Staff Bio
David M. O'Hara, Ph.D.
Vice President
Dr. O'Hara began his career in England but moved to the U.S. in 1972. In 1975 he joined the Kennedy Krieger UCDD as Director of Social Work Training. He joined the Westchester Institute for Human Development as Associate Director in 1987 and served as Acting Director from 1993-1994. Since 1993, Dr. O'Hara has also served as the Program Director for the Assistive Technology Certificate program in the School of Public Health at New York Medical College.
Dr. O'Hara served on the AUCD (formerly AAUAP) Board
of Directors for several years. He is the current co-chair
of the international committee and past chair the Interdisciplinary
Council. He has served as the chair of grant review panels
for the Administration on Children and Families and as
a grant reviewer for the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
Dr. O'Hara has had a longstanding interest in the special health care needs
of children in foster care and while at the Kennedy Krieger
Institute created a model health care program focused
on meeting these needs. This program later became approved
as a child placement agency so that it could recruit,
supervise and support foster parents willing to care for
children with severe special health care needs. On moving
to New York State, Dr. O'Hara established a similar model
of health care services for children in foster care served
by WIHD. He is currently a member of a special task force
on the health of children in foster care created by District
II, New York State, the American Academy of Pediatrics,
which has recently published Fostering Health: Health
Care for Children in Foster Care, a set of standards for
health care providers working with children in foster
care.
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