Dr.
Kent P. Hymel is a board certified Child Abuse Pediatrician and Professor of
Pediatrics at Penn State College of Medicine.
He has directed child abuse programs for the U.S. Air Force and at
multiple U.S. academic medical centers. He is a past member of the American
Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, and serves as
Medical Editor for the Subboard in Child Abuse Pediatrics of the American Board
of Pediatrics. Dr. Hymel founded and
directs the Pediatric Brain Injury Research Network, which has derived and
validated an effective screening tool for pediatric abusive head trauma.