Dr. Deutsch serves as the medical director of the hospital-based Nemours Children’s Health CARE (Children at Risk Evaluation) Program based in Wilmington, Delaware, where she has been employed since 2016. She is board certified in the fields of Child Abuse Pediatrics and General Pediatrics. She completed residency training in General Pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in Bronx, New York and fellowship training in Child Abuse Pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has a Master of Science in Physiology, earned prior to medical school, and recently earned a Master of Science in Clinical Research through the Medical University of South Carolina. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and is clinical faculty for two advanced pediatric medicine fellowship training programs at Nemours, including the Academic Pediatrics and Pediatric Hospital Medicine programs. She has worked in clinical medical practice for over a decade and was recently recognized for achievements and awarded the Physician of Excellence 2022 Award by Nemours Children’s Health Medical Staff Board. In her role as Nemours Children’s Health CARE Program Medical Director, she is actively involved in the care of several hundred suspected child victims of physical, sexual abuse and neglect annually, including those children who have experienced abusive sentinel injuries, fractures, bruises, abdominal injury, child torture, drug endangerment and witness to domestic violence. This reflects direct clinical care of those infants and children treated at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Nemours CARE Clinic, and the review and clinical oversight of the Nemours emergency department-based Forensic Nurse Examiner Program. Additionally, she is involved routinely in multidisciplinary reviews of both living and deceased children suspected to be victims of maltreatment across the Delaware Valley region. She has served on the Sudden Unexpected Death in the Young, Advanced Medical Panel child fatality review commission for the state of Delaware since 2019. She currently co-chairs a Child Protection Accountability Commission (CPAC) workgroup on Mental Health, Medical and Prevention Best Practices After Sexual Abuse (part of the Committee on the Investigation, Prosecution and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse) and co-chairs the CPAC Medical Response to Child Abuse workgroup. She additionally serves on multiple other committees at the state, local and hospital level across Delaware and Pennsylvania addressing child abuse and neglect related topics.