Suzanne Bronheim, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

• B.A., Brandeis University, 1969
• M.A., University of Chicago, 1970
• Ph.D., Catholic University of America, 1982

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Suzanne M. Bronheim, Ph.D. is Associate Research Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and a Senior Policy Analyst within the Center for Child Health and Mental Health Policy of the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development (GUCCHD). She is currently the Director of the Sudden Infant Death and Other Infant Death (SIDS/ID) Project within the National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) and co-principle investigator of the Maryland Family Access Initiative, a Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) grant to support greater access for children and youth with special health care needs through managed care. Dr. Bronheim's extensive experience with children and adults with special health care needs and disabilities has been on many levels. As a pediatric psychologist, she was director of the learning disabilities/neuropsychology service for twenty years, was co-director of the Tourette Syndrome Clinic at Georgetown, and served as the psychologist in the Pediatric Pulmonary Center, the Cystic Fibrosis Center and the renal dialysis and transplant team at Georgetown University Hospital. She has also provided psychology consultation services to adults with developmental disabilities. Dr. Bronheim was director of the GUCCHD American Psychological Association approved psychology internship that provided interdisciplinary training related to children with or at risk for disabilities and focused on infants and young children. She served on the District of Columbia's Title V program strategic planning effort for children with special health care needs. For over ten years, she coordinated Communities Can!, funded in part by MCHB, a national network of communities dedicated to using collaborative strategies to support and serve all children and families, including those with or at risk for disabilities. Dr. Bronheim helped initiate and coordinated Communities of Excellence, a collaborative effort with the Federal Interagency Coordinating Council for Early Intervention (FICC) to honor five communities who have shown effective approaches to integrating services for young children and their families. She also co-chaired the federal MCHB Healthy People 2010 work group to develop a ten-year action plan related to the integration of services for children with special health care needs. She has contributed numerous publications and products to the field on topics related to serving children and youth with special needs and their families, improving systems of care for that population and addressing issues of cultural and linguistic competence in health care systems.

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• Center for Child and Human Development