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.
Thomas Barnes
Tom Barnes is Chairman of the Board of the Barnes Group, Inc., a diversified global manufacturer and logistical services company focused on providing precision component manufacturing and operating service support. Outside Barnes Group, Tom is a...
Chairman of the Board of the Barnes Group, Inc.
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...
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...
Community Leader
Jennifer Carroll
Jennifer Carroll is the Executive Director of the Connecticut Family Support Network (CTFSN), a statewide advocacy organization providing direct support and broad advocacy to families raising children with disabilities and special health care...
Executive Director of the Connecticut Family Support Network
George A. Coleman
George Coleman recently retired from his position as Deputy Commissioner of Education. He previously served as associate commissioner of the Division of Teaching and Learning Programs and Services and joined the State Department of Education in...
Community Leader
Kevin E. Flaherty
Kevin Flaherty is a Senior Vice President with Webster Bank in in Hartford and has served previously as Market President of Sovereign Bank in Hartford. He is on the board of directors of the CT Children's Medical Center Foundation and United Way...
Senior Vice President, Webster Bank
CHDI Board Treasurer
Brian Forsyth, MB, ChB, FRCP(C )
Dr. 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...
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine
Margaret Grey, DrPH, RN, FAAN
Dr. Margaret 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...
Dean, Yale School of Nursing
Kevin W. Kelly
Kevin 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...
President & CEO, Medical Risk Management LLC
CFC Board Treasurer
Barbara McGrath
Barbara McGrath is currently the Executive 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...
Executive Director, Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative
Judith Meyers, PhD
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...
President & CEO
Child Health and Development Institute; Children's Fund of Connecticut
Juan Salazar, MD
Dr. Juan Salazar is Associate Professor in Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut’s Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and Director of the Pediatric and Youth HIV Program at the Connecticut Children’s...
Head, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, CT Children's Medical Center
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...
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...
General Counsel, Director of Government Relations, CT Children's Medical Center
CHDI and CFC Board Secretary
Robert L. Trestman, PhD, MD
Dr. Robert Trestman 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...
Professor of Medicine & Psychiatry, Executive Director, Correctional Managed Health Care, University of Connecticut Health Center
Kenneth Spiegelman, MD
Ken Spiegelman is a practicing pediatrician in Manchester, CT and is also Medical Director of Post Graduate Medical Education at Connecticut Children's Medical Center, He serves as a medical consultant to Manchester CT Head Start Program...
Private Practice Pediatrician
Fred R. Volkmar, MD
Dr. Fred Volkmar 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 Haven...
Director, Yale Child Study Center
CHDI Board Chair, CFC 1st Vice Chair
