Richard Lodish, ED.D.
President

• Dr. Richard Lodish has been principal of Sidwell Friends Lower School since 1976 and associate headmaster since 1992.  Published widely on educational matters including articles in The Washington Post and the New York Times, he holds a doctorate from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.  He previously taught in the Cleveland Public Schools, at Catholic and Tufts Universities, hosted a children's television program, and directed institutes for beginning teachers, as well as advanced leadership seminars for administrators.  He has served as consultant to the U.S. Department of Education, The World Bank, the State Department, and was an Education Policy Fellow at the Institute for Educational Leadership.  Having received a National Distinguished Principal Award from the U.S. Department of Education in 1993, he was a Fellow in Leadership Washington in 1994-95 and has been a consultant in Beijing, China, where he helped to establish a bilingual, intercultural school. He is the author of a recently-published book, A Child in the Principal's Office:  Laughing and Learning in the Schoolhouse.
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Stuart Shanker, D.Phil.
Vice President

• Stuart Shanker, D. Phil., is a Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at York University. Dr. Shanker is the Director of The Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative, at the York University, Canada. Through this research initiative, he is involved in a number of different studies looking at the processes involved in the development of language and reflective consciousness in young infants; studies in evolutionary theory involving nonhuman primates; and clinical studies designed to significantly enhance the capacities of children with various types of impairment. In addition, Dr. Shanker is Director of the Cuba-Canada Research Initiative, an international, multi-disciplinary investigation into preventative mental health funded by the International Development Research Corporation of Canada. He also served as Director of the Council for Human Development for many years and is the Past President of the Council of Early Child Development.
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Nancy Greenspan, M.A.
Secretary/Treasurer

• Nancy Greenspan, MA., is an economist and writer. She has co-authored four books on child development with her husband Stanley Greenspan. She also authored The End of the Certain World, a biography of Nobel physicist and quantum theory pioneer Max Born. She has served as a board member and officer on a number of non-profit boards, most of which are either connected to children's or environmental issues. In her community in Maryland, she is active as an environmentalist and a political strategist.
  
  When the three Greenspan children were growing up, Nancy engaged them all in Floortime. They were the first Floortime babies and she, the first Floortime mother.
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Gerry Costa, Ph.D.
Director
Developmental Psychology

• Dr. Gerard Costa is founding director of the YCS Institute for Infant and Preschool Mental Health, a training/consultation, clinical service and research institute concerned with the optimal development of infants/children, birth to six, and their families, located in East Orange, New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Temple University and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He has worked in infancy and early childhood services for over 30 years and is a former Head Start director. He has conducted consultations and trainings on infancy and early childhood mental health throughout the United States and he is a member of the Advisory Board, DIR and Graduate School Faculty of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL) in Bethesda, Maryland, with the late Dr. Stanley Greenspan and Dr. Serena Wieder. He also served as a member of the Pathways to Prevention project with the Early Head Start National Resource Center (EHS-NRC). He is currently a national consultant and trainer in the ZERO TO THREE  Coming Together Around Military Families project, training and consulting with professionals throughout the United States who are working with the families of deployed military personnel.  In 2003, the New Jersey Child Assault Prevention (CAP) Program selected him as the recipient of their annual state award in the category of Mental Health Professional for outstanding work in the prevention of child abuse. In October 2007 he was awarded the Christian Kjeldsen Champion for Children Award, given by the New Jersey Department of Human Services Child Care Advisory Council. In January 2010 he was appointed by New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine to the New Jersey Council for Young Children, a federally mandated early learning council in all 50 states. He is the author of book chapters and publications on infant mental health and has a private practice specializing in infants, children and families.

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Bernard J. Haan

Director

Cecilia Breinbauer, M.D., MPH.
Executive Director
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Public Health

• Dr. Breinbauer is the Chief Executive Director of the ICDL Graduate School and interim Director of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental & Learning Disorders, ICDL. Under the direction of Dr. Stanley Greenspan, she helped him develop the curriculum and started the ICDL Graduate School. Before joining ICDL, Dr. Breinbauer worked for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO, 2001-2005) coordinating child and adolescent health and development projects in more than 12 countries in the Latin American and Caribbean Region, and for the Inter American Development Bank (IDB, 2005-2006) evaluating early child development projects in Chile, Nicaragua and Honduras. She also worked as a consultant for UNICEF and as a child psychiatrist serving families with children with special needs, including autism, for more than 15 years. Dr. Breinbauer received her medical degree and completed her residency in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Chile, followed by a Master Degree in Public Health from George Washington University. She has published extensively in the field of early child development and developmental disorders as well as the book Youth: Choices and Changes (PAHO, 2005), that uses a developmental perspective to promote healthy behaviors in adolescence. Dr. Breinbauer is a Chilean citizen, she speaks Spanish and English fluently.

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Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D. (1941-2010)
Past President, Co-Founder

Dr. Stanley Greenspan was the past president and co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders and founding president of Zero to Three: The National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families. He was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School. As a foremost authority on clinical work with infants and young children Dr. Greenspan was a recipient of many national and international awards, including American Psychiatric Association's highest award for child psychiatry research. He is the author or editor of over forty books which have been translated into over a dozen languages.

 

Serena Wieder, Ph.D.
Past Vice President, Co-Founder

Serena Wieder, Ph.D. is the co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders. She serves on the Board of Zero to Three: The National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families and is also on the faculty of the Washington School of Psychiatry. Recognized as a leader in developmental and infant mentality she consults and trains widely to national and international programs. She is the co-author of The Child with Special Needs, Engaging Autism and Infant and Child Mental Health with Dr. Greenspan.