Carole Ann Jenny

Carole Ann Jenny, M.D., M.B.A. is a Pediatrician and Child Abuse Pediatrician. She has been practicing in the field of Child Abuse Pediatrics since 1983. She is the Child Abuse Fellowship Director at Seattle Children’s Hospital and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Prior to coming to Seattle, she was a Professor of Pediatrics at Brown University School of Medicine and director of the Child Protection Program at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Jenny graduated from University of Missouri, Dartmouth Medical School and the University of Washington School of Medicine. She did her pediatric residency at the University of Colorado Affiliated Hospitals and at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, and received an MBA in Health Care from the Wharton School. She has served on the faculties of the University of Washington and the University of Colorado. Dr. Jenny is past-Chair of the Section on Child Abuse and Neglect of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and currently serves as the Chair of the Academy's Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect. Her research interests include abusive head trauma, Internet child exploitation, and medical child abuse. She is a researcher at the Biomechanics Laboratory of the Aprica Childcare Institute, Nara, Japan.