Dr. Barbara Craig, (Captain, Medical Corps, United States Navy-Retired), is a pediatrician who is board certified in both general pediatrics and child abuse pediatrics.  She is the senior medical consultant for child abuse and neglect in the Uniformed Services.  Dr. Craig founded and directs the Armed Forces Center for Child Protection, the only child protection center and fully equipped medical consultative service in the military related to child maltreatment.  Additionally, she serves as the medical representative on the Navy and Marine Corps Spouse and Child Death Review Teams and on the Navy Family Advocacy Headquarters Review Team.  She is also the senior medical consultant for the Department of Defense Family Advocacy Command Assistance Team that mobilizes to investigate multiple victim child sexual abuse cases.  She has extensive experience and training in the field of child physical and sexual abuse, child neglect, child fatalities, evaluating child exploitation, as well as pediatric and adolescent gynecology.  Dr. Craig is also an assistant professor of pediatrics at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.   She is also the senior pediatric consultant for the State Department when suspected child abuse cases arise at embassies or among DOS employees.

Dr. Craig regularly lectures to multidisciplinary agencies including physicians, residents, interns, medical students, nurses, and other allied health professionals, lawyers, social workers, criminal investigators, dentists, chaplains, victim advocates, and line officers.  She interviews and examines children who are suspected to have been maltreated world-wide throughout the Department of Defense.  Dr. Craig serves as a consultant to social services, medical, legal, and investigative agencies within the Department of Defense and civilian community for cases of suspected child maltreatment – physical and sexual abuse, child homicides, neglect, children who witness violence, as well as child pornography evaluations -- including medical-legal case reviews, expert testimony, training, and education.  She regularly testifies as an expert witnesses or consultant for both prosecution and defense in criminal cases, custody hearings, termination of parental rights hearings, and military courts-martial.