Advisors

Dana Ball is the CEO of Unitio, Inc., and the executive director and cofounder of T1D Exchange. He has been a patient advocate for 30 years and has spent more than a decade as a nonprofit executive driving innovative programs in type…

Raphael “Raphe” Bernier is an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and educational psychology, and an adjunct assistant professor of psychology at the University of Washington. He also serves as the clinical director of the Seattle Children’s Autism Center in Seattle,…

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…

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…

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…