Advisors

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

Antonio Hardan is professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, where he is the Carl Feinstein Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division. He is also the director of the Autism and Developmental Disorders Clinic at…

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,…

Becca Lory was diagnosed on the autism spectrum as an adult and has since become an active autism advocate, consultant, speaker and writer. With a focus on living an active, positive life, her work includes autism consulting; public speaking engagements; writing a…

Sandy Magaña holds the professorship in autism and neurodevelopmental disabilities at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work (UT SSW). She received a master’s in social work from California State University, San Bernardino, and her Ph.D. from the Heller…

Heather C. Mefford, is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington in the Division of Genetic Medicine and attending physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital in the Medical Genetics Clinic. Mefford has a research laboratory devoted to the discovery of…

Megan O’Boyle is the parent of a 17-year-old daughter with Phelan-McDermid syndrome. This diagnosis includes autism, intellectual disabilities, epilepsy, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other medical conditions. She is the principal investigator for the Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Data Network and the Phelan-McDermid Syndrome…