FACULTY

UMMS-SHRIVER Center Leadership Education In Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) Program

Administration

Kathleen Braden, MD
Director, UMMS-Shriver LEND Program; Associate Director, University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities; Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Tufts University Medical School; Adjunct Professor, Department of Public Management, Suffolk University. Link to faculty page

Carol Curtin, MSW
Associate Director & Training Director, UMMS-Shriver LEND and University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) Programs; Research Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Senior Lecturer in Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor, Department of Public Management, Suffolk University. Link to faculty page

UMMS Faculty & Staff

Robin Adair, MD
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School, LEND program, Shriver University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. Link to faculty page

Mary Ahn, MD
Program Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Residency Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Linda G. Bandini, PhD
Director of Nutrition, LEND Program; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Clinical Professor, Sargent College of Allied Health Professions, Boston University. Link to faculty page

Robert Bass, PhD
Director, New England INDEX, Director of Psychology, LEND Program; Associate Director, Shriver Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities; Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Link to faculty page

Alexander Blount, EdD
Director of Behavioral Science and Professor, Department of Family Medicine & Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Link to faculty page

Richard Fleming, PhD
Director of Instructional Design, Shriver University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Link to faculty page.

Jean Frazier, MD
Vice Chair of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Robert M. & Shirley S. Siff Chair in Autism, Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Link to faculty page

Elaine Gabovitch, MPA
Director of Family Centered Initiatives, LEND and University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities programs. Link to faculty page

James Gleason, MS, PT
Director of Physical Therapy LEND Program; Associate Director, Shriver University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities; Instructor in Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University; Adjunct Professor, Department of Public Management, Suffolk University. Link to faculty page.

Carol Imposimato
Administrative Assistant, Shriver LEND and University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) programs.

David Levoy, MD
Instructor in Clinical Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Linda Long-Bellil, PhD, JD
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine & Community Health; Project Director, Disability Health and Employment Policy Group, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Margaret Manning, PhD
Psychologist, Instructor in Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Renee Scampini, MS, RD
Nutritionist, Project Director, Student Supervisor

Richard W. Serna, PhD
Director of Research, Shriver Center UCEDD; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Link to faculty page

Ruth B. Smith, PhD
Director of Social Work, LEND Program; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Adjunct Professor, Suffolk University; Adjunct Faculty, Simmons College School of Social Work. Link to faculty page

Heidi Stanish, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Boston; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Link to faculty page

Susan Swanson. MS, CCC-SLP
Speech/Language Pathologist

Lee Vorderer, MA
Director of Special Education, LEND Program; Instructor in Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Adjunct Professor, Department of Public Management, Suffolk University; Adjunct Faculty, Psychology Department, University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Link to faculty page

Partners at the Center for Public Management, Suffolk University

Marie M. (Sandy) Matava, MPA
Director of the Center for Public Management; Clinical Professor of Public Management, Department of Public Management

Mark Andrews, MPA
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Public Management

Richard H. Beinecke, DPA, ACSW
Associate Professor of Public Administration; Department of Public Management

Les Cavicchi, MPA
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Public Management

Linda Melconinan, JD
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Public Management

Michael Lavin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Public Management

Nicole Rivers, MPA
Adjunct Professor, Department of Public Management

Partners at the Center for Children with Special Needs, Tufts Medical Center

Monica Ultmann, MD
Medical Director, Center for Children with Special Needs; Chief, Division of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics; Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician

Ellen C. Perrin, MD
Director of Research, Center for Children with Special Needs; Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician

Karen Miller, MD
Director of Training, Center for Children with Special Needs; Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician

Susan Barron, PhD
Neuropsychologist

Bernadette Bentley, MA
Autism Specialist, Autism Consortium

Karen Bresnahan, MD
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician

Roula Choueiri, MD
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician

Catherine Davis, MD
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician

Laurie Demmer, MD
Director of Genetics; Pediatrician

Adam Geyer, MSW, LICSW
Clinical Social Worker

Melinda Klein, MSW
Clinical Social Worker

Laurel Leslie, MD, MPH
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician

Catherine Mason, MEd
Educational Specialist

Kathleen Reilly, MS, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist

Sue Ponte, MS, RN
Nurse Practitioner

R. C. Sheldrick, PhD
Developmental Psychologist; Research Associate

Naomi Steiner, MD
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician

Ludwig Erik von Hahn, MD
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician

Other Collaborators

Marilyn Augustyn, MD
Director of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA

John P. Morgan, DDS, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of General Dentistry, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Director, Tufts Dental Facility for People with Disabilities

Mary Beth Kadlec, ScD, OTR-L
Occupational Therapist; Program Director, Mass General Hospital YouthCare Program; Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, Tufts University

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