About Us

Leadership

Board of Directors

• Mark T. Gates, Chair
  
• James Otieno, Vice Chair
  
• Bren Leisure, Secretary
  
• Lawrence M. Schwab, Treasurer
  
• Mark Berryman, CPA
  
• Elizabeth Dumanian, M.S.W.
  
• Curtis Feeny
  
• Rita deSales French, Ph.D.
  
• Ross Jaffe, M.D.
  
• Christine Johnson, Ph.D.
  
• Mary Johnson
  
• Robert A. Keller
  
• Suzanne Killea
  
• Michèle Kirsch
  
• Kelly Look, M.D.
  
• Patrick J. McGaraghan
  
• Lisa Mooring
• Anne B. Moses, MBA, MSW
  
• Margot Parker
  
• Joseph Seiger
  
• Elizabeth Shen
  
• David Stevenson, M.D.
  
• Dee Tolles
  
• Andrew P. Valentine
  
• Mee Leng WANG
  
• Rosalie Whitlock, Ph.D.
  
• Quin Whitman
  
• Lori Castellucci, Ex Officio, Auxiliary President
• Michael J. Lazarus, Ex Officio, Summer Symphony
• Kim LeMieux, Ex Officio, Summer Symphony
  

Staff

• Glen Elliott, Ph.D., M.D.,Chief Psychiatrist, Interim Clinical Director
• Bruce G. Fielding, Jr., CFO, Administration and Finance Director
• Karen Grites M.S., Educational Services Director
  
• Chris Harris , M.Ed., Esther B. Clark School Director
• Lynne Huffman, M.D., Outcomes Measurement and Research Director
• Terry Kurfess M.A., Development and Community Relations Director
• Tom McPherson M.A., Client Services Director
• Anne B. Moses MBA, MSW, Executive Director
• Carol Roccuzzo M.B.A., C.H.C. Human Resources Director,
  Chief Compliance Officer

Glen Elliott, Ph.D., M.D.,Chief Psychiatrist, Interim Clinical Director
Glen Elliott joins the staff at CHC as Chief Psychiatrist. He will be responsible for the Psychiatry Department, the psychiatry fellow training program and program design and development in his areas of expertise. Dr. Elliott is renowned for his work with children with ADHD and with Autism, and for his expertise in psychopharmacology with children.

Dr. Elliott obtained his Ph.D. and M.D. through the Stanford Medical Scientist Training Program. He then spent several years working on research policy at the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., and at the Division of Health Policy Research and Education at Harvard. Upon completing training in general psychiatry at McLean Hospital/Harvard and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford, Dr. Elliott joined the Stanford faculty in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 1986.

In January 1989, Dr. Elliott moved to UCSF in the Department of Psychiatry, where he served as Director of what is now called The Children's Center at Langley Porter until he retired July 2006 an Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychiatry.

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Bruce G. Fielding Jr., Chief Financial Officer,
Administration and Finance Director
Bruce Fielding has served as the Children's Health Council's Director of Finance & Administration since the summer of 2004. He previously served on CHC's Board of Directors for nine years, one of them as Board Chair. He currently serves on the Boards of several non-profits and recently was Chair of the Cantor Art Center Membership Board of Governors. A finance entrepreneur, Bruce has an extensive history in Silicon Valley hi-tech startups.

Bruce lives in Mountain View with his wife, Cathy, and has a bachelor's degree
with a concentration in Accounting from San Jose State University. He is also a professional chef and vineyard owner.

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Karen Grites, Educational Services Director
Karen Grites has been with the Children's Health Council for almost 18 years, working as an educational therapist, site director for the All Kinds of Minds' Schools Attuned® program, and as director of Educational Services. Before coming to CHC, she worked in public school settings for 18 years as a Special Day Class teacher for emotionally disturbed students and as a Resource Specialist for Learning Disabled.

Karen graduated from Illinois State University with a bachelor's degree in Special Education - Mental Retardation and a master's degree in Learning Disabilities - Emotionally Disturbed and Social Maladjustment. She is a member of the Learning Disabilities of America (LDA) and California Speech and Hearing Association (CASHA) and was a presenter at the spring CASHA conference.

