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Dr Jamie Carter

Dr Jamie Carter (MBBS, BSc, DTM & H, FRCPCH)

Deputy Lead Module 101 & Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
E: J.Carter2@bsms.ac.uk

Areas of expertise: Safeguarding & Child Death; Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder; Developmental Trauma and child abuse/protection, Abusive Head Trauma; Child sexual abuse and Forensic medical examination.

Biography

Jamie Carter is a Consultant Paediatrician, Designated Doctor for Safeguarding & Designated Paediatrician for Child Deaths in Sussex who has worked in Paediatrics for the last 19 years. He held the post of Assistant Child Protection Officer for the RCPCH until December 2018 which involved developing and delivering a safeguarding curriculum and various safeguarding courses & conferences, including the Forensic Sexual Assault Best practice course. He is a member of the ACDRP.

Jamie has developed and delivered a variety of training and courses/conferences to multi-agency and single agency groups as well as simulation training in child death and child protection.

He has worked as a Consultant Paediatrician in the NHS for the last 12 years in neurodevelopmental paediatrics and has a specialist interests in FASD, abusive head trauma, child sexual abuse and developmental trauma in children.

Jamie completed a Fellowship in the Child Protection Unit at Sydney Children's Hospital, Australia, is trained in the forensic assessment of children who have been suspected of being sexually abused and acts as an expert witness for sexual abuse in boys.

Selected publications

Paediatricians as expert witnesses in the family court in England and Wales: standards, competencies and expectations. Guidance from the family justice council and the College of paediatrics and child health. August 2018

2020: Archives of Diseases in Childhood; Opening doors: suggested practice for medical professionals for when a child might be close to telling about abuse. Ruth Marchant, Jamie Carter, Charlie Fairhurst.

RCPCH Working Group on FII/Perplexing Presentations guidance. 2021

In press:

RCPCH Physical Signs of Child Sexual Abuse

International Consensus on the radiological screening of contact children in the context of suspected physical abuse, Lancet