External Advisory Committee

The External Advisory Committee (EAC) evaluates IDDRC services and functioning, advises leadership on new or emerging core-related technologies, and recommends ways to improve integration of P50 project and cores. Its members are seasoned scientists in IDD translational research and IDDRC scientific leadership and management. In 2015-16, a family disability advocate was added. The EAC meets annually.

• Leonard Abbeduto, Ph.D.
  Tsakopoulos-Vismara Endowed Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  Director, MIND Institute
  University of California-Davis

• Carrie Bearden, Ph.D.
  Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Psychology
  University of California Los Angeles

• Daniel Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D.
  Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair in Human Genetics, Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry
  Director, Neurogenetics Program
  Director, Center for Autism Research and Treatment
  Co-Director, Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics
  UCLA School of Medicine

• Pat Levitt, Ph.D.
  Pat Levitt, PhD Chief Scientific Officer, Vice President, and Director, The Saban Research Institute
  Simms/Mann Chair in Developmental Neurogenetics, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
  WM Keck Professor in Neurogenetics, Department of Pediatrics
  Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

• Bradley L. Schlaggar, M.D., Ph.D.
  President and CEO
  Kennedy Krieger Institute

• John Shouse
  Parent and Disability Public Policy Advocate
  Former Chair, VKC Community Advisory Council

• Timothy Shriver, Ph.D.
  Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
  Special Olympics

• Larry J. Young, Ph.D.
  William P. Timmie Professor of Psychiatry
  Center for Behavioral Neuroscience
  Emory University