Board Of Directors
The CHDI Board of Directors is chaired by Fred Volkmar, M.D., the Director of the Yale Child Study Center. Other members include pediatricians, community and business leaders, state agency representatives, and members of academia.
Michael Apkon
Michael Apkon, MBA, MD, PhD is the Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He was previously the Vice President and Executive Director for the Children’s Hospital Division at Yale-New Haven Hospital where...
Senior VP, Medical Affairs, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Fernando Betancourt
Fernando Betancourt is an insurance agent at Torres Insurance. He was previously the Executive Director for the State of Connecticut Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission where he developed and recommended public policy for the Latino and P...
Insurance Agent, Torres Insurance
Paula B. Burris
Paula Burris has a background in finance and marketing. She worked in various managerial positions at General Electric in CT, KY and WI. She has comprehensive experience in strategic development, positioning and brand-building. She presently is o...
Community Leader
George A. Coleman
George A. Coleman was named Deputy Commissioner of Education by the State Board of Education on May 2, 2007; after having served as Interim Commissioner of Education from August 14, 2006 through April 13, 2007. Mr. Coleman, who had previously serv...
Deputy Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Education
Paul H. Dworkin
Dr. Dworkin is Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. He received his B.A. from Rutgers University, his M.D. from the Johns...
Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Connecticut Children's Medical Center
Kevin E. Flaherty
Kevin Flaherty is a retired executive from the banking industry. He most recently was Senior Vice President at Sovereign Bank in Hartford. He is on the board of directors of the CT Children's Medical Center Foundation and United Way of Central Con...
Community Leader
Brian Forsyth
Brian Forsyth is Professor of Pediatrics and Yale Child Study Center at Yale University. Dr Forsyth received his medical degree from Glasgow University, Scotland and did his residency training in Montreal, Canada before joining Yale as a Robert Wo...
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine
Margaret Grey
Dr. Grey is the Dean and Annie Goodrich Professor at the Yale University School of Nursing. She has been at Yale since January of 1993; prior to assuming the Deanship on September 1, 2005, she served as Associate Dean for Scholarly Affairs. She wa...
Dean, Yale School of Nursing
Kevin W. Kelly
Mr. Kelly has spent over 23 years in the healthcare and insurance industry. He has been involved in operational/management and consulting activities spanning insurance services, physician group practice development, managed care, hospital administ...
President & CEO, Medical Risk Management LLC
CFC Board Treasurer
Robert K. Killian, Jr.
Judge Killian has served as Judge of Probate Court for the District of Hartford since 1984. From April, 1997 to April, 1999, he served as Chief Judge and President Judge of the Connecticut Probate Assembly. He is a member of the National Academy o...
Judge, Court of Probate, District of Hartford
Barbara McGrath
Barbara is currently the Assistant Director of the Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative (CULI), a nonprofit organization located on the campus of the University of Connecticut School of Law. Barbara also provides strategic planning assistance and bo...
Assistant Director, Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative
CHDI Board Treasurer
Judith Meyers
Judith Meyers, a clinical and community psychologist, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Children’s Fund of Connecticut, a public charitable foundation, and its subsidiary, the Child Health and Development Institute of Connectic...
President & CEO
Child Health and Development Institute; Children's Fund of Connecticut
Keith Stevenson
Keith Stevenson is a retired health insurance executive. He served in senior management positions at both Aetna and the Hartford Financial Services Group, where he was involved in policy, product development and acquisitions. He also worked for th...
Community Leader
CFC Board Chair
Ann Taylor
Ann Taylor is the General Counsel at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. She is responsible for legal affairs, government relations, corporate compliance and risk management.
Prior to joining the Medical Center in March of 2000, she se...
General Counsel, Director of Government Relations, CT Children's Medical Center
CHDI and CFC Board Secretary
Robert L. Trestman
Robert L. Trestman PhD MD is Executive Director of the University of Connecticut Health Center’s Correctional Managed Health Care, Interim Co-Director of the UConn Center for Public Health and Health Policy, and is a Professor of Medicine and Ps...
Professor of Medicine & Psychiatry, Executive Director, Correctional Managed Health Care, University of Connecticut Health Center
Fred Volkmar
Fred R. Volkmar M.D., is the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology and Director at the Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine. He also serves as the Chief of Child Psychiatry at Yale New Ha...
Director, Yale Child Study Center
CHDI Board Chair
