Shawn Singleton, MD, FAAP

Medical Director, Children At Risk Evaluation (CARE) Team, Banner Children’s Hospital and AzAAP Trauma Informed Care Ambassador

Dr. Shawn Singleton is a board-certified pediatrician practicing in Arizona since beginning his residency at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in 2003 and served as Chief Resident from 2006 to 2007. Dr. Singleton is a member in good standing with the AAP, AZAAP, COCAN, Helfer Society, APSAC, and ISPCAN. He currently serves on the CFR teams for Maricopa and Pinal Counties.

In late 2018, he transitioned from work as a community based general pediatrician to the Child Protection (CARE, formerly SCAN) team in the Banner system. Dr. Singleton completed the required training in July 2019 and began providing in person consults and telephonic case advice and was promoted to the medical director of the CARE Team effective January 2020.

During his time with Banner, the CARE Team has continued to evolve as a system and community leader in delivering education to providers, nursing, medical/PA/NP students to help improve early recognition of child maltreatment. Additionally, the CARE Team has worked with partners to improve recognition of at-risk families and provide these families with connection to community and governmental resources.

Dr. Singleton is a medical practitioner with the Southwest Human Development’s Birth to Five Center of Excellence. His role on the multi-disciplinary team is to review medical records and provide advice as needed for additional medical evaluations. As a part of this role, he provides education on developmental surveillance and screening to one of the Family Practice residency programs.

Dr. Singleton’s goal is to develop innovative programs and/or utilize the excellent existing programs to help strengthen families thus reduce child maltreatment in addition to protecting children who have been victimized by maltreatment.