UCLArts and Healing

Board of Directors:

• Ami Belli, MD ─ Integrative medicine physician.
  

• Remo D. Belli ─ Founder and CEO, Remo, Inc.

• Devra Breslow, MA ─ Founder/Director, Art That Heals, UCLA Cancer Center/Medical Center, 1982-89; Co-founder, Society for the Arts in Healthcare

• Lucy S. Gonda, MA, BC-DMT – Board Certified Dance Movement Therapist.
  

• Elle Nicolaï – Artist; Founder and Director of the Salamander Fund. 

• John Weeks – Publisher/Editor, The Integrator Blog.

• Lonnie K. Zeltzer, MD – Board Member and Medical Director of Whole Child LA; Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Program Advisors:

• Camille Ameen, Certified Council Trainer; Co-Founder, Inside Out Community Arts.
  

• Anna Araujo, Chief Professional Officer, Boys & Girls Clubs of East Los Angeles.

• Rachel Ballon, PhD, MFT – Licensed psychotherapist and international writing consultant, screenwriter, poetry therapist, and author.

• Ronald M. Borczon, MT-BC, MM ─ Founder and Director of the Department of Music Therapy at California State University, Northridge; Past President of the National Association of Music Therapy, Western Region.

• Robert Carroll, MD ─ Vice President, National Association for Poetry Therapy and Program Chair of the Southern California region; on UCLA clinical faculty. 

• Kathy Cass, MA, BC-DMT, NCC, CYT ─ Founder, Chance to Dance

• Anne Coscarelli, PhD ─ Director, Simms/Mann ─ UCLA Center for Integrative Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine; Clinical Professor, Department of Psychology, UCLA.

• Laura A. Coverson, MS ─ Producer, ABC News.

• Helen G. Dolas, MS, MT-BC, Founder and Director, Arts and Services for Disabled, Inc., Long Beach, CA.

• Julia Forth, Program Marketing Director, Cancer Support Community Benjamin Center, West Los Angeles

• Dale Franzen ─ Founder and Artistic Director, The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage & The Edye Second Space at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center.
  

• Judy Gantz, MA, CMA ─ Founder and Director of the Center of Movement Education and Research.

• Trudy Goodman ─ Founder and Director of InsightLA; Co-Founder, Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, Growing Spirit, and the Center for Mindfulness and Psychotherapy.

• Susan Kaiser Greenland, JD ─ Co-Founder and Executive Director, InnerKids; clinical team member of UCLA Pediatric Pain Program at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital.

• Mary L. Hardy, MD ─ Medical Director, Simms/Mann ─ UCLA Center for Integrative Medicine; Associate Physician, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; licensed physician Board Certified in Internal Medicine; and artist.

• Mimi Lind, LCSW ─ Director of Mental Health Services, Venice Family Clinic.

• Debra Linesch PhD, LMFT, ATR-BC ─ Chair of the Graduate Department of Marital and Family Therapy with Specialized Training in Clinical Art Therapy at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

• Lora Wilson Mau, MA, R-DMT – President, Southern California Chapter of the American Dance Therapy Association; Lecturer at the California State University Long Beach Department of Dance.

• Julia Miele – Executive Director, YWCA Santa Monica / Westside.

• Daniel Poston, JD, MBA  –  Assistant Dean for Masters Programs, Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington

• Jean-Louis Rodrigue – American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT) certified teacher; Adjunct Assistant Professor in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
  

• Beth Sternlieb, BFA ─ Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher; clinical team member of UCLA Pediatric Pain Program at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital.

• Christine Stevens, MSW, MT-BC, MA ─ Founder of UpBeat Drum Circles.
  

• Raffi Tachdjian, MD, MPH ─ Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

• Karen L. Timko ─ Coordinator of Primary Intervention and Elementary School Counseling for the Los Angeles Unified School District.

• Craig Woodson, PhD ─ Owner of Ethnomusic, Inc.; Director and Author of Roots of Rhythm for the Percussion Marketing Council; President, Drums of Humanity.

• Veronica Zador, E-RYT 500 ─ Past President of the International Association of Yoga Therapists,  past Vice Chair of Yoga Alliance, immediate past Chair of the Yoga Alliance Standards Committee and Chair of the Subcommittees for Prenatal Yoga and Yoga for Children.

• Jonathan Zeichner ─ Executive Director, A Place Called Home; Former Founding Executive Director, Inside Out Community Arts.