Advisors
![]() Chris Cox, Ph.D.
Outcomes and Evaluations Team Leader
Dr. Cox is a psychologist in the Department of Cognitive Neurology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Cox has extensive experience in neuropsychological and neuropsychiatric research. She performs yearly assessments of the cognitive and emotional status of children between the ages of two and-a-half through eighteen. |
![]() Marilyn Benoit, M.D.
Advisor
Marilyn B. Benoit, M.D. a child and adolescent psychiatrist, is the past president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). Dr. Benoit is a graduate of the Georgetown University Medical School and completed her Child Psychiatry Fellowship at the Georgetown University Medical Center, where she is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. She earned a graduate degree in Health Services, Management and Policy at the George Washington University. |
![]() Diane Daum, M.D.
Advisor
Dr. Daum is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at George Washington University’s School of Medicine and a teacher at the Baltimore-Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is the former head of the psychiatric consult service to pediatrics at Tulane University and now has a full time clinical practice in Rockville, MD. |
![]() Richard Gross, M.D.
Professional Oversight
Dr. Gross is a clinical professor of psychiatry at George Washington University’s School of Medicine and a lecturer in child psychiatry at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He is the former president of the Washington Psychiatry Society and also the former president of the Washington Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. |







