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Home > Conference Calendar > 16th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect > Conference Program > Plenaries, Special Awards, and Closing Luncheon > The Ray E. Helfer, MD Award
The Ray E. Helfer, MD Award
The Ray E. Helfer, MD award is presented to highlight the valuable contributions
of a pediatrician to local and national efforts to prevent child abuse. Dr. Helfer,
a pediatrician, an educator, and a pioneer in the prevention of child abuse, is
considered the "father" of State Children's Trust and Prevention Funds. He
conceived the idea that "Children's Trust Funds" should be created and funded
by government to ensure that our nation's children grow up nurtured, safe, and
free from harm. Every year, Children's Trust Funds provide $100,000,000 in direct
funding, technical assistance, and other supports to community-based child
abuse prevention programs.
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Richard Aronson, MD, MPH
Medical Director
Maternal and Child Health
Maine Department of Health and Human Services
The National Alliance of Children's Trust
and Prevention Funds and the American
Academy of Pediatrics are pleased to present
the 2007 Ray E. Helfer, MD Award to
Dr. Richard Aronson, the Medical
Director of Maternal and Child Health for
the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. A Board-Certified pediatrician
with almost 30 years of service and leadership as a public health and
medical professional, he also serves on the Board of the Maine Children's Trust
Fund. Dr. Aronson's career includes a decade of clinical pediatric practice as a
developmental pediatrician, 14 years of Future Search facilitation, and senior
level leadership in the Vermont, Wisconsin, and Maine State Health Departments
since 1983. He has led numerous statewide efforts to prevent child abuse
in Maine, as well as held clinical faculty positions in Pediatrics at the University
of Vermont College of Medicine, the University of Wisconsin Medical School,
and the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Aronson earned his medical degree
from the University of Rochester School of Medicine in 1974, during which time
he obtained a one-year fellowship to work with malnourished children in Cali,
Colombia, and a master's degree in public health from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988.
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Award presented by:
Mary Anne Snyder
On behalf of the National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Funds and the American Academy of Pediatrics
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