Melissa L. Currie, MD, FAAP

Melissa L. Currie, MD, FAAP is Professor, Fellowship Program Director, Medical Director and Chief of the Kosair Charities Division of Pediatric Forensic Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Dr. Currie received her medical degree from University of Louisville School of Medicine and completed her residency in Pediatrics at Medical College of Wisconsin. After two years on faculty as a child abuse pediatrician at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, she returned to Louisville to join the faculty at University of Louisville School of Medicine. With the help of Kosair Charities, she began what is now the Kosair Charities Division of Pediatric Forensic Medicine in the fall of 2007, which has consulted on thousands of children in Kentucky and Southern Indiana who are suspected victims of child maltreatment. She is Board-Certified in Child Abuse Medicine (Nov 2009.) She sits on the Kentucky Child Fatality Review Panel and provides training about recognition, intervention, investigation and prosecution of child maltreatment to a wide variety of academic and professional audiences. She is a founding member of the Face It® Movement, which is a multidisciplinary community action group that is committed to ending child maltreatment in Jefferson County over the next decade.