Resmiye Oral, MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Director, Child Protection Program

University of Iowa, Department of Pediatrics

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Resmiye Oral, MD, is a pediatrician/neonatologist. She has completed her child abuse fellowship at Ohio-State University and is currently working as the director of the Child Protection Program at the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital, at Iowa City, Iowa. She has published numerous articles in her subspecialties Neonatology and Child Abuse and Neglect.  She became involved with child abuse and neglect in 1993 and established the first multidisciplinary child abuse and neglect follow-up team in Turkey, her country of origin.  She wrote a book and three book chapters on child abuse for Turkish physicians. Dr. Oral also co-authored two training kits published by Ohio State University on physical and sexual abuse. Her interests are drug endangered children, shaken baby syndrome, and early intervention with child abuse to prevent severe and usually irreversible consequences of abuse.  She gives 50-60 lectures a year to medical and non-medical professional audiences on child abuse and neglect in Turkish or English.