Alliance for Children's Mental Health Advisory Board

Edward (Ted) Pick

Chief Executive Officer, Morgan Stanley

Chair, Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children’s Mental Health Advisory Board

Edward (Ted) Pick is the Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley. Before becoming CEO in 2024, Mr. Pick served as Morgan Stanley’s Co-President, Co-Head of Firm Strategy and Head of the Institutional Securities Group, overseeing Investment Banking, Equities, Fixed Income, Global Capital Markets and Research. In previous roles, Mr. Pick was Global Head of Sales and Trading, engineering a turnaround of the firm’s Fixed Income Division. As Head of Institutional Equities, he led that business to a leading global position. He also served as Head of Equity Capital Markets, helping the firm actively raise capital during the financial crisis. Mr. Pick joined Morgan Stanley in 1990 and was promoted to Managing Director in 2002. He is a member of the firm’s Operating Committee (2012), Management Committee (2008) and Morgan Stanley-MUFG Steering Committee (2013). Mr. Pick graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Middlebury College (1990) and received an MBA from Harvard Business School (1994). He is a Trustee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2018) and serves on the MET’s Nominating & Governance Committees. Mr. Pick is Chair of the Advisory Board for the Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children’s Mental Health and a board member of the Institute of International Finance.

Joan Steinberg

Global Head of Philanthropy, President, Morgan Stanley Foundation

CEO, Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children’s Mental Health Advisory Board

Joan Steinberg is the Global Head of Philanthropy and President of the Morgan Stanley Foundation. After nine years in the nonprofit sector, Ms. Steinberg joined Morgan Stanley in 1997. She currently oversees Morgan Stanley’s global philanthropic programs, including strategic planning and execution, employee engagement, and corporate and Foundation grantmaking totaling more than $100 million annually. More than 90% of the Firm’s 60,000+ employees are active in these programs. Ms. Steinberg currently serves as member of the board of the Hispanic Federation and the SIFMA Foundation.

Harold S. Koplewicz, MD

Founding President and Medical Director of the Child Mind Institute

Harold S. Koplewicz, MD, is the founding president and medical director of the Child Mind Institute. One of the nation’s leading child and adolescent psychiatrists, he is known as an innovator in the field, a strong advocate for child mental health and a master clinician. Dr. Koplewicz has been repeatedly recognized in America’s Top Doctors, Best Doctors in America and New York Magazine‘s “Best Doctors in New York,” and was named one of WebMD’s 2014 Health Heroes for his advocacy on behalf of children with mental health and learning disorders. He is the past director of the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 

John MacPhee

Executive Director/CEO of the Jed Foundation (JED)

John MacPhee brings 25 years of leadership experience to his role as CEO of The Jed Foundation, a nonprofit that protects emotional health and prevents suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults. JED partners with high schools and colleges to strengthen their mental health, substance misuse, and suicide prevention approaches, and equips emerging adults with the skills and knowledge to help themselves and each other. Passionate about supporting young adults, John advises the S. Jay Levy Fellowship for Future Leaders at City College, Trek Medics, Crisis Text Line, the Health Policy and Management Department at the Mailman School of Public Health, and HIV Hero. John is a recipient of The Allan Rosenfield Alumni Award for Excellence in the field of public health from Columbia University. He earned a BA and MPH from Columbia University, and an MBA from New York University.

Stephanie Bell-Rose

Vice-President and Co-Founder of The Steve Fund

Stephanie Bell-Rose is a corporate, governance, and finance professional who is a passionate advocate for mental health, and co-founder of The Steve Fund, a national organization promoting mental health and emotional well-being of young people of color. She is a director of the Knight and MacArthur Foundations, the Association of Black Foundation Executives, and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.

Stephanie served as Senior Managing Director at TIAA and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where she was founding President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation. She was Legal Counsel and Program Officer at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and is a member of the Independent Directors Council, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Executive Leadership Council.  Stephanie received JD, MPA and AB degrees from Harvard University. 

David Stark, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Head of HR Data & Analytics, Morgan Stanley

David Stark is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and serves as Chief Medical Officer and Head of HR Data & Analytics. He joined the firm in 2018 from Mount Sinai Health System, where he was the Medical Director of the Institute for Next Generation Healthcare and an Assistant Professor of Health System Design. Prior to that, David was a research fellow in the departments of medicine and bioengineering at Stanford University School of Medicine. David is a licensed physician, board certified in pediatric neurology and clinical informatics.

Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD

Director of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD, is the Ruane Professor for the Implementation of Science for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI), and Columbia University; and Acting Director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain, a collaborative program between NewYork-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is also Co-Director of both the National Institute of Mental Health T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship for Translational Research in Child Psychiatric Disorders and the Whitaker Scholar Program in Developmental Neuropsychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Dr. Veenstra-VanderWeele is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who uses molecular and translational neuroscience research tools in the pursuit of new treatments for autism spectrum disorder and pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder. Prior to joining the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia in 2014, Dr. Veenstra-VanderWeele was Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, where he was also an Associate Professor and Medical Director for the Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorder.