Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Lecture on Development and Developmental Disabilities: Multidisciplinary Approaches for Challenging Behavior
Matthew Siegel, M.D., MBA, Chief of Clinical Enterprise, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Boston Childrens Hospital
Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, 12:00-1:00 p.m. CT
OMC 241, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center/One Magnolia Circle Building and online
A small number of lunches will be provided to in-person attendees on a first come, first served basis.
About the Speaker:Matthew Siegel, M.D., MBA, is a Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine, Chief of Clinical Enterprise for Boston Childrens Hospital Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Chief Behavior Health Officer for Franciscan Childrens Hospital. He attended Amherst College and Stanford Medical School, and trained at Brown University in child psychiatry, psychiatry, and pediatrics.
Dr. Siegel built an internationally recognized continuum of care, teaching and research to address the behavioral health of youth with autism and other developmental disabilities in Maine. He founded and is the principal investigator of the Autism and Developmental Disorders Inpatient Research Collaborative (ADDIRC), and founded the first U.S. learning health network of hospital psychiatric units serving youth with developmental disabilities. His research and clinical work have focused on better understanding the phenotypic profiles and clinical needs of youth with profound autism, intense behavior and co-occurring psychiatric disorders. He has led the creation of the Autism Inpatient Collection, a data resource of over 1500 deeply phenotyped and genetically sequenced participants, heavily weighted to those with profound autism and intense behavior, available to investigators worldwide through SFARIBase. Dr. Siegel is a federally appointed member of the National Institutes of Health Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee and a lead author of the practice guidelines of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for assessment and treatment of youth with autism, and youth with intellectual disability.
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