Martha Coulter, DrPH, MSW is Professor of Public Health at the University of South Florida and Director of the James and Jennifer Harrell Center for the Study of Family Violence.   She received her MSW from Tulane University, her MPH from the University of California at Berkeley and her DrPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research expertise is focused in the areas of Maternal and Child Health and Family Violence with particular interest in child maltreatment and intimate partner violence. Dr. Coulter has served as primary investigator on numerous research projects in family violence, both nationally and internationally, and has numerous publications and presentations in this field.  She is co-director of a certificate program in Violence and Injury Prevention which is available both to community professionals and to graduate students desiring specialty training in this area.  

Michael Durfee MD, Child Psychiatrist has worked with child abuse/neglect since 1975. He began with foster children as their psychiatrist and then in the role of primary care physician. Most of his work is focused on the very young including preschool aged molested children and perinatal substance abuse. Most of his career has been in public health and includes creation of a network of 45 hospital based SCAN teams  in Los Angeles County. He initiated the first child death review team in 1978 and ICAN National Center for Child Fatality Review in 1986 with a web site www.ican-ncfr.org. His work with other counties, states and nations has brought the total  past 1,000 Child Death Review Teams internationally. Present work includes support for child grief and traumatic loss, quality control for infant homicide data and building the APHA Family Violence Prevention Forum.  He is married to Deanne Tilton Durfee, Executive Director of ICAN who shares this work along with children, grandchildren, nephews and nieces.

Peggy Goodman, MD is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, in Greenville, NC. She received her MS from Long Island University and MD from the University of South Alabama, Mobile.  After surgical training at the Brown Medical School Program in Surgery, she completed an Emergency Medicine Residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in NYC, and then joined the faculty at Brody School of Medicine. Interests in injury prevention and trauma led to teaching, research and advocacy at the local, state and national level in family violence prevention and intervention, including pet abuse.  She is a member of the North Carolina Domestic Violence Commission, serves on the NC state teams for the CDC VDRS and DELTA projects, is co-author of the American Medical Women's Association web-based CME course on Domestic Violence, and has numerous other publications and presentations related to family violence.

Susan M. Hadley, MPH is a pioneer in the field of health intervention for IPV. Ms. Hadley is founder/former director of WomanKind: An Integrated Model of 24-Hour Health Care Response to Domestic Violence in Minnesota. The first program of its kind in the US, WomanKind has become the gold standard for providing case-management services for victims with education/consultation for health providers. Evaluated by CDC in Atlanta, findings emphasized the efficacy of WomanKind as a struc­tured, multi-disciplinary program through the health system. A national authority, Ms. Hadley has received many awards for her work, including The Lifetime Women’s Summit, a national invitational meeting of 100 outstanding women in Wash­ington, DC. She is a member of several national advisory boards and/or consultant to CDC, AMA, MDH, MMA, NNVAWI, SWI and UM Powell Center. She was a co-author of (AMA) American Medical Association Di­agnostic and Treatment Guidelines on Domestic Abuse. Ms. Hadley is Adjunct Faculty at UM Medical School, where she teaches IPV intervention and treatment.

Patricia M. Speck, DNSc, APN, APRN-BC, SANE-A, SANE-P, DF-IAFN, FAAFS, FAAN
Dr. Speck is a graduate of the University of TN Health Science Center, College of Nursing where she is Assistant Professor and Public Health Nursing Option Coordinator. She is also a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE-A and SANE-P) that also maintains an active faculty practice as a Family Nurse Practitioner at the Methodist University Teaching Practice in Memphis, Tennessee.  As part of her public health nursing practice, Dr. Speck provides forensic nursing expertise to the Department of Justice and the National Institutes of Justice, evaluation and technical assistance for SANE/SART programs worldwide, consultation to community agencies, law enforcement and attorneys, and content expertise on behalf of victims of sexual and domestic violence in all settings across all ages. Finally, Dr. Speck volunteers in her local community to build infrastructure and capacity through formative and summative evaluative processes in organizations that serve disadvantaged populations in the Mid-South

M. Patricia West received her MSSW from University of Wisconsin.  She is a public health consultant to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health in the field of forensic epidemiology.  Her particular interests are in understanding  the multi-generational aspects of violence in the family and the long term health consequences of exposure to violence, as a child. She has worked in the field of Public Health Social Work for more than 35 years. Since 1988, she has helped build Child Death Review Teams in five states and the city of Philadelphia, and in 1997 developed a unique Women's Death Review Team for city of Philadelphia. These multidisciplinary, multi-agency teams share confidential information in the search for preventing premature deaths, and in the belief that aggregate data created by this process should be the foundation of both program development and policy/regulatory/legislative change.  In addition to helping build the American Public Health Association Family Violence Prevention Forum, she is active in the College of Physicians of Philadelphia Section on Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Public Citizens for Children and Youth, Pennsylvania Attorney's General Medical/Legal Advisory Board on Child Abuse, National MCH Center on Child Death Review, and Women Donors Network.  She is married to Thomas Vernon, MD and enjoys 4 grandchildren.