Our Team

Susan Chinitz, PsyD is a psychologist with specialties in the areas of infant mental health and developmental disabilities in infancy and early childhood. She is the former Director of the Early Childhood Center and the Center for Babies, Toddlers and Families, therapeutic programs for children birth to five years of age at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she was a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and the Patricia T. and Charles S. Raizen Distinguished Scholar in Pediatrics. Dr. Chinitz is currently affiliated with the Center for Court Innovation where she is spearheading the Strong Starts Court Initiative, an effort to integrate developmental science into Family Court practice for infants and toddlers. She is also a consultant to the New York Center for Child Development, and Clinical Co-Director of the Training and Technical Assistance Center for the NYC Early Childhood Mental Health Network. Dr. Chinitz is on the Board of the New York Zero to Three Network and the Community Advisory Board of the NYC Nurse Family Partnership and was previously on the Local Coordinating Council for the NYC Early Intervention Program. She has developed models of infant mental health service provision and developmental supports for children in primary pediatrics, preschool and childcare programs, and within the child welfare system. She has received the ACS Commissioner’s Child Advocacy Award, Women of Achievement Award from the Bronx Women’s Bar Association, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University.