Alice Newton, MD, FAAP - Course Director

Dr. Alice Newton is the Medical Director of the Child Protection Program at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Newton is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. She has been an invited speaker at local, national, and international locations.  Dr. Newton participates in research with local and national colleagues and has written articles and chapters on many forms of child abuse. 

Dr. Newton sits on the Massachusetts Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Board, and is the medical director of the Massachusetts Pediatric SANE Program.  She also sits on the board of the Massachusetts Childre? s Alliance.  She is a member of the Suffolk County Child Fatality Review Committee, the Massachusetts Shaken Baby Prevention Coalition, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Dr. Newton also provides primary care service at the Pediatric Group Practice at MGH. 

Aine Blanchard, LICSW

Aine Blanchard is the Program Manager of the Child Protection Program at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Aine worked as a Clinical Social Worker in the Emergency Department at Boston Childrens Hospital for 10 years, providing acute clinical services; risk assessment, crisis intervention and case consultation. She spent 2 of those years also serving as the mental health consultant for the Children’s Advocacy Center of Norfolk County. In 2012, she began working with the Boston Police Department as the Assistant Clinical Director of their YouthConnect project, intervening with high risk youth impacted by community violence.

In 2014, she returned to the hospital setting to develop the Child Protection Program at Tufts Medical Center. She managed this program for the subsequent 4 years. She came to MGH in 2017 and assumed her current role of the Child Protection Program Manager.

In addition to her work at MGH, Aine teaches a graduate class on child and adolescent trauma at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work.