FIBROUS DYSPLASIA FOUNDATION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Voting
- Treasurer
Job Titles:
- Associate Investigator
- Director of the Neurodevelopmental
- Medical Advisory Council
We are delighted to announce the addition of Audrey Thurm, Ph.D., to our Medical Advisory Council. Dr. Thurm is a psychologist at the NIH and has worked closely with Medical Advisory Chair Dr. Alison Boyce to provide support to the families enrolled in the FD/MAS Natural History study that Dr. Boyce oversees at the NIH. "It's becoming increasingly clear that social, emotional, and behavioral health is critical to an individual's well-being," said Dr. Boyce, "Dr. Thurm is wonderful with our patients. She spends a lot of time with each family and is very thoughtful in all her work."
Dr. Thurm is the Director of the Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Phenotyping Service in the Office of the Clinical Director, part of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)'s Intramural Research Program (IRP). After receiving a B.S. in human development from Cornell University, she received training in child clinical psychology at DePaul University, trained as an intern at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and conducted a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She has been at NIMH since 2002, serving in the extramural program until 2006, at which time she moved to the IRP to engage in research on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other related neurodevelopmental disorders.