ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Our Advisory Committee is made up of professionals with decades of experience in providing support and treatment of children and youth in the child welfare system. They are providing key support on the design of CAP4Us and partnership building.

Angel Mendoza, MD

Founder, CAP4Us
Chief Medical Officer, NYC Administration for Children’s Services
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, NYU

John Damonti, MSW

Former President of the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation and VP of Corporate Philanthropy and Patient Assistance

Angela Diaz, MD, PhD, MPH

Dean of Global Health, Social Justice, and Human Rights Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor of Adolescent Health, Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Suchet Rao, MD

Former Medical Director of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, NYC Administration for Children’s Services
Clinical Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU

Joseph Saccoccio, MD, MPH

Former Senior VP of Medical Services for the New York Foundling and 2024 Recipient of the COCAN Award for Outstanding Service to Maltreated Children

Anthony Shih, MD, MPH

Former President and CEO of the United Hospital Fund and Executive VP of the NY Academy of Medicine

Mel Schneiderman, PhD

Co-founder of the Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection, and 2024 awardee for Lifetime Achievement from the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC)

J. Rebecca Weis, MD

Bellevue Hospital Chief of Service and Director Child Psychiatry
Co-director of NYC H + H Public Psychiatry Leadership Program

Warren Y.K Ng, MD, MPH

Medical Director Outpatient Behavioral Health NYPH-CUMCNY
Presbyterian Behavioral Health Service Line Clinical Innovation Officer

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