AUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION - Key Persons


Adriana Di Martino

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Research Director and Founder of the Autism Center at the Child Mind Institute
  • Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. Di Martino is Research Director and Founder of the Autism Center at the Child Mind Institute and the Dr....

Alison Singer - Founder, President

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Board
  • President
As the mother of a 26-year-old daughter with autism and legal guardian of her older brother with autism, Alison is...

Ami Klin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. Klin is the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Professor and Chief of the Division of Autism and Developmental Disabilities...

Brian Boyd

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Scientific Advisory Board Member
  • William C. Friday Professor
Brian Boyd is a William C. Friday Professor in Education in the School of Education at the University of North...

Bryan Harkins

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Bryan is President of BIDS Trading L.P., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe). In this role, he...

Casey Gold-Casey

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director of Operations
Casey oversees the management of all ASF events and programs. She has three years of teaching experience in special education,...

Catherine Lord

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. Lord is the George Tarjan Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She...

Celine Saulnier

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Founder of Neurodevelopmental Assessment & Consulting Services
  • Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. Saulnier is the founder of Neurodevelopmental Assessment & Consulting Services. NACS develops, teaches, practices, and advocates for state-of-the-art diagnostic...

David Mandell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Mandell is the Kenneth E. Appel Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where...

Dr. Alycia Halladay

Job Titles:
  • Chief Science Officer
Alycia oversees the scientific activities, grants, and initiatives of ASF. She also produces a weekly podcast aimed specifically at explaining...

Dr. Eric Morrow

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Physician - Scientist
  • Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. Eric Morrow is a physician-scientist with extensive experience in autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Morrow received his M.D.-Ph.D....

Dr. Paul A. Offit

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Director of the Vaccine Education Center
Dr. Offit is the Director of the Vaccine Education Center and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases...

Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. DiCicco-Bloom has served the autism community for over a decade, providing scientific expertise and strategies to the National Alliance...

Eric London

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Director of the Autism Treatment Laboratory at the New York State Institute for Basic Research
  • Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. London is the Director of the Autism Treatment Laboratory at the New York State Institute for Basic Research in...

Guoping Feng

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. Feng holds the Poitras Professorship of Neuroscience in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive...

James C. McPartland

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Professor of Child Psychiatry and Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center
  • Scientific Advisory Board Chair
Dr. McPartland is Professor of Child Psychiatry and Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center. He is a licensed child...

Jonah Zimiles - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Treasurer
Jonah founded [words] bookstore in 2009 and has incorporated people with autism into its mission from the very start.

Joseph D. Buxbaum

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Professor of Psychiatry
  • Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. Buxbaum is a Professor of Psychiatry, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, and Neuroscience, and serves as the Director of the...

Katie Madgett

Job Titles:
  • Science Associate
Before joining ASF as a science associate, Katie worked with ASF as an intern and contributed to analysis of outcomes...

Katie Sime

Job Titles:
  • Events Director
Katie comes to ASF from AAB Productions, a boutique event agency, where she spent nine years producing high-profile fundraising galas,...

Michael Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Michael is an attorney, mediator, and experienced activist, serving on several non-profit boards in the fields of justice, education, and...

Michael Tranfaglia

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Medical Director and Chief Scientific Officer of FRAXA
Dr. Tranfaglia serves as Medical Director and Chief Scientific Officer of FRAXA. He coordinates the Foundation's research strategy, working with...

Robert T. Schultz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Director of the Center for Autism Research
  • Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. Schultz is the Director of the Center for Autism Research at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the RAC...

Scott Badesch - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
Scott is the past President & CEO of the Autism Society of America. A father of a young adult with...

Shafali Jeste

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Co - Director of the New CHLA Neurological Institute
  • Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. Jeste is the Chief of Neurology and Co-Director of the new CHLA Neurological Institute. As a behavioral child neurologist...

Stephan Sanders

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the University of California
Dr. Sanders is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Sander's research focuses on...