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The Child Fatality Review Teams of Madison, Onondaga, and Oswego Counties are pleased to announce a regional collaboration to bring you a nationally renowned training close to home!

Dr. Wendy Gunther, Forensic Pathologist, and Dr. Suzanne Starling, Child Abuse Pediatrician, have given their conjoint training across the country to many Child Fatality and Child Abuse MultiDisciplinary Teams. Their style of case studies coupled with forensic science leaves the audience with informative lessons that will significantly impact your work.

Please join us for this FREE training! Breakfast and snack is also included (Lunch is on your own). Register today before all of the slots are gone!

Bios of these wonderful presenters:

Dr. Wendy M. Gunther is a forensic pathologist and assistant chief medical examiner in the Tidewater District of the Commonwealth of Virginia, where she has been employed since March, 2002. She trained for two years in general surgery in the 1980s before switching to anatomic and clinical pathology. During her pathology residency she had lengthy exposure to pediatric pathology that allowed her to sit for the board examination without formal fellowship training. Dr Gunther then trained as a fellow in forensic pathology at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Manhattan, NYC. She is now board certified in anatomic, clinical, forensic, and pediatric pathology. At her first job in Memphis, TN, she was named the director of the hospital autopsy service as well as serving as an assistant forensic pathologist from 1995 to 2000. She worked as a forensic pathologist in Washington, DC from 2000 to 2002, and has now spent more than fifteen years as an assistant chief medical examiner in Virginia. She is the author of numerous abstracts, and has contributed to two books on pediatric pathology. Dr Gunther frequently lectures to audiences on forensic pathology, has won awards for teaching, and enjoys teaching students as well as investigative colleagues in law enforcement, the law, and medicine. She is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the British Association in Forensic Medicine, and the National Association of Medical Examiners. She is married to an aikido instructor, and has lived in Norfolk, VA, for sixteen years. She has performed close to 5,000 autopsies, many of them on infants. She has lost count of how many times she has testified as an expert witness in forensic pathology.

Dr. Suzanne Starling is the Medical Director and Associate Center Director of the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California San Diego. She was the Medical Director of the Child Abuse Program at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk VA before relocating to San Diego in 2017. Dr. Starling is a board certified Child Abuse Pediatrician and has spent her career collaborating with investigators and attorneys to improve the investigation and prosecution of child abuse, regularly providing expert medical testimony in child abuse cases. Dr. Starling also lectures nationally and internationally for medical, investigative, and legal audiences. Dr. Starling has served as a leader in Child Abuse Pediatrics for many years. She helped shape the direction of the field as a past chair of the American Board of Pediatrics’ subboard on Child Abuse Pediatrics. Dr. Starling has authored more than 40 journal articles and book chapters in the field, as well as edited the well-respected textbook Medical Response to Child Sexual Abuse. She is a charter member of the Helfer Society, an honorary society for physician specialists in child abuse.