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2018 NECLP, Inc. Conference Speaker Information
Keynote: Smartphones
and Snapchat and Sexting, Oh My! Interactive Screen Media and T(w)een Mental Health
Michael Rich, MD, MPH, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Michael Rich, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical
School, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health, and practices Adolescent
Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. He is the Founder and Director of the Center on Media and Child Health (CMCH)
as well as a pediatrician, researcher, father, and media aficionado. As The Mediatrician®, Dr. Rich offers research-based
answers parents’, teachers’, and clinicians’ questions about children’s media use and implications
for their health and development. Dr. Rich came to medicine after a 12-year career as a filmmaker (including serving
as assistant director to Akira Kurosawa on Kagemusha). His current areas of health
research and clinical work bring together his experience and expertise in medicine and media. As a researcher, Dr. Rich is
the Principal Investigator of the Manchester Media Study and was honored by the Society for Adolescent Medicine with
their New Investigator Award in 1998 for developing a media-based research methodology, Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment
(VIA). From his perspective as a clinician and researcher, Dr. Rich has authored or co-authored four policy
statements on media and child health for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and has written and presented testimony
on media and child health to a variety of legislative bodies ranging from the Chicago City Council to U.S. Congress. He has
received the AAP Holroyd-Sherry Award for contributions to knowledge and policy addressing children’s and adolescents’
use of media, served as the AAP’s Media Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, received the Peace Islands
Institute Media Award for excellence in the field, the Family Online Safety Institute Award for outstanding achievement, and
is the 2017 Litt Visiting Professor of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Cognizant of the potency
of the image and of the primacy of electronic and print media as a source of information and influence, Dr. Rich studies media
as a force that powerfully affects child health and behavior and uses media as a tool for medical research, education, health
care policy, and patient empowerment.
Session
1A: Helping Children Navigate a Child Abuse Investigation
Vanessa Finnerty, MS, CCLS, Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, New Haven, CT
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Vanessa Finnerty is an American who grew up and went to school abroad, returning to the USA for college. It was during her time abroad that she first met a child life specialist during a volunteer mission with Operation Smile. She is a graduate of Wheaton College, with a Bachelor’s degree in psychology, and a Master's degree in child life from Bank Street College of Education. She has worked with patients and their families at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, with their burn center, craniofacial department, neurosurgery, CPAP clinic at their sleep center, and primary care center. She now works at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital in their Child Abuse Clinic. Vanessa is a career changer, having worked in advertising for 7 years after graduating from Wheaton College, while volunteering at NYU Langone Health their Emergency Rooms and Pediatric Rehab units. It was then that she decided to go back to school to get her Master's in child life.
Session
1B: Caregiver Wellness Program: A Look at Maximizing Family Centered Care
Leah Terrill, MEd, CCLS, CTRS, Spaulding
Rehabilitation Hospital, Charlestown, MA
Leah
Terrill, CCLS, CTRS, is a Child Life Specialist and Recreation Therapist who received her Master's degree from Springfield
College in 2015. She currently practices as a Child Life Specialist at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital for the 12-bed inpatient
pediatric program where she has been since 2016. Her experience in rehabilitation, palliative care, and oncology has lent
itself to a passion for wellness of the whole family. At Spaulding Leah is a member of the family centered care taskforce
bringing this to the forefront of hospital culture. Leah is also a certified Reiki II practitioner and has a strong interest
in integrative medicine and wellness, and increasing its accessibility to families she serves.Claire Wilms, MS, LICSW, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Charlestown, MA
Claire Wilms, LICSW is
currently serving as the social worker for Spaulding's Pediatric and Spinal Cord Injury Units. She graduated from Boston College
Graduate School of Social Work in 2014 with an emphasis in Children, Youth, and Families. Her passion for understanding and
encouraging post-traumatic growth grew from a global perspective initially when she worked in Tanzania's Gabriella Montessori
School, educating and advocating for marginalized children with special needs. Since then, she has studied the effects of
complex and acute trauma throughout Israel, focusing on advanced treatment modalities to stunt the effects of PTSD and promote
resilience, a framework she uses regularly in her work with caregivers.
Session 2A: Child Life Collaboration with DCF and Involuntary Removal
Caelin Mooney, MS, CCLS, Baystate Children’s Hospital, Springfield, MA
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Caelin Mooney graduated from Wheelock College with her Master’s in Child Life and Family Centered Care in 2016. She began her career working in Early Intervention for children on the autism spectrum delivering in home Applied Behavioral Analysis. Her child life career began in October of 2016 at Baystate Children’s Hospital, and she had also spent some time at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Springfield. She has recently transitioned to a full time position on the inpatient unit at Baystate where she has taken an interest in non-accidental trauma. Caelin recognized improvements that could be made in current practice, which has fueled her research and passion for caring for this specific population.
