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The SANE Summer Webinar Series are free, live webinars held once a month during the summer. Webinars are designed to provide evidence-based continuing education from experts on topics pertinent to forensic nursing. All members of the multidisciplinary team are welcome. Certificates of completion given upon request.
May Topic: The Sentinel and the Sign – Bruising and Infant Abuse
A sentinel injury is a medically minor, superficial injury, such as a bruise, a subconjunctival hemorrhage or mouth injury, in an infant who is not yet able to walk holding onto furniture or ‘cruise.’ All health care professionals and others who observe infants should know about sentinel injuries because doing so can be lifesaving. In this special webinar, Lynn K. Sheets, MD will utilize illustrative cases to assist SANEs/FNEs in recognizing and managing sentinel injuries in clinical settings.
Objectives:
• Summarize the meaning and significance of a “sentinel injury”
• Describe at least 3 ways to help determine if a skin finding is a bruise
• List medical testing that should be considered when a sentinel injury is detected
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Time: 1:30pm - 3:00pm
About the Speaker
Lynn K. Sheets, MD, FAAP is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and the Sue and Bud Selig Research Endowed Chair for Child Abuse Prevention at Children’s Wisconsin’s (CW). For 16 years she was the Medical Director of CW’s Child Advocacy and Protection Services (CAPS) and was instrumental in its development and growth to become one of the top child abuse programs in the nation. She was the inaugural Section Chief in the Department of Pediatrics for 11 years where she was instrumental in developing the one of the first accredited child abuse pediatrics fellowships in the nation.
Dr. Sheets completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Kansas and earned her medical degree in 1983 at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She completed her pediatric residency and Robert Wood Johnson General Academic Pediatric Fellowship at Duke University. Her career in child abuse pediatric medicine began in 1988 as the medical director of the child abuse program at the University of Kansas Medical Center where she co-founded the first Child Advocacy Center in Kansas and co-led development of a nursing and medical student elective in family violence. Dr. Sheets is board certified in pediatrics and child abuse pediatrics.
With strong interests in child abuse prevention, she chairs the Wisconsin Child Death Review Executive Council and is on the AAP Section on Child Death Review and Prevention. In 2013, she received the prestigious Ray E. Helfer MD Award from the National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds and the AAP. In 2014, the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee awarded Dr. Sheets the Equal Justice Medal for advocating for poor and vulnerable children and families. She was honored as one of the Milwaukee Business Journal's 2019 Women of Influence in the category of ‘Inspiration.’ Dr. Sheets has served as the Chair of the Child Abuse Subboard of the American Board of Pediatrics and will serve as a subboard member through December 2024. She is strongly committed to the prevention of child maltreatment, inclusive diversity in the workplace, workforce well-being, and development of trauma-sensitive approaches to improve child, family, workforce, and community resilience.
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