Hospitalized Children and Young Adults with Serious Illness
Board of Directors
Council of Advisors
Lili A Vasileff
President
Marie Giordano
Treasurer
Howard A. Pearson, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
Karen P. Carlson, PhD
Child Psychologist
Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
Ashford, CT
Marianne Hardart, MA, CCLS
Director, Therapeutic Recreation,
Child Life & Creative Arts Therapies Department
NYU Langone Medical Center,
New York, NY
Dolores O’Connell
Secretary
Melanie Barba
Eileen R. Gillan, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
DIviision of Hematology/Oncology
Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
Hartford, CT
Priya S. Morganstern, Esq.
Director, Hartford Program
Pro Bono Partnership, Inc.
Hartford, CT
Danna Merritt, LMSW
Social Worker
Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Detriot, MI
Miriam Goldsmith
Robert W. H. Wilkins (Woody)
Executive Director
Robin Leger, PhD, RN
Associate Professor
University of Connecticut Health Center
Farmington, CT
Ellen Good, MSEd, CCLS
Manager - Child Life
Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital
New Haven, CT
H. Willow Troy ATR-BC, CCLS, LCAT
Creative Arts Therapist
Children’s Memorial Hospital
Chicago, IL