The Center for Youth Mental Health honors the vision, values, and legacies of Herbert Pardes, MD, who died on April 30, 2024, and David Shaffer, MD, who died on October 15, 2023. Together, Drs. Pardes and Shaffer inspired us to devote our collective expertise and experience to the ever-changing mental health challenges and needs of young people. They are sorely missed, and their work remains at the forefront of our efforts to support the well-being of children, adolescents, and young adults.
Meet our team
The Center for Youth Mental Health is a program whose mission is to advance our understanding of and treatments for youth with disabling anxiety and other mental health conditions. Supported by philanthropy, this program leverages the clinical and research faculty at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC)/New York State Psychiatric Institute, Weill Cornell Medical Center, and NewYork-Presbyterian, regularly disseminating relevant, fundamental, and innovative educational resources and information to patients and their families as well as fellow healthcare professionals and educators.
![Meet the CYMH team Meet the CYMH team](/sites/default/files/acquiadam/2024-03/CYMH-Our-Team-hero-desktop-final5.webp)
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Senior Faculty
With top doctors from Columbia and Weill Cornell Universities
![Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD](/sites/default/files/acquiadam/2024-03/cymh-team-jeremy-vanderwheele-1x1.webp)
Vice Chair, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
In memoriam
![Herbert Pardes, MD and David Shaffer, MD Herbert Pardes, MD and David Shaffer, MD](/sites/default/files/acquiadam/2024-05/HerberPardes-DavidShaffer-Memoriam-v3.webp)
Your support changes lives
Your donation will help young people and their families transform their lives, while helping us research and develop new treatments to reach even more youth affected by mental health issues.
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