Susan Chinitz

Susan Chinitz 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, the Center for Babies, Toddlers and Families, and the Parent Infant Family Court project, all 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 an effort to integrate developmental science into Family Court practice for infants and toddlers. Dr. Chinitz is on the Board of the New York Zero to Three Network, the Community Advisory Board of the NYC Nurse Family Partnership, and has been a member of the Frontiers of Innovation initiative of the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. 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, and has provided consultation and technical assistance to practitioners from other disciplines as well as other child serving organizations and government agencies. 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.