About Us

The Exploring Autism website is the result of a collaboration between researchers, non-profit groups, and families who are living with autism. Organizations who make this site possible range from major universities and medical centers to the National Alliance for Autism Research.

Researchers from these institutions are members of Autism Genetics Cooperative

Website Editors:

  • Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, PhD
    Director, Center for Human Genetics
    Department of Medicine
    Duke University Medical Center
    Durham, NC
  • Susan Folstein, MD
    Boston University
    School of Medicine
    Department of Anatomy
    Boston, MA 02118
  • Chantelle M. Wolpert, MBA, PA-C, CGC
    Project Director
    Genetic Counselor / Physician Assistant
    Center for Human Genetics
    Department of Medicine
    Duke University Medical Center
    Durham, NC

Technical Advisors:

  • Shannon Donnelly
    Center for Human Genetics
    Department of Medicine
    Duke University Medical Center
    Durham, NC
  • Carolyn Strong Turner
    Center for Human Genetics
    Department of Medicine
    Duke University Medical Center
    Durham, NC

Intern:

  • Shelly Galasinski
    Genetic Counseling Candidate
    UNC-Greensboro

Advisory Board:

  • Beth Rosen-Sheidley, MS, CGC
    Website co-founder
    Genetic Counselor/Senior Research Clinician
    Department of Psychiatry
    New England Medical Center
    Boston, MA
  • Ruth K. Abramson, PhD
    Professor and Chief
    Psychiatric Genetic Services Education, Training, and Research
    South Carolina Department of Mental Health and the USC School of Medicine
    Columbia, SC
  • Heidi Cope, MS
    Genetic Counselor
    Center for Human Genetics
    Department of Medicine
    Duke University Medical Center
    Durham, NC
  • Barbara Becker-Cottrill, Ed.D.
    CEO, Autism Training Program
    Marshall University
    Huntington, West Virginia
  • Catalina Betancur, MD, PhD
    INSERM U513
    Medical School, University of Paris XII
    Creteil, France
  • Michael Cuccaro, PhD
    Center for Human Genetics
    Duke University Medical Center
    Durham, NC
  • Susanne Harris
    Parent
    Durham, NC
  • Catherine Lord, Ph.D.
    Director, Professor of Psychology
    University of Michigan Autism and Communication Disorders Center
    University of Michigan
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109
  • Christina Palmer, PhD
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
    University of California Los Angeles
    Los Angeles, CA
  • Stephen Scherer, PhD
    Senior Scientist
    The Hospital for Sick Children
    Toronto, Canada
  • Judith Feigon Schiffman, MSW
    Northwestern University Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling
    Northwestern University Medical School
    Chicago, IL
  • Harry Wright, MD, MBA
    Professor
    University of South Carolina School of Medicine
    Columbia, South Carolina


STUDY: AUTISM RISE FROM LABELING, NOT EPIDEMIC
A rise in autism cases is not evidence of a feared epidemic but reflects that schools are diagnosing autism more frequently, a study said Monday. More ...

SCANS SHOW DIFFERENT GROWTH FOR INTELLIGENT BRAINS
The brains of highly intelligent children develop in a different pattern from those with more average abilities, researchers have found after analyzing a series of imaging scans collected over 17 years. More ...

RESEARCHERS: INFANTS BEGIN LEARNING LANGUAGE AS EARLY AS 10 MONTHS
Infants are listening and learning their first words as young as 10 months, but they are only learning the words for objects that are of interest to them, not for objects of interest to the speaker, according to researchers at Temple University, University of Delaware and University of Evansville. More ...

 
   

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