturer, a trainer, and an evaluator of suspected or known child sexual abuse cases throughout many countries, as well as serving as an expert witness of child sexual abuse cases.<ref name=sandiego/><ref name=healthcare/> Corwin has founded, directed or chaired groups that serve to advance prevention and protection against child violence and abuse, as well as furthering the education and research of the impact of child abuse.<ref name=healthcare/><ref name=acestoohigh>{{cite web |url= http://acesconnection.com/profiles/blogs/who-i-am-and-who-s-that-cute-little-girl-on-my-arm |title= Who I am and who's that cute little girl on my arm? |last= Corwin |first= David |date= January 5, 2012 |access-date= January 9, 2014 |archive-date= January 9, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140109184837/http://acesconnection.com/profiles/blogs/who-i-am-and-who-s-that-cute-little-girl-on-my-arm |url-status= dead }}</ref>

==Biography==

===Education=== Corwin received a B.S degree at the University of Michigan, followed by receiving an M.D. at the Michigan State College of Human Medicine.<ref name=healthcare/> Corwin completed an internship in psychiatry and internal medicine and then a psychiatry residency at UCLA-VA Medical Center.<ref name=healthcare/> Corwin completed a fellowship in child psychiatry at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, and then certificates in executive leadership, advanced training in continuous quality improvement and conflict resolution at the University of Utah and Intermountain Healthcare.<ref name=healthcare/>

===Career=== Corwin inspired and chaired the National Summit Conference meeting in Los Angeles in 1985 about how to diagnose child sexual abuse.<ref name=acestoohigh/> A consequence of the conference was the formation of the group that founded the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) in 1986 which Corwin chaired and later served as a member of APSAC's BOD.<ref name=sandiego/><ref name=acestoohigh/> In the same year that he chaired the organizing committee for APSAC, Corwin founded the California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (CAPSAC).<ref name=sandiego/> The aim of APSAC is to promote the best possible professional response for children and families at risk of maltreatment<ref name=apsac>{{cite web |url= http://www.apsac.org/apsac-publications |title= American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children |publisher= APSAC publications }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> APSAC regularly publishes the newsletter ''APSAC Advisor'' and the journal ''Child Maltreatment'' which inform professionals in a range of disciplines about the latest policies, research findings, and up to date information on child maltreatment.<ref name=apsac/> Corwin was awarded Outstanding Service in 1993 and Outstanding Professional of the Year in 2007 by APSAC.<ref name=sandiego/>

Corwin co-directed the UCLA Family Support Program for treatment of intra-familial child sexual abuse from 1980 to 1982. During his time at UCLA, he initiated and chaired the Los Angeles Task Force on interviewing sexually abused children which was the first to recommend nationally and internationally (Washington D.C. and Paris, 1982) the video recording of investigative and evaluative interviews with children in possible sexual abuse cases. Starting in 1999 he served as medical director of Primary Children's Medical Center's Safe and Healthy Families Department and later Chief of the Pediatrics Child Protection Division until August 1, 2012.<ref name=acestoohigh/> Corwin has served as an expert witness and evaluated, trained, consulted and lectured on suspected or known cases of child sexual abuse throughout many countries and regions over the last 30 years, including Thailand, Canada, the United States, Europe, Israel, South Korea, and Great Britain.<ref name=healthcare/><ref name=acestoohigh/>

Corwin served as liaison for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,<ref name=healthcare/> from 2001 to 2009 to<ref name=sandiego/> the AMA's National Advisory Council on Violence and Abuse of which he was its last Steering Committee Chair and oversaw its transformation,<ref name=acestoohigh/> into the National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse for which he served as the first chair.<ref name=sandiego/>

Corwin also helped found and serves as president for the Academy on Violence and Abuse from 2013 to 2015,<ref name=healthcare/><ref name=avahealth>{{cite web |url=http://www.avahealth.org/index.asp?Type=B_DIR&SEC=%7BD3ADFCEA-DCEA-449F-B21D-29C440362899%7D&DE=%7BD2DDC52B-2586-49C5-A0D7-D8DA0A82FBD8%7D |title=Advancing Health Education and Research |publisher=AVA Academy on Violence and Abuse }}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> which is an interprofessional international membership society that promotes research and education about the health effects of violence and abuse.<ref name=sandiego/> Corwin is also a founder of the Helfer Society,<ref name=healthcare/> which is named after one of his first faculty preceptors at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Ray E. Helfer, MD.<ref name=acestoohigh/> The Helfer Society is an honorary society for physicians who focus their work on child abuse.<ref name=sandiego/> Corwin was chosen as a national leading child abuse physician in 2006 and invited to join the Whitworth Seniors Forum,<ref name=sandiego/> a small group of physician leaders focusing on child abuse policy. The Child Abuse Research Education and Services (CARES) Network is a proposal to establish a nationwide network of consortia of excellence dedicated to training, research and improving the ability of the healthcare system to identify, treat and prevent child abuse.<ref name=avahealth/> The CARES Network, conceived and promoted by Drs. Randall Alexander, John Stirling and Corwin was endorsed by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions but to this dated never funded by Congress.

