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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2025
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Karen J. Farst

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Professor of Pediatrics Chief Medical Officer, Arkansas Children's

Also affiliated: Arkansas Children's Hospital (2006–2023); University of Arkansas Medical Center (2025); Association for Children at Risk (2013)

8 h-index 16 pubs 664 cited

  • Humans
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Child Abuse
  • Child Abuse, Sexual
  • Male
  • Infant
  • Adolescent
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Substance-Related Disorders
  • Child Welfare
  • Pediatrics
  • Physical Examination
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Biography and Research Information

Metrics

  • h-index: 8
  • Publications: 16
  • Citations: 664

Positions

Selected Publications

  • Impact of Parental Substance Misuse on Children (2025)
    Pediatric Clinics of North America DOI OpenAlex
  • Interpretation of medical findings in suspected child sexual abuse: An update for 2023 (2023)
    Child Abuse & Neglect 58 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Intrauterine Substance Exposure and the Risk for Subsequent Physical Abuse Hospitalizations (2020)
    Academic Pediatrics 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Drug-Endangered Children (2019)
    American Academy of Pediatrics eBooks 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Interpretation of Medical Findings in Suspected Child Sexual Abuse: An Update for 2018 (2017)
    Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology 165 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Updated Guidelines for the Medical Assessment and Care of Children Who May Have Been Sexually Abused (2015)
    Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology 201 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Maltreatment-Related Emergency Department Visits Among Children 0 to 3 Years Old in the United States (2015)
    Child Maltreatment 60 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Substance-Exposed Infants and Children: Forensic Approach (2012)
    Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Hair drug testing of children suspected of exposure to the manufacture of methamphetamine (2011)
    Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine 20 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Drug Testing for Newborn Exposure to Illicit Substances in Pregnancy: Pitfalls and Pearls (2011)
    International Journal of Pediatrics 53 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The Use of Hair Analysis to Test Children for Exposure to Methamphetamine (2006)
    SSRN Electronic Journal 2 citations OpenAlex
  • Methamphetamine Exposure Presenting as Caustic Ingestions in Children (2006)
    Annals of Emergency Medicine 42 citations DOI OpenAlex

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