About Us

Leadership

Board of Directors

• Bren Leisure, Chair
  
• Robert A. Keller, Vice Chair
  
• Andrew P. Valentine, Secretary
  
• Lisa Mooring and Lawrence M. Schwab, Treasurers
  
• Mark Berryman, CPA
  
• Elizabeth Dumanian, M.S.W.
  
• Rita deSales French, Ph.D.
• Mark T. Gates, Jr.
• Ross A. Jaffe, M.D.
  
• Mary Johnson
  
• Suzanne Killea
  
• Michèle Kirsch
• John Kriewall
  
• Kelly Look, M.D.
  
• James Otieno
• Margot Parker
• Naomi Chavez Peters
  
• Raymond Tolles
• Rosalie Whitlock, Ph.D.
  
• Quin Whitman
  
• Katherine Amerson, Ex Officio, Auxiliary President
• Gina Jorasch, Ex Officio, Summer Symphony Co-Chair

Staff

• Rosalie Whitlock, Ph.D., Executive Director
• Andrew T. Cope, Director of Advancement
• Glen Elliott, PhD, MD,Chief Psychiatrist, Interim Clinical Director
• Bruce G. Fielding, Jr., CFO, Administration and Finance Director
• Karen Grites MS, Educational Services Director
  
• Chris Harris , MEd, Esther B. Clark School Director
• Lynne Huffman, MD, Outcomes Measurement and Research Director
• Tom McPherson MA, Client Services Director
• Carol Roccuzzo MBA, CHC Human Resources Director,
  Chief Compliance Officer

Rosalie Whitlock, Ph.D., Executive Director
Rosalie Whitlock joined Children’s Health Council (CHC) as Executive Director in August of 2009 after serving nine years on CHC’s Board of Directors--two of those years as Chairman.

In her 25+ years’ experience, Dr. Whitlock has become a leader in learning. As Head of Charles Armstrong School for 11 years, she led the development of cutting-edge curriculum to help kids succeed based on their strengths. Dr. Whitlock’s experience has given her an intimate understanding of parents’ concerns and the impact on the whole family when a child struggles with learning differences, anxiety, ADHD or Asperger’s.

Currently serving on the International Dyslexia Association’s Board of Directors, Dr. Whitlock is also a founding and current Board member of Parent’s Education Network (PEN).

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Andrew T. Cope, Director of Advancement
Andrew serves as the Director of Advancement, leading CHC’s programs in development, marketing, and communications. He has been working in higher education and health care advancement since 1993. Prior to CHC, Andrew worked for Kenyon College, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health.

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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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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

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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