meet the Revest® team
The creators of the VEST® screening tool and response protocol, an interactive, efficient, and accurate program for healthcare professionals and institutions to recognize and respond to exploitation.
COREY ROOD, MD
Corey J. Rood, MD, FAAP is the Division Chief of the Child Abuse Pediatrics division in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California Irvine and the Medical Director of the CAST Medical clinic in Orange and the Child Abuse & Prevention Team at Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Long Beach. He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics with the UC Irvine School of Medicine. As a Child Abuse Pediatrician, his work focuses on the diagnosis, care, and management of potentially abused and neglected children. Dr. Rood’s clinical and research interests and expertise include commercially sexually exploited children (CSEC) including human trafficking, both international and domestic. Dr. Rood’s research endeavors include recent studies on sexting and online sexual solicitation exposure amongst adolescents with suspected sexual abuse, and human trafficking screening of adolescent patients.
Dr. Rood is an active member of many professional organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), its Section On Child Abuse & Neglect (SOCAN), the Ray Helfer Society, and the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect (ISPCAN). He has spent time as medical representation on the Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force and on Utah’s Trafficking in Persons (UTIP) Task Force Executive Board and Co-Chair of the UTIP Medical Subcommittee for the state. He now is a medical representative on the Orange County Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) Steering Committee as well as a member of the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force and co-chairs its Healthcare Subcommittee.
LISA MURDOCK, MSN, RN, CNE
Lisa Murdock MSN, RN, CNE, is an acute care pediatric nurse and a pediatric clinical nursing professor. Since 2000, she has worked in pediatric acute care in several children’s hospitals across the country, including 12 years in Puerto Rico. Lisa began her journey in anti-trafficking efforts after meeting a survivor in 2014. That meeting inspired her to expand her work to include exploitation and human trafficking in healthcare education and to implement evidence-based protocols for inpatient pediatric hospitals. Lisa believes that nurses are in a unique position at the frontlines of patient care to identify and advocate for at-risk individuals or those already being trafficked. As a nurse, she believes it is imperative to accurately educate healthcare providers and to implement a multidisciplinary approach to anti-trafficking efforts, including collaborating with outpatient service agencies.
Working as a pediatric clinical professor has enabled her to integrate human trafficking education into pediatric clinical rotations at the university level. Lisa continues to conduct and translate research on healthcare and human trafficking into practice, improving patient outcomes through provider education, screening implementation, policy and response protocols, and establishing an outpatient referral network. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, a Master’s degree in Nursing Education, and a post-graduate certification in nursing education. Lisa is a member of the Society of Pediatric Nurses and the Association of California Nurse Leaders. She is actively involved in the local human trafficking task force and serves as the co-chair of the healthcare subcommittee.