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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

Nicole Carta, MBA

  • Principal, Cultivate:Good

  • Professor, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University

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