Medical and Science Advisory Committee
Members of the Autism Speaks Medical and Science Advisory Committee’s expertise spans the field’s broad range of research. Their work includes advances in behavioral interventions, medicine development, the treatment of autism-related health conditions, and the genetic and environmental factors that influence autism.
The committee plays a pivotal role in reviewing research proposals and providing guidance to further Autism Speaks’ mission to be a catalyst for life-enhancing research breakthroughs by advancing research into causes and better interventions for autism spectrum disorder and related conditions.
Committee Chair
Thomas W. Frazier, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychology, John Carroll University
Committee Members
Brian Boyd, Ph.D., director of the Juniper Gardens Children’s Project, associate professor in the Department of Applied Behavioral Science, University of Kansas
Joseph Buxbaum, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry, neuroscience and genomic sciences, and director of the Seaver Autism Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Edwin Cook, M.D., professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Illinois, Chicago
Daniele Fallin, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Stelios Georgiades, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences and co-director of the McMaster Autism Research Team, McMaster University
Connie Kasari, Ph.D., professor of human development and psychology in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and the Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute, University of California, Los Angeles
Catherine Lord, Ph.D., director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain, Weill Cornell Medicine
Herbert Pardes, M.D., executive vice chairman of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Board of Trustees
Vikram Patel, Ph.D., M.B.B.S., Pershing Square professor of global health and Wellcome Trust principal research fellow, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; professor in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; co-founder and member of Managing Committee, Sangath
Joseph Piven, M.D., director of the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, University of North Carolina
Stuart Savitz, founder of the Law Offices of Stuart M. Savitz LLC
Stephen Shore, Ed.D., clinical assistant professor at the Amman School of Education, Adelphi University
Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, M.D., director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeon