Executive Director, The Mount Sinai Parenting Center

Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. Quinn received her undergraduate degree in Science-Business from the University of Notre Dame and her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Quinn completed her residency in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center in the Boston Combined Residency Program. She is a board certified pediatrician and worked in private practice in Queens for many years prior to joining the Faculty Practice within the Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where she taught medical students, residents and mentored MD-PhD students in her clinical practice.  Dr. Quinn has worked as the executive director of the Mount Sinai Parenting Center since its inception in 2014.

Co-Founding Director and Director of Medical Education, The Mount Sinai Parenting Center

Dr. Blair Hammond is a board certified pediatrician who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai.  She received her Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Dartmouth College where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She also completed her medical training at Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center and was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Society.  She pursued a residency training in Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and received the Clinician-Educator Award. Dr. Hammond completed a medical education fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and was the Pediatric Clerkship and Sub-Internship Course Director from 2006-2017.  In 2008, Dr. Hammond founded the General Pediatrics Faculty Practice where she still practices today. In 2010, she was awarded the Mount Sinai Excellence in Teaching Award.  Dr. Hammond is now the Co-Founding Director and Director of Medical Education for the Mount Sinai Parenting Center. Dr. Hammond continues to be involved in medical student and resident education in addition to her general pediatric practice.  She lives with her husband and 3 children in Westchester.

Co-Founding Director and Director of Clinical Programming, The Mount Sinai Parenting Center

Clinical Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Co-Founder, SeedlingsGroup

Dr. Pressman is the co-founder of the SeedlingsGroup, a New York City and Los Angeles parent education group that uses evidence-based research and information to educate and guide families about their developing children. She received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, her M.A. in Risk, Resilience and Prevention from the Department of Human Development at Teacher’s College, and her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Pressman is certified in parent management training from the Yale Parenting Center.

Director of Programs, The Mount Sinai Parenting Center

Teaching Assistant, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ms. Benjamin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York City with over 10 years of experience at Mount Sinai Medical Center working with families and children. She received her B.A. and B.S. summa cum laude from Northwestern University and her Master’s Degree in Social Work from New York University. In addition to serving as the Program Director at the Mount Sinai Parenting Center, she is on faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health. She is certified in parent management training from the Yale Parenting Center and is a trained facilitator of Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs.

Director of Research, The Mount Sinai Parenting Center

Horace W. Goldsmith Professor in Children’s Health Research, Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. Wright received a Bachelor of Science in Human Genetics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and she obtained her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1989, graduating Cum Laude. Following medical school, Dr. Wright completed an internship in Internal Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School. She then moved to Chicago, Illinois to complete her residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern University, where she also served as Chief Medical Resident. She then returned to Boston to complete fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Harvard Medical School. As part of this training, Dr. Wright obtained a Master’s in Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. In 1997, she joined the clinical faculty at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the research faculty at the Channing Laboratory, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, where she remained on the faculty until she was recruited to The Mount Sinai Hospital as Vice Chair of Clinical & Translational Research in the Department of Pediatrics in August 2012.

Director of Behavior and Developmental Sciences, The Mount Sinai Parenting Center

Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine

Dr. Martinez received her undergraduate degree from Duke University and her medical degree from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. She completed her Pediatric residency at Mount Sinai in 2009 and recently completed her Developmental-Behavioral Pediatric fellowship at NYU Langone Medical Center at Bellevue. Dr. Martinez specializes in the evaluation and treatment of children with developmental delays and disabilities. She works closely with families to identify a child’s needs and strengths, and assists in obtaining the optimal interventions to promote learning. Her subspecialty interests include complex developmental disabilities and behavioral regulation disorders. 

Ms. Wyner has a background in project and people management, and has more than 10 years of experience working in public health and child welfare. She received her BA from Wesleyan University and her Master of Public Health and Master of Public Administration from Columbia University.  She is excited to help support the parenting center in promoting strong parent-child relationships and early child development.

