ACES or Adverse Childhood Experiences is a broad term for a number of stressful and negative events that can happen in a child's life and affect them for years to come.
Well today, we are going to discuss what exactly this phrase means. We are joined by Andrew S. Garner, MD, Ph.D., FAAP, who is a pediatrician with Partners in Pediatrics in Westlake, Ohio, and is a member of the UH Rainbow Care Network, the region’s largest coordinated group of medical professionals providing care to children. He is also the Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
In this episode, Dr. Garner & Melanie Cole cover the different types of ACES, toxic stress, and the differences between ACES & trauma.
Featuring:
Andrew S. Garner, MD, Ph.D., FAAP
Andrew S. Garner, MD, Ph.D., FAAP, is a pediatrician with Partners in Pediatrics in Westlake, Ohio, and is a member of the UH Rainbow Care Network, the region’s largest coordinated group of medical professionals providing care to children. He has admitting privileges at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital and is the Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
He is board-certified in pediatrics and has been a member of the Rainbow Care Network since 2000.
Dr. Garner earned his bachelor’s degree in psychobiology from Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pa. He earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 1996 followed by a Doctor of Medicine with distinction in neuroscience from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1997. He completed a residency in pediatrics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
A national expert on early brain development and the factors affecting it, Dr. Garner has been an invited lecturer at numerous national and international pediatric professional meetings and conferences, speaking on topics such as the impact of stress and trauma on the developing brain. He also has published extensively on early brain development in pediatric medical journals and neuroscience journals. With grants from the Woodruff Foundation, a Cleveland-based foundation that supports quality mental health care services in Cuyahoga County, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Garner has worked to improve access to mental health services.
Dr. Garner is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is a Past President of the Ohio Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics He has been named a Cleveland Magazine “Best Doctor” every year since 2011.
In his leisure time Dr. Garner enjoys spending time with his family, fishing, canoeing, watching baseball and walking the family dog.
