Columbia Leadership

Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD

Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD is Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD, is the Director of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI), and Columbia University;  Co-Director of both the NIMH T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship for Translational Research in Child Psychiatric Disorders and the Whitaker Scholar Program in Developmental Neuropsychiatry at NYSPI/Columbia University Medical Center and Ruane Professor for The Implementation of Science for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at Columbia University Medical Center.

Laura Mufson, PhD

Associate Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Laura Mufson is Associate Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute. 

Laura Mufson, PhD, is Associate Director of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and co-director of the Office of Clinical Psychology at CUMC. She is also director of Clinical Psychology and unit chief of the Children’s Day Unit at New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI). She is director of Training for the Child Track of the APA–Accredited Predoctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology and a faculty member of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry’s NIMH T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC).

Lourival Baptista-Neto, MD

Vice Chair for Clinical Services, Department of Psychiatry

Dr. Baptista-Neto is the Vice Chair for Clinical Services in the Department of Psychiatry and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University. 

 

Meghan Tomb, PhD

Clinical Director, Promise Project

Dr. Meghan Tomb is a neuropsychologist and child and adolescent psychologist in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University and Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian.

Dr. Meghan Tomb is a neuropsychologist and child and adolescent psychologist in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University and Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian.

Dr. Tomb serves as Clinical Director of Promise Project and specializes in comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations of children and young adults.

Dr. Tomb has been with Promise since the beginning of Promise as the program’s first Post-Doctoral Fellow. She became Clinical Director in 2019 where she supervises all aspects of the clinical program, including the Education Coordination and Promise’s Post-Doctoral Fellowship training program. Her work includes providing ongoing recommendations and consultation for families and educators in developing and implementing appropriate academic, social, and behavioral interventions for children who are evaluated.

WARREN NG, MD

Medical Director of Outpatient Behavioral Health, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Warren Ng is the Medical Director of Outpatient Behavioral Health and the Director of Clinical Services for the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital.

Dr. Warren Ng is the Medical Director of Outpatient Behavioral Health and the Director of Clinical Services for the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital.

Dr. Ng is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist with an interest in HIV, public psychiatry, and family issues. He is the Director of the Special Needs Clinic, a family based mental health program at New York Presbyterian Hospital- Columbia University Medical Center. He is also the Co-Director of the Family Care Center at Harlem Hospital, a pediatric HIV program. He is also the staff psychiatrist for a skilled nursing facility for HIV infected children and adolescents, Incarnation Children's Center, and an outpatient clinic for behaviorally infected youth, Project Stay.

 

Amy Margolis, PhD

Principal Investigator, Promise Project

Dr. Amy Margolis' passion for research and desire to understand the mechanisms that lead to change through treatment has led her to join the Center for Developmental Neuropsychiatry to research the biological bases of learning disabilities.

Dr. Amy Margolis' passion for research and desire to understand the mechanisms that lead to change through treatment has led her to join Dr. Bradley S. Peterson at the Center for Developmental Neuropsychiatry to research the biological bases of learning disabilities.

Dr. Margolis' area of research has focused on neural correlates of intelligence and how discrepancies between abilities arise in individuals. Dr. Margolis is Co-Principal Investigator of the Promise at Columbia research studies aimed at understanding the neural correlates of learning disabilities.

Dr. Margolis received her Ph.D. in Applied Educational Psychology: School Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2000.

    

 

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