National Scientific Advisory Board

Board brings a broad, national perspective to the Center's research, advising the Center's scientific leaders on promising research directions, administrative arrangements and program directions, and funding possibilities.

Leonard Abbeduto, Ph.D.
Tsakopoulos-Vismara Endowed Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, MIND Institute
University of California-Davis

Margaret Burchinal, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Director of Data Management Core
FPG Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Daniel Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Neurogenetics Program
Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine

Joseph Piven, M.D.
Director, Neurodevelopment Disorders Research Center
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Timothy Shriver, Ph.D.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Special Olympics

Larry J. Young, Ph.D.
William P. Timmie Professor of Psychiatry
Center for Behavioral Neuroscience
Emory University