Dr. Jennifer Canter is a board-certified, fellowship-trained, child abuse pediatrician and general pediatrician. Dr. Jennifer Canter completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Johns Hopkins University before completing her medical doctorate at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
She completed her internship and residency in Pediatrics at Montefiore / Albert Einstein and her child abuse / forensic pediatrics fellowship at Hackensack University Medical Center.
For the past eight years, Dr. Canter has been director for Child Abuse Pediatrics related activities in Westchester County , NY . This includes educational activities at New York Medical College (medical student, resident, fellowship teaching), medical leadership of the county's multidisciplinary child abuse evaluation program (The Children's Advocacy Center) and administrative / medical leadership of child abuse related issues at Westchester Medical Center.
Dr. Canter has evaluated over 4,000 children and adolescents with concerns of physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect or child fatalities. She is a well-rounded, well-regarded expert witness with extensive experience in criminal and family court proceedings. Dr. Canter has also served as an expert and/or consultant on various civil proceedings including general and child abuse related malpractice, child safety/child product usage and child supervision.
Dr. Canter lectures extensively to medical, law enforcement, child protective services and community agencies, and is one of twelve statewide mentors for the New York Child Abuse Medical Providers Network (CHAMP).
Dr. Canter is a full member of the prestigious Helfer Society for Child Abuse Pediatricians. She is director of one of two forensic pediatric fellowship programs in New York State; a three year post-residency training program just designated as a subspecialty by the American Board of Pediatrics in 2005.
Dr. Canter is engaged in several exciting research projects on topics such as the use of forensic light in the detection of bruising, the role of co-sleeping in child fatalities, shaken baby syndrome and sexual abuse.
She is co-Principal Investigator for the New York State Shaken Baby Prevention Initiative, a statewide prevention and research program providing standardized education for parents of newborns in the region on shaken baby syndrome.
Dr. Canter serves on Westchester County’s child fatality review team and is actively involved in the review and analysis of every unexpected fatality in the county. She has developed several legislative initiatives with state legislators in the areas of education funding, physical abuse reimbursement, child assault and child fatality review.
Dr. Canter was recently elected to the New York State Committee on Graduate Medical Education, a prestigious honor for senior and established medical educators.
Dr Canter’s book chapter “The Pediatric Patient” was recently published in textbook “Emergency Care of the Abused Patient” Cambridge Press.
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