Who We Are:

We are parents concerned with the state of psychiatric drug use by pediatricians in the US today. Mental health is at a crossroads now. We believe that parent-to-parent communication will lead to an improvement of the understanding and use of psychotropic drugs by children in the US, and perhaps worldwide.

Marian Scheuer Sofaer, (CEO) is an attorney and founder of the site. She has worked as an Assistant Attorney General of the New York State Department of Law and an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York and in private practice. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Columbia Law School.

Preeva Tramiel, VP is a writer, researcher, fundraiser and public relations specialist who has worked in magazine publishing, local community building, and economic research. She graduated from Barnard College with a degree in economics.

Betsy Levy, Marketing, is a Bay Area consultant. She founded Operations Control Systems (now Tidal Software), a system software company located in Palo Alto, and was its chairman for 15 years before selling her interest in the company. She has extensive experience with IBM Canada and Hewlett-Packard, and was named Silicon Valley woman Entrepreneur of the Year in 1989.

Raymond Fink, Ph.D., Advisor, was a full-time faculty member of New York Medical College from 1978 through 2000 and has held the titles of Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine, Professor of Health Services Management and Policy and Director of Health Services Research. He was a founder and organizer of the college's Graduate School of Health Sciences. He has published more than 60 articles in professional journals in a broad range of topics including screening for breast cancer, multiphasic screening, insuring for mental health and substance abuse, primary care physician prescribing practices, health care for low income groups, public attitudes toward AIDS, and the use of data for local statistical estimation.

Kiki Chang, M.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is Director of the Pediatric Mood Disorders Clinic, Division of Child Psychiatry and Child Development. He is a member of the Northern California Regional Organization of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. His research focuses on pediatric bipolar disorder, and he is on the Professional Advisory Board of the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation. Dr. Chang also teaches the Psychopharmacology course for child psychiatry residents at Stanford. He serves as a medical advisor to WhatMeds.com.

Cathleen Moran Schmonsees R.N., Technical Writer, is a Bay Area freelancer specializing in research, interviews, and editing technical reports. She has worked extensively with physically challenged, mentally ill, and pediatric patients. Cathleen received her nursing education at De Anza College and holds a degree in French from Wayne State University.