Deborah Levine, MSW, LICSW, Baystate Children's
Hospital, Springfield, MA
Deborah Levine
MSW, LICSW has been a social worker at Baystate Medical Center for 28 years. She has worked primarily in the areas of maternal
child health and child protection. Currently she is the Social Worker for the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Infants and
Children’s Unit. She particularly enjoys working with Child Life Specialists within a multidisciplinary team approach.
Session 2B: Full Steam Ahead: Building Partnerships Between Museums and Healthcare
Institutions
Alice Garfield, MAT, Artful Healing
Coordinator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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Times} Alice Garfield received her undergraduate from Pomona College and went on to earn her Master’s degree in
Art Education from Tufts University/SMFA. Alice is the Artful Healing Coordinator at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, running
day-to-day operations of the Artful Healing program. MFA Artful Healing is a community arts program through which MFA arts
instructors visit local Boston healthcare facilities and hospitals. Alice collaborates with healthcare professionals from
medical institutions including Boston Children’s Hospital, MGH, and Dana-Farber to bring the MFA’s world-renowned
collection—and a little messy art-making joy—to patients and families.
Kirsten Getchell, MS, CCLS, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
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12.0px Times} Kirsten Getchell graduated from Wheelock College with an undergraduate degree in Human Development with a Concentration
in Child Life and then went on to get her Master’s degree in Family Centered Care. In 2002, Kirsten started her career as a Child
Life Specialist on the Infant/Toddler Surgical Unit and Solid Organ Transplant Unit and after 14 years, Kirsten transitioned
into another role, acting as the Child Life Specialist for Trust, Marketing, and Special Events. Throughout the past 16 years
at Boston Children’s, Kirsten was promoted to Level II and then Level III Child Life Specialist, participated on several
hospital wide committees such as the Pain Committee and Memorial Service, and co-facilitated numerous support groups. In addition, Kirsten
has presented at numerous conferences nationally (ACLP, Surgical Nurses Association) and internationally (Pediatric Transplant
Association- Turkey, Poland, and Montreal). Kirsten was most recently promoted to
a Child Life Clinical and Program Manager – supervising over 15 staff members including child life, music therapy, artist
in residence, and more.
Laurel Anderson, MS,
CCLS, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
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12.0px Times} Laurel Anderson is a certified child life specialist on the inpatient orthopedic/surgical unit at Boston Children’s
Hospital. Laurel received her undergraduate degree in Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and earned her
Master’s degree in Child Life and Family Centered Care at Wheelock College. She has been a part of the growing child
life team at BCH for over ten years, working in cardiology, hematology/oncology and surgical programs. As a child life specialist,
she seeks to enhance patients’ emotional, social and cognitive growth during hospital admissions through preparation,
education, coping support and medical play. Laurel brings an important understanding of child development and serves as a
part of the multidisciplinary medical team, providing consultation and support before and after medical procedures, helping
children cope with fear and anxiety, and, most importantly, providing “cheer” and a sense of normalcy to the many
patients and families on her unit.
Janna Doherty,
MA, Early Childhood Program Manager, Museum of Science, Boston, MA
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0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Times} Janna Doherty is the Early Childhood Education Program Manager at the Museum
of Science in Boston. Drawing from her background in visual arts and science education, she designs hands-on programming for
children 0-8 and their caregivers. Janna develops training in informal education techniques as well as workshops around child
development and best practices for teaching young children. She has presented on these topics at regional and national conferences.
Inspired from her previous work with the pediatric population, Janna co-created the Museum of Science STEAM Team to bring
museum experiences to children at their neighboring hospital, Mass. General. Presenter received her B.A. in Visual and Media
Arts from Emerson College and her M.A. in Museum Education from Tufts University.
Plenary:
Courageous Parents Network: Accompanying You Accompanying Families of Seriously Ill Children
Blyth Lord, EdM, Newton, MA
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caring for children with serious illness, including the promotion of pediatric palliative care. Blyth's daughter, Cameron,
died of Tay-Sachs disease in 2001. Blyth is also co-chair of the of the AAP’s Section on Hospice and Palliative Medicine’s
Parent Advisory Group. Prior to founding Courageous Parents Network, Blyth worked for over 20 years experience as a television
producer, including at WGBH in Boston, And ABC News in Washington, and she produced the award-winning film, Cameron’s Arc, with the American Academy of Pediatrics to educate doctors
in working with families from the time of diagnosis through to the end-of-life. Blyth received her BA in History from Yale
College, has a Masters in Education from Harvard, and lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two daughters.
Kerri Padgett, LMT, CPMT, Newton, MA
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