Meet Our Team

The following faculty and staff members make up the Pediatric Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program.

Vilma Gabbay, MD, MS
Chief, Pediatric Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
One of the nation's leading experts on pediatric mood disorders, Dr. Gabbay is also a renowned researcher with a focus on the neurological and immunological mechanisms that contribute to the development and maintenance of mood disorders in youth.

Barbara J. Coffey, MD, MS
Chief, Tics and Tourette’s Clinical and Research Program
Professor of Psychiatry

Dorothy E. Grice, MD
Chief, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders Program
Professor of Psychiatry

Matthew Hopperstad, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Eyal Shemesh, MD
Chief, Division of Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry

Emily Stern, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Guoxin Kang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Ariz Rojas, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Amy Johnson, BA
Clinical Research Coordinator

Ana Vallejo, BA
Clinical Research Coordinator

Resham Gellatly, BA
Clinical Research Coordinator

Laura Ibanez-Gomez, MA
Clinical Research Coordinator