Chris Harris, Esther B. Clark School Director

Lynne Huffman, Outcomes Measurement and Research Director
Lynne C. Huffman, M.D., Director of the Children's Health Council (CHC) Outcomes Measurement and Research Department, is a developmental-behavioral pediatrician (board certified, 2002) and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry in the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Huffman brings over 15 years of research, administrative, clinical and teaching experience to her position. She received her M.D. from George Washington University (1981) and completed her pediatric residency training at the Children's National Medical Center (Washington, D.C., 1984). Her subspecialty training in developmental-behavioral pediatrics was completed at UCSF (1986), with an NIH research post-doctoral fellowship (1989). Between 1991 and 1997, Dr. Huffman was the Medical Officer and Chief of the Personality and Emotion Program at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Among other responsibilities at NIMH, she administered a program of grant support for M.D. and Ph.D. research, career, and training grants, and provided advice and guidance in areas of basic behavior, developmental psychopathology and developmental-behavioral pediatric research. Dr. Huffman joined CHC in 1997, where she is a member of the CHC executive management team and leads CHC's outcomes research initiative. In her faculty role at Stanford, she engages in collaborative university - and community-based research and participates actively in the training and supervision of pediatric residents and fellows, child psychiatry fellows and
post-doctoral psychology fellows. Her most recent research activities include a focus on (1) emergent literacy and school readiness; (2) early identification of childhood behavioral problems of childhood; and, (3) improvement of treatment outcomes for children with psychiatric and learning disorders.

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Terry Kurfess, Development and Community Relations Director
Terry Kurfess has served as the Children's Health Council's Director of Development and Community Relations since 2004. She previously served on CHC's Board of Directors for nine years, one of them as Board Chair. Terry's professional background includes publishing, advertising and training to a variety of national organizations in sales and marketing communications skills. She has also provided consulting services to for-profit and non-profit organizations around organizational development, strategic planning and building a community investment program.

Terry's extensive volunteer background includes past terms as Board President of the Junior League of Palo Alto Mid-Peninsula and the Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. She is also a former Board member of Stanford Health Services Hospital and the Menlo Park Atherton Education Foundation. Past fundraising experience includes serving on the Steering Committees for Cosby on Campus benefiting Stanford School of Education: Bloomingdale's Grand Opening benefiting the Stanford Medical Center; the opening of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital; Dreams Happen committee benefiting Rebuilding Together; and Vintage Affaire benefiting Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. In recognition of her volunteer efforts, Terry is a recipient of San Jose Magazine's "Women Making a Mark" award and the Stanford Club Award.

Terry is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Silicon Valley and the Junior League of Palo Alto Mid-Peninsula. She has a bachelor's degree in English and Italian and a master's degree in Education (with a Standard Secondary Teaching Credential) from Stanford University.

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Tom McPherson, Client Services Director
Tom McPherson has been with the Children's Health Council for eight years. He previously spent 13 years at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, employed in Stanford University's Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Department where he coordinated the Pediatric Eating Disorders Program. Other experience includes two years at Ming Quong as supervisor of the senior adolescent residential treatment unit; two years at Oddfellows/Rebekah Children's Home as a milieu therapist for the latency age unit; two years at the Devereaux Foundation (Devon, Pennsylvania) as assistant manager of the adults with autism residential treatment unit; and two years at Norristown State Hospital (Norristown, Pennsylvania) as a psychiatric technician with the admissions unit.

Tom received a bachelor's degree in Psychology and English and a master's degree in Counseling from the University of Pennsylvania.

Anne B. Moses, Executive Director
Anne Moses joins CHC after a career in health care services and executive coaching and consulting. She is recognized for the contributions she made during 22 years with the Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System, where she served in various leadership roles, including Public Health Director, Finance Director and Deputy Director of the HHS. Marketing and communications, fundraising and strategic planning were part of her responsibilities. In her time at the Valley Health and Hospital System she worked to bring interdisciplinary services to at-risk students in the public schools. During her tenure there the public hospital became known as “the single most important health care resource in the Valley,” according to the Mercury News.

Anne has also spent eight years as an executive coach and management consultant, working primarily for clients in the nonprofit sector. These included, among others, The Santa Clara Family Health Plan, Alameda Alliance for Health, Monterey County and Asian Americans for Community Involvement and the Counties of Monterey and San Joaquin. Her coaching practice specialized in team building and leadership development.

Anne received her BA, MBA and MSW from the University of Chicago, where she was the university ombudsman and did graduate research on the care of children and juvenile justice. She has been certified as a Professional Coach by the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara.

Carol Roccuzzo, Human Resources Director
Chief Compliance Officer
Carol Roccuzzo has served as the Children's Health Council's Human Resources Director since 2001. She previously worked at Oracle Corporation in Human Resources and at Exponent (Failure Analysis Associates), as well as with several professional services firms. Carol has an MBA from Arizona State University and a BA from Mount Holyoke College, as well as two years of law school preparation. She is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management, World at Work (a national compensation organization) and the Northern California Human Resources Association. Carol earned her C.H.C. (Certified in Health Care Compliance) designation in 2007 and is a member of the Health Care Compliance Association.

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