Dr. Zhang is a child development researcher with special interest in culture-centered research. Dr. Zhang was educated in the U.K. and the U.S. She received her B.S. in Psychology and M.S. in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology from University College London. She then moved to the U.S. and received her M.A. in Applied Child Development and Ph.D. in Child Study and Human Development from Tufts University.

Michelle has a background in project management, media, and higher education. Prior to pursuing her career in community health, Michelle worked as a television and web editor and producer in a variety of genres, including healthcare and education. She is excited to continue to provide education to both medical professionals and the communities they serve. Michelle holds a BA from the University of Delaware in Communications and a Masters in Public Administration from CUNY Baruch College Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.

Chelsea comes to the Parenting Center after receiving her Bachelor of Arts cum laude from Cornell University where she studied Psychology and worked as a research assistant in a developmental psychology laboratory. With particular interests in outreach and development, she is passionate about the Parenting Center’s mission of increasing the accessibility of developmental research to families.

Nora comes to the Parenting Center after spending four years providing administrative support in a non-profit setting, with a focus on tutoring and educational advocacy for underserved youth from across New York City. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at the Macaulay Honors College at Lehman College, CUNY. She is passionate about the Parenting Center’s mission to support families within the healthcare field.

Herbert H. Lehman Professor of Pediatrics and System Chair, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Health System

Pediatrician-in-Chief, Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai

Dr. Satlin received her MD degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed a residency in Pediatrics at the Babies Hospital of Columbia University and a Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. At the Icahn School of Medicine, as Chief of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology (1997-2010), Dr. Satlin built an internationally respected academic division and an ACGME-accredited Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship training program, which has attracted both physician and research trainees interested in clinical nephrology and basic/translational research related to developmental nephrology, respectively. She runs an active NIH-supported laboratory that serves as a national “Single Tubule Physiology Core” as part of an O’Brien Renal Research Center, focused on defining the mechanisms leading to the acquisition, maintenance and regulation of transepithelial transport in the renal collecting duct. She is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research, the American Pediatric Society, and the Association of American Physicians. Dr. Satlin has served as President of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology and Councilor of the International Pediatric Nephrology Association. She is Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physiology: Renal Physiology, and has participated in many study sections and grant-review groups for the NIH and the American Heart Association.

Vice Chair for Administration, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Health System

Freda Burstyn is the Vice Chair for Administration for the Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics at the Mount Sinai Health System. She provides leadership and is responsible for the strategic planning, development and implementation of initiatives for the Pediatric program. She plays an integral role in analyzing and setting priorities in collaboration with the Mount Sinai President’s Office and Leadership in the Mount Sinai Health System that will further expand operations for the Department, sustain improvement and direct success for the future. Ms. Burstyn’s role builds upon almost two decades of achievements at Mount Sinai where she now brings a wealth of executive management and leadership expertise to the forefront. She received her Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology and her Masters of Business Administration with a concentration in management from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Ms. Burstyn is a member of the Association of Administrators in Academic Pediatrics.

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health; Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science; and Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Associate Director, Department of Social Work Services, Mount Sinai Health System

Ms. Walther has over 30 years of clinical experience providing clinical social work services to women and children as well as managing a staff of over 35 pediatric social workers who specialize in the provision of population-based, comprehensive psychosocial services to children and families. Pediatric social work services include care coordination, behavioral and mental health service provision, advocacy and supportive counseling. Ms. Walther’s particular clinical expertise is working with children and families coping with chronic childhood illnesses, many of which are life-shortening. She writes and oversees numerous clinical service grants which enhance psychosocial services to children and their family members.