Corwin currently works as a professor and director of forensic services for the Pediatrics Department at the University of Utah. He has a continuing interest in improving services and awareness about the adverse health impacts of violence and abuse across the lifespan. Corwin also continues to serve as an expert witness, consultant and forensic evaluator.<ref name=healthcare/><ref name=acestoohigh/> He has produced three DVDs including the 2012 Academy on Violence and Abuse DVD featuring Drs. Felitti, Anda and Putnam.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Krugman |first1=Richard D. |title=The ACE Study |journal=JAMA |date=15 August 2012 |volume=308 |issue=7 |pages=718 |doi=10.1001/jama.308.7.718}}</ref>

==The Jane Doe case== {{Main|Jane Doe case}} In 1997 Corwin published an article in the journal ''Child Maltreatment'' about "Jane Doe"; a young girl who in 1984 along with her parents were referred to Corwin for a court-appointed forensic evaluation, as mutually agreed by all parties involved in family court litigation regarding custody and visitation, after she disclosed that she had been sexually abused by her mother after the parents separated.<ref name=Olafson>{{cite journal |year=1997 |author1=Olafson, E. |author2=Corwin, D. L. |title=Videotaped discovery of a reportedly unrecallable memory of child sexual abuse: Comparison with a childhood interview videotaped 11 years before. |journal=Child Maltreatment |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=91–112 |doi=10.1177/1077559597002002001|title-link=memory |s2cid=143444117 }}</ref> Corwin videotaped his interviews with Jane, then five and six years old, the third and last interview of which a verbatim transcript, history, and discussion of the case are documented in the 1997 publication.<ref name="Olafson"/> Corwin had previously concluded that Jane had been sexually abused by her mother, and her father was granted custody rights while the mother eventually lost even the right to visitation.<ref name=Loftus>{{cite journal |year= 2002 |author1=Loftus, E. F. |author2=Guyer, M. J. |title= Who abused jane doe? The hazards of the single case history, part one |journal= Skeptical Inquirer}}</ref> Ten years after the court-appointed and video recorded evaluation, Jane was contacted again by Corwin to reaffirm her assent for his use of the earlier video recorded interview for professional education and she requested to view her forensic evaluation interviews to help her remember what she had told Corwin, since she could not remember the experiences she earlier described.<ref name="Olafson"/> A year later, after her father's death, Corwin met with Jane and videotaped the informed consent with Jane prior to showing her the earlier video recorded interviews. Jane was 17 years old at that time.<ref name="Olafson"/> During the videotaped informed consent, Jane appears to recall the memory of sexual abuse, but also described events for which there was no previous documentation.<ref name="Olafson"/> Five commentaries<ref name=Ekman>{{cite journal |year= 1997 |author= Ekman, P. |title= Expressive behaviour and the recovery of a traumatic memory: Comments on the videotapes of jane doe |journal=Child Maltreatment |volume=2 |issue= 2 |pages=91–112|doi= 10.1177/1077559597002002002 |s2cid= 144434188 }}</ref><ref name=Neisser>{{cite journal |year=1997 |author= Neisser, U. |title= Jane doe's memories: Changing the past to serve the present |journal=Child Maltreatment |volume=2 |issue= 2 |pages=91–112|doi= 10.1177/1077559597002002005 |s2cid= 144924153 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |year= 1997 |author= Lindsay, D. S. |title= Jane doe in context: Sex abuse, lives and videotapes |journal=Child Maltreatment |volume=2 |issue= 3 |pages=91–112|doi= 10.1177/1077559597002003001 |s2cid= 145227558 }}</ref><ref name=Putnam>{{cite journal |year= 1997 |author= Putnam, F. W. |title= Commentary |journal=Child Maltreatment |volume=2 |issue= 2 |pages=91–112|doi= 10.1177/1077559597002002003 |s2cid= 220341426 }}</ref><ref name=Schooler>{{cite journal |year= 1997 |author= Schooler, J. W. |title= Reflections on a memory discovery |journal=Child Maltreatment |volume=2 |issue= 2 |pages=91–112|doi= 10.1177/1077559597002002006 |s2cid= 145694407 }}</ref> follow Corwin's 1997 article,<ref name="Olafson"/> which discuss various aspects of the Jane Doe case such as Jane's expressive behaviour during her interviews<ref name="Ekman"/> and implications of the recollection of the abuse that Jane previously hadn't remembered.<ref name="Neisser"/> Although some researchers hailed Jane's recollection as an example of "repressed memory",<ref name="Putnam"/><ref name="Schooler"/> Elizabeth Loftus was sceptical about the truth surrounding the alleged abuse and investigated Jane Doe's case, concluding that Jane had never been abused by the mother.<ref name=Guyer>{{cite journal |year= 2002 |author1=Loftus, E. F. |author2=Guyer, M. J. |title= Who abused jane doe? The hazards of the single case history, part two |journal= Skeptical Inquirer}}</ref> Jane Doe, who then revealed herself as Nicole Taus, sued Loftus and lengthy litigation took place.<ref name="Loftus"/>

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