"This fall’s NYC Abusive Head Trauma/Shaken Baby Syndrome Conference,
sponsored jointly by the Queens County District Attorney’s Office and
the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, will feature
some of the most outspoken proponents of shaken baby theory but also a
few of the skeptics..........Past Queens conferences have featured roundtable discussions that
included critics as well as proponents of shaken baby theory, but this
year’s schedule lists two full presentations from skeptics, one by
attorneys Keith Findley of the Wisconsin Innocence Project and Adele
Bernhard of the Post-Conviction Innocence Clinic, and one by pathologist
Patrick Lantz, who has criticized the child abuse literature for
adopting guidelines about retinal findings without objective scientific
evidence. Attorneys Findley and Bernhard will be giving the Innocence Network
perspective on appeals in infant head trauma cases—Findley spearheaded
the appeal that freed child care provider Audrey Edmunds in 2008, and Bernhard argued last year at the successful hearing on behalf of care provider René Bailey. ........Dr.
Lantz, a pathology professor at Wake Forest Baptist Health in North
Carolina, is one of two speakers at the Queens conference scheduled
to talk about retinal hemorrhages. The other is ophthalmology
professor Brian J. Forbes at the University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine. In 2004, Dr. Lantz published a case study and critical literature review in the BMJ that
cautioned against relying on retinal findings when diagnosing abuse. He
has since encouraged pathologists to gather more data by capturing retinal images in all child deaths, whether or not abuse is suspected."
http://onsbs.com/2015/08/14/queens-head-injury-conference-opens-the-door-a-little-wider/