Autism Consortium Symposium

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Check in at 8:30 AM and gather important information at the Family Research and Resource Fair, which will feature enrollment opportunities in the latest research studies as well as materials on local autism programs and resources.   From noon to 1:00 PM a box lunch will be available and there will be a poster session highlighting research in progress.

The morning session begins at 9:30 am with a welcome by Executive Director, Deirdre Phillips. 

A plenary session on New Visions for Autism Treatment which will feature Christopher McDougle, MD, Head of the Lurie Family Autism Center at Massachusetts General Hospital; Jean Frazier, MD, Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center; and William Barbaresi, MD, Associate Chief of the Division of Developmental Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston. 

A talk on Bridging Clinical Care and Clinical Research by Roula Choueiri, MD, a Neurodevelopmental Pediatrician at the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center will follow.

Next, Dennis Wall, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Director of the Computational Biology Initiative at Harvard Medical School will present on his work on Shortening the Behavioral Diagnosis of Autism Through Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Health Technologies.

Lunch will offer a poster session highlighting research in progress.

The afternoon will begin with an important and timely session on Relaying Research Findings to Families: Ethical and Legal Considerations by Pearl O'Rourke, MD, Director, Human Research Affairs at Partners Health Care System.

Following this, Mark Daly, PhD, Associate Professor at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute will provide an update on Autism Genetics:  New Advances and Future Considerations.

Next Vijaya Ramesh, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology (Genetics) at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Neurologist at MGH will discuss her work on Neuronal E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Pam in TSC/mTORC1 Signaling and Synapse Development.

After that Ann Graybiel, PhD, Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Investigator at the McGovern Institute, MIT will talk about her work on Repetitive Behaviors in Autism Spectrum and OC-Spectrum Disorders: The Basal Ganglia Link.

Finally, Nancy Kanwisher, PhD, Ellen Swallow Richards Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT will talk about her work on Cognitive Phenotype of Autism: Face Perception and Attention.

The day will end with a reception.

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For more information
email: autismconsortium@hms.harvard.edu
call: 617-432-6961