Your Supportive Team of Experts & Innovators
Staff
- Led by the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, our team of clinical, behavioral, and community-based health professionals work directly with young people ages 12-25 to make sure they have the resources to thrive, while our training and capacity building team works at a national scale to provide education, best practices, and hands-on support to schools, community-based organizations, and other partners meeting the everchanging needs of adolescents and young adults.
- In partnership with the Innovation Studio, which inspires, incubates, and accelerates innovative processes and technologies that improve the health of patients and their families. This includes many programs focused on care model innovation, clinical education and simulation, connected care, and accelerators like KidsX.
Sarah Cohen, BA
Innovation Strategist and Coach
Mona Desai, MPH
Project Director and Coach
Belen Gonzalez
Logistics Lead
Frances LaSalle-Castro, MPH
Project Advisor and Coach
Efe M. Oghoghome, MPH, CHES®
Health Communications Lead
Sophia Pennella, MPH
Project Manager and Coach
Mia Humphreys Pozo, MSW
Associate Project Director and Coach
Janet Rivera, BA
Evaluation and Learning Lead
Deepa Shah, MHA
Innovation Manager
National Advisory Board
Barbara Ball, PhD
Research Scientist at the Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing at The University of Texas at Austin
Trese Flowers, DPA (c), MPH, ICPS
Program Manager at Morehouse School of Medicine
Rebecca Gudeman, JD, MPA
Senior Director of Health at the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL)
Keith Nathaniel, EdD
4-H Youth Development Advisor at University of California
Cody Ragonese, MPH
Associate Director of Programs at Equimundo
Eunetra Rutledge, BA
Director of Distribution at Peer Health Exchange
Subject Matter Experts
Claudia Borzutzky, MD
Division Chief at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Leslie Clark, PhD
Director of Intervention Science at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Bridgid Mariko Conn, PhD, ABPP
Assistant Professor and Licensed Psychologist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Alejandra Cortez, LCSW
Program Manager at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Miguel Martinez, MSW, MPH
Senior Program Manager at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Adriana Romero-Espinoza, MPH
Program Supervisor at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Leslie Rosenthal, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Attending Physician at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Arlene Schneir, MPH
Division Administrator at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles