Faculty and Staff Profiles
Barbara Bentley PsyD MS
Dr. Bentley is a clinical psychologist who provides assessment and consultation for children with developmental and/or behavioral concerns. She provides clinical services for the Developmental Consultation, Autism and Social Communication, High Risk Infant Follow Up, Children’s Hearing Center Cochlear Implant Program, and the Santa Cruz County FIRST 5 Foster Care Programs. She also has training as a medical educator.
Melissa Berduzco
Mrs. Berduzco has been an administrative assistant for 13 years. She has worked with numerous Santa Clara county agencies that provide Mental Health services for Children 0-18 years of age. She is now providing Administrative support for the Development-Behavior Pediatrics.
Jannah Chavez
Ms. Chavez has been working for LPCH for over five years. She uses her experience to provide excellent customer service and provides Administrative support to clinical operations in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics.
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.
Maria Eleana DeAnda PhD
Dr. DeAnda is a clinical psychologist. She is bilingual in Spanish. She conducts developmental assesments of young children and also provides parent education about Autism Spectrum Disorders in Spanish.
Anne DeBattista MSN, CPNP, CPMHS
Anne DeBattista is a nurse practitioner and the program manager of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. She received her Masters of Science degree and completed the Pediatric and School Health Nurse Practitioner programs at University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She is currently enrolled in a PhD program at UCSF. Anne has two national board certifications through the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board, in Pediatrics, and in Mental-Behavioral Health. Anne is an active participant in national organizations; she is the Chair of the Nurse Practitioner Special Interest (SIG) Group for the Society of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics and Co-chair of the Developmental Behavioral Mental Health SIG for the National Association for Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.
Heidi M. Feldman MD PhD
Dr. Feldman holds the Ballinger-Swindells Endowed Professorship on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. She serves as the Chief of this Section and Program Director for the Fellowship in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics. Her CV is available at: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neonatology/researcher/Heidi_Feldman/
Here is the Dr. Feldman's presentation video 'Redesigning Health Care For Children': http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videoInfo.php?videoid=46284
Nidia Floyd
Ms. Floyd provides Administrative and clinical support to Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics. She joined LPCH in 2001 and worked on a longitudinal study of outcomes of preterm birth called, the Preemie Project. She then continued to work on a service project entitled Watch Me Grow Program, funded by First 5 San Mateo. Her current responsibilities include assistance to the Neonatal Network studies and support for on-going research in DBP.
Cheryl Goldfarb-Greenwood, RNC, MN, CNS
Ms. Goldfarb-Greenwood is a Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist who serves as the Program Coordinator for Developmental Consultation, Autism and Social Communication, and Preemie Graduate Services. 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. Ms. Goldfarb-Greenwood is involved in community outreach, advocacy, parent and professional education.
Lynne C. Huffman MD
Dr. Huffman is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Teaching 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.
For more information please visit: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neonatology/researcher/Lynne_Huffman/
Casey Krueger PhD
Dr. Krueger is a clinical psychologist who conducts developmental and neuropsychological assessments for young children. Research interests include alterations in executive functioning and neurodevelopmental outcomes of children with metabolic and mitochondrial disorders.
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. http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/irene_Loe
Colleen Marcisz
Ms Marcisz joined the Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics team as Nurse Coordinator for the High Risk Infant Follow-up Program after many years as a neonatal nurse at LPCH.
Judith Rieser
Ms. Reiser has been employed by Stanford Hospital and LPCH clinics since 2004, she is a retired Surgical Technologist, provides administrative support for the enitre Developmental/Behavioral Clinic and High Risk Infant Follow-up Clinic staff. She is dedicated to developing and maintaining quality patient relations.
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.
Brian Tang MD
Dr. Tang is a developmental-behavioral pediatrician who completed his fellowship training in the Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine in 2011. He is actively involved with the CPQCC-CCS HRIF QCI project http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Brian_Tang/ and serves on it's Executive Committee.
Hali Weiss MD
Dr. Weiss is a neonatologist who works in the High-Risk Infant Follow-Up Clinic.
Other physicians Participating in High Risk Infant Follow-up
Santa Cruz (Dominican)/Watsonville Community Hospitals:
- Magdy Ismail, MD
- Antonios Issa, MD
- Edward McNamara, MD
Salinas Valley Memorial:
- Robert Castro, MD
- Greg Glasscock, MD
- Carl Yeager, MD
El Camino Hospital:
- Marian Adams, MD
- Dharsi Sivakumar, MD
Washington Special Care Nursery
- Maha Malak-Hanna, MD
Other clinicians in the clinical programs
- Physical Therapists
- Eilish Byrne PT, DSc, PCS
- Karen Kaufman, MS PT
- Chris Rowell, MS PT
- Debbie Tong, MS PT
- Occupational Therapists
- Kelly Andrasik OTR/L, MOT
- Maria Bonsall, BLS, OTR
- Allison Freccero, BLS, OTR
- Janis Kitsuwa-Lowe, OTRL
- Marianna Thorn, OTRL
- Speech Language Pathologists
- Judy Henderson, MA, CCC-SLP
- Maria Morgan, MA, CCC-SLP
- Amy Meyer, MA, CCC-SLP
- Social Workers
- Debbi Friedman, MSW
- Chris O’Halloran, MSW, PhD
