As people have joined the network, I've asked them to provide some information about their interest in ACEs. Here are three: Hélène Felitti, Laura Kerr and Gary Giovino. For sake of brevity, the responses are shortened. There's a link to their page so that you can read more.
Hélène Felitti worked as a psychologist 12 years ago with adult obese people who were undergoing gastroplasty, but "I am now a happy full time mother of 4 kids, ranging from 8 to 2 years old" and lives in France. She loves the title "Scared Sick" -- the book on child trauma that was published this week, but "I must admit that dealing too directly with the subject makes me very unconfortable now that my own children are still kids..."
Laura Kerr, a researcher and psychotherapist, thinks she first heard about the ACE study in 2005. She saw it as "a missing link--the research that identified a connection between troubled or challenging childhoods with later life problems." She thinks that awareness of ACEs has "the potential to radically improve mental and physical health care."
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