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. Mogilner is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Advocacy for the Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.  She directs the pediatric resident Advocacy and Community Pediatrics rotation.  Dr. Mogilner is founder and director of Reach Out and Read (ROR) at Mount Sinai, an early childhood literacy program based in the pediatric outpatient department which distributes over 15,000 books per year to patients and teaches parents about the importance of early childhood literacy.  Dr. Mogilner serves as Medical Director for Reach Out and Read of Greater New York, a coalition of over 200 ROR programs in the greater New York area.  Dr. Mogilner also oversees programs in the practice designed to address childhood obesity and food insecurity.  She is a principal investigator on the POWERfood study, a project designed to provide families struggling with obesity and food insecurity with vouchers for fresh fruits and vegetables.  Dr. Mogilner is a member of the AAP Council on Early Childhood Early Literacy Subcommittee and is Co-chair of the Academic Pediatric Association Advocacy Special Interest Group.

Kecia N. Carroll, MD, MPH, is the Division Chief of General Pediatrics in the Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai and Professor of Pediatrics and Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital. She is a board-certified general pediatrician, clinical investigator, and epidemiologist.

Dr. Carroll completed her medical degree at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and her Pediatric Residency at the University of California San Francisco, and a General Academic Pediatrics Research Fellowship at Vanderbilt. She joined the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and she is thrilled to have joined the Division of General Pediatrics with its providers and staff who are dedicated to activities including teaching learners of various stages and providing equitable care in innovative ways to patients and families.

Ellen and Howard C. Katz Chairman’s Chair in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Professor & Chair Emeritus Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. Brodman has gained national recognition as a physician/educator in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He received his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed a Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology and a Fellowship in Pelvic Surgery at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine.  He has been a member of the faculty since then. Dr. Brodman has gained national recognition as a physician/educator in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology.  He has been a member of both the Council on Resident Education in OB/GYN (CREOG), and the Association of Professors in OB/GYN (APGO).  Prior to assuming the chairmanship, Dr. Brodman was the director of the Division of Gynecology and the Residency Program Director. He also served as the Vice-chairman for Graduate Medical Education. Dr. Brodman has promote the new sub-specialty of Urogynecology, and Mount Sinai is one of the few centers nationwide that has an accredited Fellowship in this field. He has twice been awarded the APGO/CREOG Award for Teaching Excellence in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and three times the Mount Sinai Departmental Award for Outstanding Teacher of the Year. He has also been awarded the annual Nursing Award for Physician of the Year at Mount Sinai. Dr. Brodman has been named a Castle-Connolly/New York Magazine Top Doctor and a New York Times Magazine Super Doctor annually for the past ten years. He serves on the Board of the International Organization for Women and Development, a group that travels to Niger to perform fistula repair surgery. Dr. Brodman also serves as a Board Examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System and President of Mount Sinai Beth Israel and Downtown

Dr. Boal earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and his Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University in Montreal. Prior to his current roles, Dr. Boal served as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System. A board certified internist with additional certification in geriatrics, Dr. Boal joined Mount Sinai initially as a resident at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Early in his career, he served as Executive Director and Co-founder of Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program, which provides in-home primary care to more than 1,000 homebound patients annually. He later served as Vice Chair for Strategic Planning and Faculty Practice Services for the Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine. His lifelong interests and pursuits include the science of safety and high reliability, care of vulnerable populations, and acceleration of whole-system change.

Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Co-Founder, SeedlingsGroup

Bronwyn Becker Charlton, Ph.D., Co-Founder of seedlingsgroup, received her doctorate in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University and was a research scientist at New York University’s Center for Research on Culture, Development and Education. Dr. Charlton has published findings from her research on parenting and child development in prestigious journals and books, and lectured at professional conferences, schools, and public workshops. She is also certified in parent management training from the Yale Parenting Center. Dr. Charlton provides parenting support and developmental information to low-income mothers at Room To Grow; a direct-service program in New York City. Dr. Charlton is on the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the Department of Pediatrics.  Find out more at http://www.seedlingsgroup.com/

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Vice-Chair for Education for the Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Divison Chief of the Department of Pediatric Hospital Medicine and Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Director, Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital

Dr. Forman began his training at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, Vermont, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Society and received the New England Pediatric Society Prize. He then served as a Pediatric intern, resident and chief resident at Mount Sinai Hospital where he received the Association of Attending Staff/ Bella Trachtenberg Award for House Staff Excellence. Subsequently, he joined the general pediatrics faculty at Mount Sinai. Dr. Forman served as Assistant Pediatric Residency Program Director from 1996-2002 and Residency Program Director from 2002 – 2019. He assumed the role of Vice-Chair for Education in 2002. Dr. Forman helped Dr. Philip J. Landrigan to create a Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) and fellowship at Mount Sinai. Dr. Forman served for 6 years as a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Environmental Health and worked as a member of the NYC DOH and CDC Lead in Pregnancy Workgroups to formulate local and national lead in pregnancy guidelines. He served on the EPA Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee from 2014 – 2019 and has served as a member of the New York City Board of Health since 2010. Additionally, Dr. Forman, is a faculty member in the Mount Sinai Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit.

Chief Learning Officer, Mount Sinai Health System

Diane Adams is the Chief Learning Officer for the Mount Sinai Health System, which consists of 42,000 employees, 8 hospitals, a school of medicine and an extensive ambulatory care network. In the role, she provides leadership around the enterprise-wide talent strategy and the design and execution of educational solutions for the workforce. Since joining Mount Sinai, Ms. Adams has held a variety of clinical and leadership roles, including a faculty appointment at the Icahn School of Medicine.

Inaugural Head of the Division of Ambulatory Pediatrics and Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Medical Education, Dell Medical School

Dr. Malbari oversees the development and growth of the new division in the Department of Pediatrics at Dell Medical School with a vision to expand outpatient general pediatric services and provide a medical home for patients and families in the communities. Dr. Malbari’s medical education appointments include serving as a mentor in the DOCS clinical skills course for medical students in all four years as well as being involved in pediatric residency education and curriculum development at the graduate medical level. Dr. Malbari previously served as the medical director for the General Pediatric Faculty Practice, as well as the course director for the Art and Science of Medicine introduction to clinical skills course, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She was significantly involved in undergraduate and graduate medical education while at Mount Sinai and was inducted as a fellow educator in the Institute of Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2020. In addition to teaching, Malbari was involved in medical education scholarly research and served on several medical education committees. Dr. Malbari is a well established and sought after general pediatrician and was named as a Top Pediatrician 2020 in New York Magazine. Recognizing her exemplary interpersonal skills and bedside manner, she was awarded the Cullman Family Award for Excellence in Physician Communication in 2016 and 2018. Dr. Malbari earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at New York University and her medical degree at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. She completed her pediatric residency training and served as chief resident at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Associate Director and Social Work Manager, Department of Social Work, Mount Sinai Hospital

Laudy Burgos, LCSW is a Social Worker in the Women and Children’s Division at Mount Sinai Hospital. In this capacity, she provides case management and mental health services to pregnant women. Her specialty areas are teen pregnancy and postpartum depression. Ms. Burgos is also the coordinator for the Prenatal Partnership program, where she has primary responsibility for advising the medical student leaders as well as overseeing all referrals to the program. Ms. Burgos has presented at various national and international social work conferences and is the co-author of “The Inner City Asthma Intervention Asthma Counselor program: A Collaborative Model between Physician and Social Worker to Help Empower Families.” She also works as a consultant for several foster care agencies in New York City. Ms. Burgos is currently on faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Columbia University, School of Social Work and Fordham University, Graduate School of Social Services. She is a graduate of the New York University Silver School of Social Work.

Ethel H. Wise Professor and System Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine & Public Health & Professor, Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Director, Lautenberg Laboratory for Environmental Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH, is a pediatrician, medical toxicologist, and environmental epidemiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is the Ethel H. Wise Chair of the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Co-Director of the Institute for Exposomic Research, and Principal Investigator of an ongoing longitudinal birth cohort in Mexico City (Programming Research in Obesity, Growth, Environment and Social Stress–PROGRESS) in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Health, Mexico. He also founded the (Metals Assessment Targeting Community Health) MATCH study in Tar Creek, Oklahoma.

