 Marcia E. Herman-Giddens, PA, MPH, DrPH Senior Fellow, NC Child Advocacy Institute
Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health
Department of Maternal and Child Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Class 1978
Induction: 2002 Marcia E. Herman-Giddens is a graduate of Duke University (BHS,
1978) and the University of North Carolina (MPH, 1985; and DrPH,
1994). After graduation from the PA Program, Dr. Herman-Giddens
practiced pediatrics at the Duke University Medical Center (DUMC)
for five years, and then served on the faculty in the Department
of Pediatrics for elevan years and in the Department of Community
and Family Medicine for four years. During this time, she directed
DUMC's Child Protection Team, leading it to national recognition
both for its contribution to research as well as its service to
children. Dr. Herman-Giddens has served on or chaired numerous committees,
advisory boards, and task forces including those of the North Carolina
Academy of Physician Assistants, the American Academy of Physician
Assistants, the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force, the NC
Pediatric Society's Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, and many
others. She has been a medical consultant on child abuse issues
for state and private service providers. Her research in the late
1980's on child abuse fatalities was instrumental in leading to
the establishment of North Carolina's child fatality prevention
system, now codified in law. For three years she was the medical
director of the State Child Fatality Prevention Team, one branch
of this system. She is also known for her publications on physical
findings and sexually transmitted diseases in child sexual abuse,
which helped to increase knowledge and change attitudes about the
actual manifestations of abuse in children. Most recently, she is
known for her research on the age of onset of puberty in boys and
girls in the United States and examination of the possible reasons
for the decline in age. Often called on to present her work nationally
and internationally, she continues to be a child advocate, teacher
and researcher, teaching child abuse and child development at the
School of Public Health and as a Senior Fellow with the North Carolina
Child Advocacy Institute in Raleigh. Among her awards, Dr. Herman-Giddens received the Distinguished
Alumnus Award from the Duke University Physician Assistant Program
(1987), an Appreciation Award for Contributions to Improve the Lives
of Children from The North Carolina Pediatric Society (2001), a
Service Award for Outstanding Indirect Service from the North Carolina
Association of Public Health, Maternal and Child Health Section
(1997), and a Service Award for Outstanding Service to the Health
of North Carolinians from the Delta Omega Honorary Public Health
Society, University of North Carolina, School of Public Health (1994). < < < Back
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