Advisors

Paul S. Appelbaum, is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law, and director of the Division of Law, Ethics and Psychiatry at Columbia University. Previously, Appelbaum was the A.F. Zeleznik Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry,…

Guy Calvert, is a board member of the nonprofit Dup15q Alliance. He has a bachelor’s degree in pure mathematics from the University of Sydney in Australia and a D.Phil. in mathematical physics from Oxford University in the U.K.  Calvert recently joined Twitter…

Monica Coenraads’s involvement with Rett syndrome began the day her then-2-year-old daughter was diagnosed with the disorder. A year later, in 1999, she co-founded the Rett Syndrome Research Foundation (RSRF) and held the position of scientific director during the eight years of…

Daniel Geschwind, holds the Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair in Human Genetics and is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine. He is director of the neurogenetics program and the Center for…

Omar Khwaja, is head of rare diseases at Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development. An experienced drug developer, Khwaja is a pediatric neurologist with specialized skills in critical care, fetal-neonatal neurology and neurogenetics.  His research background includes pediatrics, neonatology, human genetics and…

Ami Klin, is the director of the Marcus Autism Center, a subsidiary of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and is also Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Professor at Emory University School of Medicine. Until 2010, he directed the autism program at the Yale…

Paul Lipkin is the director of the Department of Medical Informatics and principal investigator of the Interactive Autism Network (IAN) at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and an associate professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. As director of medical informatics,…