The professional staff consists of an interdisciplinary team including psychiatrists, clinical social workers, occupational therapists and psychiatric nurses. Participants in the program are each assigned a psychiatrist and care coordinator. Care coordinators are clinicians who provide each patient in the program with individualized treatment coordination. Patients meet weekly with a social worker and staff psychiatrist who will supervise their treatment.
Bruce L. Kagan, MD, PhD
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
Brain Research Institute at UCLA
Program Manager
Shelly Abernathy, LCSW
Intake Coordinator
Laura Twersky, LCSW
Care Coordinators
Sue Park, LCSW
Felicia Andrews, LCSW
Natalie Skipworth, LCSW
Sigall Cahn, LCSW
Yin Yoon-Rowlands, MSW
Vanessa Myrie, MSW
Debbie Cervantes, MSW
Jennifer Cumiskey, MSW
Melissa Bolivar, MSW
Program Coordinator
Gele Banzon
Nurses
Judy Toy, RN
Pauline Andan, RN
Staff Psychiatrists
Julia Davidoff, MD
Jason Jalil, MD
Ashley Coats, MD
Occupational Therapist:
Abbie Plotkins-Kleiman, OTR
