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Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens Edit Profile

Physician associate

Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens, American Physician associate. Achievements include research on child fatality in North Carolina that assisted with the formation of legislatively appointed task force, research on child sexual abuse, research on onset of puberty in younggirls in the United States.

Background

Herman-Giddens, Marcia Edwina was born on September 17, 1941 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Edwin Parker and Lucy Marshall (Price) Herman.

Education

B.Health Science, Duke U., 1978; Master in Public Health, U. North Carolina, 1985; Doctor of Public Health, U. North Carolina, 1994.

Career

Laboratory technician, U. Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham, 1962-1964; research assistant in genetics, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1968-1969; executive director, North Carolina Women's Political Caucus, Chapel Hill, 1972-1973; senior physician associate, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1979-1981; assistant clinical professor pediatrics, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1983-1994; assistant director pediatric clinics, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1979-1989; assistant clinical professor community and family medicine, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1984-1988; director child protection team, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1986-1989; director injury research, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1994-1995; adjunct associate professor, U. North Carolina School Public Health, Chapel Hill, since 1995. Medical director North Carolina State Child Fatality Prevention Team, Office Chief Medical Examiners, since 1995. Medical consultant Program on Childhood Trauma and Maltreatment, Chapel Hill, since 1993.

Achievements

  • Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens has been listed as a noteworthy Physician associate by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Chair medical committee North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force, Raleigh, 1991-1993. Member, 1991-1995; member Board Adjustment, Town of Chapel Hill, 1980-1985. Chair Chapel Hill Cooperative Preschool, 1969-1971.

Board directors Planned Parenthood, Orange and Durham Counties, North Carolina, 1989-1995. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, APHA (Outstanding Indirect Svc. award 1997), American Academy Physician Assistant, American Professional Society on Abuse of Children, Ambulatory Pediatric Association, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married G. Scott Giddens, September 17, 1960. Children: Gregory, Marcus, Melantha, Huong. Married Douglas G. Berg, November 8, 1997.

Father:
Edwin Parker Herman

Mother:
Lucy Marshall (Price) Herman

Spouse:
G. Scott Giddens

Spouse:
Douglas G. Berg

child:
Marcus Herman-Giddens

child:
Melantha Herman-Giddens

child:
Gregory Herman-Giddens

child:
Huong Herman-Giddens