Faculty and Staff Profiles
Barbara Bentley PsyD MS
Dr. Bentley is a clinical psychologist affiliated with Children’s Health Council. She has interests in the follow-up of high risk infants and feeding disorders in children. She is also an accomplished educator.
Sara Cueva MD
Dr. Cueva is a general pediatrician and clinical education in the Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine.
Lucy Crain MD MPH
Dr. Crain is a developmental-behavioral pediatrician. She served as Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF from 1988 – 2003. She also founded and directed the UCSF Pediatric Disabilities and Down Syndrome Clinic at UCSF in 1983. Since 2004, she has served as a pediatrician in Developmental Medicine at the Mary L Johnson Clinic. She is a well-known advocate of children’s health care and has served as a Commissioner for First Five San Francisco, a charter member of the Steering Committee of the CA Medical Home Project, and Past Chair of the Task Force on Children with Special Health Care Needs of the American Academy of Pediatrics, California chapter. She is known nationally as well as internationally for her work in developmental medicine. She continues to serve as the Course Director for a nationally prominent CME course of Developmental Disabilities.
Alexis Davis MD
Dr. Davis is a neonatologist who is currently a research fellow and clinician in high risk infant follow-up.
Maria Eleana DeAnda PhD
Dr. DeAnda is a clinical psychologist. She is bilingual in Spanish
Anne DeBattista MSN CRNP
Anne DeBattista is a nurse practitioner and manager of the Mary L. Johnson Developmental & Behavioral Unit at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. She received her MSN at University of California San Francisco where she completed the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and School Nurse Practitioner programs. She is the Project Director of the Watch Me Grow: Special Needs Project funded by First 5 San Mateo.
Veronica Ellis
Ms Ellis obtains authorizations for clinical visits. She speaks Spanish and English.
Heidi M. Feldman MD PhD
Dr. Feldman serves as the Chief of this Section. Her CV is available at http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/pediatrics/frdActionServlet?choiceId=facProfile&fid=7783
Nidia Floyd
Ms Floyd provides administrative support to the Watch Me Grow project and to clinical operations. She speaks Spanish and English.
Lorraine Frank-Zamora
Ms Zamora receives clinical intakes and schedules patients. She has been with Lucile S. Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford since 1989, with over 25 year medical field experience. She is also bilingual (English-Spanish).
Amanda Garcia
Working from the main Academic Office, Amanda Garcia provides support to the Section Chief and their staff.
Cheryl Greenwood Goldfarb MSN
Ms. Greenwood Goldfarb is a Clinical Nurse Specialist who serves as the Coordinator for Developmental Consultation and Autism and Social Communication. She also has a major role in the Watch Me Grow project, participating on the Child Study Team in South San Francisco and Coordinating the Watch Me Grow Interdisciplinary Collaborative.
Sheryl Goldstein BSN
Ms. Goldstein serves as the Coordinator for the High Risk Infant Follow-Up program.
Lynne C. Huffman MD
Dr. Huffman is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Research Line at Stanford University. She is in General Pediatrics as well as the section of Developmental Medicine. She serves as the Director of Outcomes Measurement and Research at the Children’s Health Council. She is very active in the Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Residency Rotation.
Jean Kohn MD
Dr. Kohn received her MD degree from the University of Chicago and her MPH degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, in Maternal and Child Health. She is board-certified in Pediatrics and board eligible in Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Activities have included pediatric practice, coordination of a child prosthetic clinic at Stanford, and medical advisor to the Rehabilitation Engineering Center at Stanford. For California Children Services, she has been a consultant to a number of areas, including San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Red Bluff and Modesto. Her interest in children with disabilities led to several studies of patients with Cerebral Palsy, including long term outcomes. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. Currently, in addition to the Developmental and Behavioral Unit, she continues to act as pediatric consultant to CCS in San Mateo.
Irene M. Loe MD
Irene Loe is a board-certified developmental-behavioral pediatrician. Her past research projects have included the use of oculomotor paradigms and functional magnetic resonance imaging to study the neurobiological basis of executive function deficits in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Current research interests will focus on executive function deficits, attention and learning difficulties, and behavior problems in children at risk of these problems due to prematurity. She is also involved with community outreach, including education on developmental screening in primary care.
Nicholas St John PhD
Dr. St. John is a psychologist who works in the NICU and other inpatient settings. His primary interest is Infant Mental Health. He provides consultations for infant behavior and parental adjustment.
Anne Shacal
Ms. Shacal is an educator with interest in early child development and behavior.
Trenna Sutcliffe MD
Dr. Sutcliffe is a developmental-behavioral pediatrician. She works in the High Risk Infant Follow-up Program and the Developmental Consultation Program. She has particular expertise is the management of Cerebral Palsy. She also directs the pediatric residency rotation in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.
Hali Weiss MD
Dr. Weiss is a neonatologist who works in the High-Risk Infant Follow-Up Clinic.
Robert Zamora
Mr. Zamora provides administrative support to the clinical operations. He speaks Spanish and English.
Other physicians
Santa Cruz (Dominican)/Watsonville Community Hospitals:
- Magdy Ismail, MD
Antonios Issa, MD
Edward McNamara, MD
Salinas Valley Memorial:
- David Kasting, MD
El Camino Hospital:
- Marian Adams, MD
Dharsi Sivakumar, MD
Washington Special Care Nursery
- Maha Malak-Hanna, MD
Dushyant Oza, MD
Other clinicians in the clinical programs
- Physical Therapists
- Eilish Byrne
- Amanda McAloon
- Christine Rowell
- Debbie Tong
- Occupational Therapists
- Janis Kitsuva-Lowe
- Heather McKersie
- Marianna Thorn
- Annette Van Boldrik
- Speech Language Pathologists
- Denise Gray
- Judy Henderson
- Maria Morgan
- Amy Meyer
- Social Workers
- De Etta Barnhardt
- Chris O’Halloran
- Carole Press
