Autism Innovations & Global Impact Conference: The State of the Science – April 28 & 29, 2017
Sponsored by Shanken Family Foundation
Participants heard from renowned leaders in the field of autism spectrum disorder including:
Dr. Andy Shih, Vice President of Scientific Affairs, Autism Speaks
Dr. Roy Richard Grinker, Professor and Chair Departement of Anthropology, The George Washington University
Dr. Adriana Di Martino, Associate Professor and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Research Director, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research & Clinical Program, The Child Study Center at NYU Langone Medical Center, Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Dr. Petrus de Vries, Director of the Center for Autism Research in Africa & the Adolescent Health Research Unit at the University of Cape Town & Sue Struengmann Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Honorable Mike Lake, Member of Parliament Edmonton-Wetaskiwin, Canada
Dr. Catherine Lord, Director, Center for Autism and the Developing Brain, New York Presbyterian Hospital; Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology, Weil Cornell Medicine
Dr. Ami Klin, Director, Marcus Autism Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Professor & Chief, Division of Autism and Related Disorders Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine Center for Translational Social Neuroscience, Emory University
Dr. Roberto Tuchman, Director of Neurology at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital & Miami Children’s Health System; Clinical Professor of Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Behavioral Health FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine