
Kent Hymel, M.D.
title
Child Abuse Pediatrician, Penn State Health Children’s Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics, Penn State College of Medicine
Phone
717-531-5158Office
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Division of Child Abuse Pediatrics, Mail Code H085
500 University Drive, P.O. Box 850
Hershey, PA 17033-0850
Brief Bio
Dr. Kent P. Hymel completed his fellowship training in Child Abuse Pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado in 1996. He has served as the U.S. Air Force Medical Consultant for Child Abuse, and has directed child abuse programs at Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children and at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. In 2014, Dr. Hymel joined the Center for the Protection of Children at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Penn State College of Medicine, a past member of the AAP’s Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, a past President of the Ray E. Helfer Society—the professional society for child abuse physicians, and the Deputy Medical Editor of the Subboard in Child Abuse Pediatrics of the ABP. Dr. Hymel founded and directs the Pediatric Brain Injury Research Network, and is the Principle Investigator of an NIH-funded clinical trial testing the impact of a novel, PICU-based screening tool for pediatric abusive head trauma.
Education
1977, B.S., General Biology, University of Illinois
1980, M.D., Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
1983, General Pediatrics, Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center
1996, Child Abuse Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital, Denver
Expertise
child abuse pediatrics
Research Interests
abusive head trauma, child abuse screening and predictive tools