Dr. Wright studies chemical mixtures, social stressors as a modifier of chemical toxicity, and the role of genetics/epigenetics in modifying or mediating chemical toxicity. He is an international advocate for research on exposomics—the measure of all health relevant human exposure throughout the lifespan. He has published over 200 research studies and has served on numerous international and national committees and advisory boards. Dr. Wright founded the Senator Frank Lautenberg Laboratory of Environmental Health Sciences at Mount Sinai in 2014 and in 2020 launched the Laboratory for Innovation in Exposomic Precision Medicine. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School and completed residency in Pediatrics at Northwestern University, as well as the following fellowships: Emergency Medicine, (Brown University), Medical Toxicology (Harvard University), Environmental Epidemiology, (Harvard University) and Genetic Epidemiology (Harvard University). Dr. Wright also established the Mount Sinai Transdisciplinary Center on Early Environmental Exposures—a NIH funded Core Center grant program that provides infrastructure support to Mount Sinai environmental researchers.

Chief Medical Officer, Mount Sinai Health System

Senior Vice President, Mount Sinai Health System

Dr. LoPachin focuses on maximizing patient safety and preventing patient harm; creating collaborative relationships among medical, nursing, and administrative leaders and teams; and guiding the medical staff to deliver the best possible service to our patients.

From 2014-2016, Dr. LoPachin served as Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of The Mount Sinai Hospital.  In this role, Dr. LoPachin championed many successful safety and quality initiatives, including serious adverse event responses, hospital throughput improvements, excess day reductions, reducing hospital-acquired infections and decreasing sepsis mortality.  Prior to serving as Chief Medical Officer at Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. LoPachin was the Medical Director of the North Shore University Hospital, part of the Northwell Health System.

Dr. LoPachin began her career at Mount Sinai as a Resident in Internal Medicine.  She served as Chief Resident and then was an Internal Medicine faculty member for more than a decade. Demonstrating leadership early in her career, Dr. LoPachin served in many capacities, including Lead Physician Advisor and Medical Director of Case Management, Chair of the Utilization Review Committee, member of the Executive Committee of the Medical Board, and President of the Association of Attending Staff.

Dr. LoPachin is a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Medical Quality, the American College of Physician Executives, and the American College of Healthcare Executives, and she is an Invited Fellow of the American College of Physicians. She is also a committee member of the New York chapter of the American College of Physicians Quality Task Force.

Dr. LoPachin received her MBA with distinction in Health Service Management from the Frank G. Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University. She earned her MD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.

Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics & Department of Medical Education, Icahn School of Medicine, Elmhurst Hospital

Dr. Raphan received her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. Her area of focus is medical education and quality improvement.

Dr. Raphan completed her medical degree with a distinction in research from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She continued on at Mount Sinai for her Pediatric Residency training and Chief Resident year and was the recipient of the Donald and Irwin Gribetz Excellence in Primary Care Award. Following her time at Sinai Dr. Raphan transitioned to Elmhurst Hospital, a city hospital with an academic affiliation with Mount Sinai. Dr. Raphan is a board certified pediatrician, who serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Icahn School of Medicine at Elmhurst Hospital.

Director of Women and Children’s Social Work at Mount Sinai Hospital

Bambi Fisher oversees and provides leadership to a staff of Social Workers and Care Coordinators in the Pediatric and Obstetric Social Work program. Ms. Fisher is on faculty in the Department of Environmental Medicine & Public Health and the Department of Pediatrics. She is a Wellness Advisor to medical students at the Icahn School of Medicine also works as a consultant and liaison to the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) at Mount Sinai.

Ms. Fisher specializes in work related to both chronic illness management as well as school and preschool mental health consultations and parental guidance. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri, School of Social Work, and has advanced training in Child and Adolescent Treatment from Fordham University in New York.

