Jacqueline Sugarman, MD, FAAP

Jacqueline M Sugarman, MD, FAAP, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Forensic Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Kentucky and serves as both the medical director for the Children’s Advocacy Center of the Bluegrass and the Children’s Advocacy Centers of Kentucky. Dr. Sugarman received her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine and completed her residency in Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She completed a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, joined the faculty in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Louisville, and evaluated children at Children First in Louisville (which would later become Family & Children’s Place). After a hiatus in private practice in East Tennessee, she returned to Kentucky to join the faculty at University of Kentucky Department of Pediatrics. She is Board-Certified in both pediatrics and child abuse medicine. Dr. Sugarman was a member of the committee tasked by the Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs to write a Child Sexual Abuse Medical Protocol for the state of Kentucky. She collaborated with medical providers across the state to create the first Pediatric Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE -P) course in the Commonwealth and serves as both an educator and preceptor for SANE -P course trainees. She serves on the Kentucky Multidisciplinary Commission on Child Sexual Abuse.