Board of Advisors


Herbert Chase, MD

Dr. Chase was the Associate Dean of Education for the Yale University School of Medicine from 2000 to 2006. Before joining Yale, Dr. Chase was an award-winning professor at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Elena Grigorenko, PhD

Dr. Grigorenko is associate professor in the Child Study Center and Department of Psychology at Yale University and associate professor of psychology at Moscow State University, Russia, where she teaches part time. At Yale, she is deputy director of the Yale Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise (The PACE Center). She is the co-author of Our Labeled Children, a book on the assessment and identification of learning disabilities in children.

Saylor Heidmann, MS in Education

Ms. Heidmann lectures at the Yale Child Study Center, providing instruction in and supervision of educational assessments and the identification and treatment of learning disabilities. She also serves as an adjunct faculty member and Instructional Coordinator for the Literacy Specialist Certification Program at Albert Magnus College.

James Leckman, MD

Dr. Leckman is widely regarded as one of the world’s top experts in the study of Tourette’s Syndrome. He is the Director of Research of the Yale Child Study Center and the Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine. He has authored hundreds of research papers and several books, including Tourette's Syndrome--Tics, Obsessions, Compulsions: Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Care and Pediatric Psychopharmacology: Principles and Practice.


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Sara Sparrow, PhD

Dr. Sparrow is Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist at Yale University's Child Study Center and at the Department of Psychology. She was Chief Psychologist at the Yale Child Study Center from 1975 to 2002. Dr. Sparrow is the author of more than 100 articles and chapters in the fields of psychological assessment and developmental disabilities, and is the senior author of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, one of the most widely used psychological instruments available. Her main research interests involve the assessment of adaptive behavior, reading disabilities, child neuropsychology, autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities. She was cofounder of the Journal of Child Neuropsychology and served as co-editor for five years. She recently received the career Scientist award from the American Academy of Mental Retardation.

Lawrence Vitulano, PhD

Dr. Vitulano is a clinical psychologist and associate clinical professor of psychology at the Yale School of Medicine.  He is the former chief psychologist of the State of Connecticut Department of Children and Families. He is president of the Connecticut Behavior Therapy Association and serves on boards of the American Psychological Association, Southwest Community Health Center in Bridgeport, Connecticut and the Bridgeport Council of Churches.

Sherrill Werblood, PhD

Dr. Werblood brings decades of experience in special education and psychology to the Board. She is currently an Associate Clinical Professor in Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center and a private practice clinician in Westport, CT. As part of her practice, which she established in 1979, Dr. Werblood conducts psychotherapy, evaluations and school consultations. Additionally, Dr. Werblood is a school consultant for several area school districts, performaing case, program, staff and administrative consultations.

Luis Arzubi, MS in Electrical Engineering

He is currently a General Partner of Tallwood Venture Capital, an investment management firm with a focus on the semi-conductor industry.  Before joining Tallwood, he was on the executive team at IBM, serving as the Vice President of the Microelectronics Division.