Meet the TEAM | TEAM UP for Children

TEAM UP Center Team

Anita Morris, MSN

Executive Director

Research Profile

Emily Feinberg, ScD, CPNP

Director, Emerging Projects

Chris Sheldrick, PhD

Co-Director, Research & Evaluation

Research Profile

Megan Cole Brahim, PhD, MPH

Co-Director, Research & Evaluation

Research Profile

Sonia Erlich, LMHC, MFA, MA

Deputy Director, Workforce Development and Training

Charlotte Vieira, MPH

Deputy Director, Model Implementation

Megan Bair-Merritt, MD, MSCE

TEAM UP C-Suite Champion

Karthika Parithivel Streb, MPH, M.Ed.

Deputy Administrative Director

Elijah Boliver, MPH

Data and Implementation Analyst

Peggie Bobo, JD

Communications Manager

Julianna Brody-Fialkin, MSW, MPH, LICSW

Clinical Training Specialist

Arth Hin, BLA

Community Health Worker (CHW) Role Coordinator

Jihye Kim, PhD

Research Scientist

Gayathri Krishna, MPH

Project Coordinator

Heather McNally, BSW

Learning Community Coordinator

Sonya Nguyen, MPH

Project Coordinator

Carmen Rosa Noroña, LICSW, MS. Ed., IECMH-E®

Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant

Emily Stewart, DSW, LICSW

Clinical Training Specialist

Rocio Nunez Pepen, BA

Project Manager

Jessica Rosenberg, MPH

Data Manager

Dana Rubin, MD, MSW

Psychiatry Integration Liaison

Strategic Advisory Board

The Strategic Advisory Board serves to provide ongoing consultation, support, and guidance to the TEAM UP Center. The Board is composed of experts in areas critical to the success of the TEAM UP Center, including clinical, operational, policy, evaluation, and consumer/patient representation.

Board Members

Lissette Blondet, EdM

Executive Director
Massachusetts Association of Community Health Workers

Maria G. Celli, PsyD

Chief Executive Officer
Brockton Neighborhood Health Center

Susan Dargon-Hart, LICSW

Vice President of Clinical Health Affairs
Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers

Richard Frank, PhD

Senior Fellow and Director of The Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy at the Brookings Institute; Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School

Kate Ginnis, MSW, MPH

Senior Policy Advisor
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Josh Greenberg, JD

Vice President of Government Relations
Boston Children’s Hospital

Kimberly Hoagwood, PhD

Cathy and Stephen Graham Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
New York University School of Medicine

Sue Kaufman, MS

Independent Consultant

Parinda Khatri, PhD

Chief Executive Officer
Cherokee Health Systems

Laurel Leslie, MD

Director, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Mental and Behavioral Health Institute (MBHI)
Vice President of Research, American Board of Pediatrics

Benjamin Miller, PsyD

Independent Consultant

Cindy Mann, JD

Partner
Manatt Health

Huy Q. Nguyen, MD

Pediatrics Department
DotHouse Health

Russ Phillips, MD

Director of the Center for Primary Care and the William Applebaum Professor of Medicine and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Donna Cohen Ross, BA

Independent Consultant

Pam Sager, JD

Executive Director
Massachusetts Parent Professional Advocacy League

Marylou Sudders, MSW

Senior Policy Advisor
Smith, Costello & Crawford

Larry Wissow, MD

Division Chief, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Seattle Children’s Hospital Raisbeck Professor and Head, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, UW School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Funding Partners

TEAM UP Center Partners

TEAM UP Policy and Advocacy Partner

Career opportunities

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Careers