President and Co-Founder, Families and Work Institute

Chief Science Officer and Executive Director of Mind in the Making, Bezos Family Foundation

Ellen Galinsky helped establish the field of work and family life at Bank Street College of Education, where she was on the faculty for 25 years. Her 40+ books and reports include the highly acclaimed Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs, Ask The Children and the now classic The Six Stages of Parenthood. At the Families and Work Institute, Ms. Galinsky co-directs the National Study of the Changing Workforce, and the When Work Works project. She also conducts the National Study of Employers and the the national Mind in the Making learning campaign. Ms. Galinsky is the Program Director for The Conference Board’s Work Life Leadership Council, a group of business leaders who have spearheaded work life issues in the business community since 1983, and she is a past President of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the largest professional group of early childhood educators. A leading authority on work family issues, Ms. Galinsky is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award from Vassar College and the 2005 Outstanding Volunteer and Professional Achievement Award from the National Cathedral School. She was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources in 2005. A popular keynote speaker, Ms. Galinsky appears regularly at national conferences, on television and in the media, including the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, World News Tonight and Oprah. She holds a M.S. in Child Development/Education from Bank Street College of Education, a B.A. in Child Study from Vassar College, and numerous honorary degrees.

Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development, Teachers College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.

Co-Director, National Center for Children and Families, Teachers College 

Dr. Brooks-Gunn is a developmental psychologist who studies children, youth, and families over time. She is interested in the family and neighborhood conditions that influence how children and youth thrive or do not, and how conditions at different ages influence development. She also analyzes policies and evaluates interventions for children and families (home visiting clinic based programs, early childhood education programs, and after school programs). The author of over 600 publications, seven books, and 16 edited volumes, Dr. Brooks-Gunn has received numerous honors and awards for her work. She is the recipient of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education Alumni Council Award, election into the National Academy of Education, election into the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies; Honorary Doctorate of Science at Northwestern University; Distinguished Contributions to the Public Policy for Children Award from the Society for Research in Child Development; Margaret Mead Fellow Award by the American Academy of Political and Social Science; James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the American Psychological Society; Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy Award from the American Psychological Association; and the John P. Hill Award for excellence in theory development and research on adolescents from the Society for Research on Adolescence.

Senior Parenting Advisor at ZERO TO THREE

Claire Lerner, LCSW-C is a licensed clinical social worker and child development specialist. She has been a practicing clinician for over 30 years, partnering with parents to understand the behavior and development of their young children. Claire served as the Director of Parenting Resources at ZERO TO THREE for more than 18 years, where she oversaw the development of all parenting educational content. She currently serves as the Senior Parenting Advisor at ZERO TO THREE to enable her to spend more time working directly with families and providing consultation to preschools. Claire is also the author of numerous parenting publications, curricula, and articles in addition to a podcast and video series for parents and professionals.

Claire writes a column for PBSparents.org and has also written columns for Parenting: The Early Years and American Baby Magazines. She has been a source on early childhood development for NPR and numerous national daily newspapers such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

Research Consultant, The Mount Sinai Parenting Center 

Dr. Martin’s research focuses on the early cognitive, socioemotional, and self-regulatory development of children in low-income families. She is particularly interested in interventions that improve the quality of children’s home or child care and education environments. She received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and her master’s and doctoral degrees in public health from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Before joining The Parenting Center, Dr. Martin served as Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Children and Families at Teachers College, where she supervised master’s students, doctoral students, and post-doctoral fellows as an investigator on multiple studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Administration for Children and Families, the New York City Administration for Children’s Services, and numerous foundations. She is the author of over 35 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Founder, Child’s Play NY and Child’s Play in Action

Jocelyn Greene is the Founder of Child’s Play in Action a resource that brings play-based inspiration to parents and educators.  She is the Founder and Executive Director of Child’s Play NY – recognized as among the top theater-arts programs in New York. She trains teachers and works in schools and in her studios, facilitating programs and directing hundreds of children each year. Jocelyn received her BFA from Wesleyan University and her MFA in Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.  Read more at http://www.childsplayinaction.com/ or http://childsplayny.com/