February 2023 ICC

Pippa Milne

Ana Nevares

Ana Nevares, M.A. is a state-certified special education teacher. She is a native Spanish speaker and has coordinated the South Florida Regional FAAST program for the past 10 years.  Ms. Nevares has extensive experience providing trainings on assistive technology, educating individuals and professionals on how these devices can support education, employment, and or daily life. As a leader in curriculum development for the Step Up AT Project, she assists in the creation and dissemination of resources to support AT and collaborates in the translation of materials. Additionally, she serves as a Master Coach in the supervision of educational specialists who are training to work one-on-one with teachers in support of AT in the classroom.

Raul Poulsen

Raúl J. Poulsen, M.D., is an assistant professor of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is a licensed, double board-certified psychiatrist in both Child & Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry who proudly serves the community and aspires to provide dedicated mental health care to the Santa Clara County/South Bay area through the allcove sites located in Palo Alto, California. He is a graduate from the University of Florida with a degree in psychology and received his medical degree from the University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine. Dr. Poulsen completed his adult psychiatry training at Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson, NJ and completed his child and adolescent psychiatry training at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine and Jackson Memorial Hospital in south Florida.  Dr. Poulsen specializes in childhood and adult mental illness and psychotropic treatments with a general interest in systems of mental health care, collaborative care models and providing consultation for improved mental health wellbeing.

Talhia Rangel

Talhia graduated from NSU Shepard Broad College of Law in 2019 and practiced family and marital law before joining the team here at NSU. In law school, Professor Rangel served as the Vol. 25 Bilingual Article Editor of the ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law and received First Place in the esteemed Feinrider Upperclassmen Moot Court competition. Finding a passion for oral advocacy, she competed in the Domenick L. Gabrielli National Family Law Moot Court Competition in Albany, New York, where her team became quarter finalists out of 26 law schools. In her last semester of law school, Professor Rangel was one of seven certified legal interns that were granted a provisional law license by the Florida Supreme Court to practice law prior to graduation. Through the NSU Children and Families Law Clinic, Professor Rangel was permitted to represent indigent clients in family law matters, where she also received the Honorable Charles I. Kaplan Outstanding Service Award for her dedication and commitment to children and families through the clinic.

Bryan Russell

Anjali Saxena

Ann Siegel

Ann Siegel has been an advocate for individuals with disabilities for over twenty years. She received her Juris Doctor from Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center. During law school, Ann was a Disability Law Fellow at the Children First organization and volunteered as a Guardian Ad Litem. For fifteen years, she served as a surrogate parent for children in the dependency system within Broward County. She gained substantial legal experience working as a staff attorney in the Education Legal Rights Project of the Children’s Advocacy Program at Legal Aid Service of Broward, Inc. from April 2001- January 2009. Her first job after law school was at the Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities) and then in January 2009, she returned to Disability Rights Florida (formerly the Advocacy Center). Ann is the Legal Director and Director of the Client Assistance Program. She is a member of the Florida Bar and is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Middle and Northern Districts as well as in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeal.

Mac Starnes

Mac Starnes is a graduate of Lynn University in Boca Raton, FL, with a BA in Multimedia Journalism. He pursues work as a concert photographer and serves on the board of the Florida Family Leaders Network. Also, a “ventilator graduate” from his childhood days, Mac lives life to the full while embracing his rare condition that requires living with a trach and g-tube, and the use of assistive technology to support his unique communication style.

Jonathan Tolentino

Dr. Tolentino joined the UM/JMH Med-Peds Program in March 2020, as the Program Director, and is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Miami.  He has over a decade of experience in graduate medical education in med-peds program leadership.  Upon completion of his chief year, he was Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program and Assistant Program Director for the Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency program at the University of Cincinnati.  He was then recruited to Stony Brook University, where he served as Med-Peds Program Director for five years.

Dr. Tolentino brings his past clinical experiences in care for young adults with special health care needs, cystic fibrosis, and adult survivors of childhood cancers to UM/JMH.  He is passionate about working with the underserved and vulnerable, LGBTQ+ community, and working to reduce health care disparities affecting Latinx and Asian communities.  He is active nationally and has served in national leadership roles in the Med-Peds Program Directors Association (MPPDA), Society for General Internal Medicine, and APDIM, and currently serves as President for the MPPDA.  He works clinically as a primary care physician, a transition medicine specialist, and as an adult and pediatric hospitalist. His interests include resident medical education, primary care, adult survivorship of pediatric cancer, transition from childhood to adulthood care, quality improvement, vulnerable populations and health disparities, and medical education research.

Michelle Zaydlin

Dr. Zaydlin is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow at Jackson Memorial Hospital in affiliation with The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, where she also completed her training in general psychiatry. Dr. Zaydlin received her M.D. from San Juan Bautista School of Medicine and her B.S. in Neuroscience and Spanish Language Literature from the University of Michigan. She enjoys working with children and adolescents with developmental delays and intellectual disabilities and providing a multidisciplinary treatment approach.

During her training she has been actively involved in quality improvement projects focused on improving care for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) on inpatient psychiatric units. Additionally, she is currently involved in research with the UHealth Tics, OCD, and Related Disorders Program. She has prior research experience with the Puerto Rico Health Justice Center where she aided a team of forensic psychiatrists, psychologists, and gynecologists on promoting the need for psychiatric intervention and a multidisciplinary approach for victims of sexual violence. She also formerly chaired trauma intervention group therapies for children ages 8-12 who were exposed to intimate partner violence as part of the Kids Club and Mom’s Empowerment Program at the University of Michigan. Dr. Zaydlin has former work experience working in applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy as a registered behavior technician, prior to starting her medical training.

Outside of work, her interests include paddleboarding and spending time out on the water, farmers markets, reading mysteries and thrillers, and spending time with her two rescue cats.