Clinical Focus


  • Pediatrics

Academic Appointments


  • Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Professional Education


  • Board Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, Child Abuse Pediatrics (2011)
  • Fellowship: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Child Abuse Pediatric Fellowship (2010) CA
  • Residency: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Pediatric Residency (2008) CA
  • Board Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatrics (2007)
  • Medical Education: Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine (2004) IL

All Publications


  • Medical Child Abuse: A Review by Subspecialty. Advances in pediatrics Egge, M. K. 2023; 70 (1): 59-80

    Abstract

    Medical child abuse (MCA), formerly called Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSP or MSBP), occurs when a caregiver, usually the mother, falsifies or exaggerates symptoms resulting in harm to a child through inappropriate medical care. MCA is underrecognized, underreported, and results in significant morbidity and mortality. Pediatrics subspecialists should consider MCA when unusual disease presentation [THAT] do not respond to traditional treatments. This article reviews the more common diagnoses encountered in MCA cases by specialty.

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.yapd.2023.03.005

    View details for PubMedID 37422298