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Leadership changes

Carleen Brunelli, PhD, MBA

Carleen Brunelli, PhD, MBA,
is the hospital's new vice president of Research Administration.¬ÝShe comes from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Texas, where she served as associate vice president for Research Administration. Brunelli will oversee the research administrative infrastructure and support Bruce Zetter, PhD, chief Scientific officer, and Voula Osganian, MD, PhD, MPH, director of the Clinical Research Program, as their respective programs continue their robust growth.

Mark Marcantano

Mark Marcantano
has been named the new vice president for Ambulatory and Network Services. He comes to Children's Hospital Boston from Albany Medical College/Albany Medical Center in New York, where he served as executive dean, senior vice president and chief operating¬Ýofficer. He started at Children's on October 4.

David DeMaso, MD

David DeMaso, MD,
has been named the new psychiatrist-in-chief, while William Beardslee, MD, who served as chief since 1995, continues as the¬Ýdepartment's academic chair. In these new roles, DeMaso will have administrative and oversight responsibility for the department's clinical, training and research activities, while Beardslee will focus on mentoring young staff, conducting research, continuing his community outreach and increasing his childhood mental health advocacy work.

In addition to his responsibilities as psychiatrist-in-chief, DeMaso will continue as director of the Office of Clinician Support, which is an innovative assistance program for employees and trainees who do clinical work with patients at Children's. Beardslee, meanwhile, has been deeply committed to developing practical, real-world approaches to the prevention of depression in families and to understanding how children do well when faced with difficult adversities such as poverty.