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:

• Francois Bernier, MD, FRCPC, FCCMG (University of Calgary)
• Deborah Dewey, PhD (Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute)

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:

• Laura Summerfeldt, PhD (Trent University)
  

St. Catharines, ON:

• Maurice Feldman, PhD (Brock University)

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:

• Albert E. Chudley, MD, FRCPC, FCCMG (Children's Hospital & University of Manitoba)
• Janine Montgomery, PhD (University of Manitoba)
• Dickie C.T. Yu, PhD (St. Amant Centre & University of Manitoba)  

United States

Boston, MA:

• Margaret Bauman, MD (Lurie Center for Autism; Massachusetts General Hospital)
• Susan Connors, MD (Massachusetts General Hospital)

Columbia, MO:

• David Beversdorf, MD (Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri)
• Patrick Hecht, PhD Candidate (Neuroscience, University of Missouri)

Harrisburg, PA:

• Kimberley Schreck, Phd (Penn State 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)