About Us Researchers
ASD-CARC (Autism Spectrum Disorders -- Canadian-American Research Consortium) is a group comprised of researchers, clinicians and families from across Canada and the US and worldwide. Please see below for a listing of our research team members and collaborators.
Canada
Calgary, AB:
London, ON:
- Derrick MacFabe, MD (The Kilee Patchell-Evans Autism Research Group; University of Western Ontario)
Kingston, ON:
- Muhammad Ayub, MBBS, MRCPsyche, MSc, MD (Queen's University)
- Melissa Hudson, BSc (ASD-CARC Study Coordinator)(Queen's University)
- Xudong Liu, PhD (Co-Director, ASD-CARC)(Queen's University)
- Bruce McCreary, MD (Queen's University)
- Jennifer McKenzie, MD (Queen's University)
- Patricia Minnes, PhD (Queen's University)
- Doug Munoz, PhD (Queen's University)
- Hélène Ouellette-Kuntz, MSc, RN (Queen's University)
- Mark Sabbagh, PhD (Queen's University)
- Dawa Samdup, MD, FRCP(C) (Queen's University; Hotel Dieu Hospital)
- Sarosh Khalid-Khan, MD (Queen's University; Hotel Dieu Hospital)
- Garth Smith, MD (Queen's University; Hotel Dieu Hospital)
- Jagdeep Walia, MD FRCPC (Queen's University; Kingston General Hospital)
Peterborough, ON:
St. Catharines, ON:
Toronto (GTA), ON:
- James Bebko, PhD (York University)
- Elspeth Bradley, PhD MBBS FRCPsych FRCPC (University of Toronto; Surrey Place Centre)
- Sandra Farrell, MD, FRCPC, FCCMG (Credit Valley Hospital)
- Cynthia Forster-Gibson, MD, PhD (Credit Valley Hospital)
- Adrienne Perry, PhD (York University)
- Margaret Spoelstra (Executive Director of Autism Ontario)
- Kevin Stoddart, MSW, PhD, RSW (Director, The Redpath Centre)
- John Vincent, PhD (CAMH; University of Toronto)
- Jonathan Weiss, PhD, C.Psych (York University)
Vancouver, BC:
- Kristina Calli, BSc (BC Team Study Coordinator)(University of British Columbia)
- Suzanne Lewis, MD, FRCPC, FCCMG (University of British Columbia)
- Paul Pavlidis, PhD (University of British Columbia)
- Evica Rajcan-Separovic, PhD, FCCMG (University of British Columbia)
Winnipeg, MB:
United States
Boston, MA:
Columbia, MO:
- David Beversdorf, MD (Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri)
- Patrick Hecht, PhD Candidate (Neuroscience, University of Missouri)
Harrisburg, PA:
New York, NY:
- Ted Brown, MD, PhD (NYS Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island)
- Ira Cohen, PhD (NYS Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island)
- Edmund Jenkins, PhD (NYS Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island)
- John A. Tsiouris, MD (NYS Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island)
Outside North America
- Cheryl Dissanayake, PhD (Latrobe University, Australia)
- Sultana Faradz, PhD (Diponegoro University, Indonesia)
- Anthony Persico, MD (Campus Biomedico (Italy)
- Jenny Torr, MBBS, Mmed (Monash University, Australia)