coe-staff: Friday Jan 9th Distinguished Lecture - Dr. Susan Bookheimer

[Laura Lee McIntyre]

The School Psychology Program, Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, and the College of Education are pleased to announce an invited address  from distinguished colleague Dr. Susan Bookheimer. All are welcome to attend! Light refreshments provided.

Title:
Integrating Genetics, Imaging, and Behavior in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Susan Bookheimer, Ph.D.
Director of the UCLA Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, Joaquin Fuster Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine, and Professor of Psychology, UCLA

WHEN: Friday, January 9, 2015
PRESENTATION: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS: 2:30-3:00 p.m.
WHERE: 340 HEDCO Education Building


Dr. Bookheimer is Director of the UCLA Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC), holds the Joaquin Fuster Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience, and is a Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and in the Department of Psychology. She is a clinical neuropsychologist whose work has spanned both basic research and clinical practice.  Her experimental expertise includes structural and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (sMRI, fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), sodium Amytal examinations (Wada tests) and intraoperative electrocortical stimulation mapping (ESM), as well as classical neuropsychological approaches. Dr. Bookheimer has been active in functional brain imaging since the late 1980's, first with PET and then fMRI once it was developed in the early 1990s. She has been working in imaging in aging and dementia since 1994 following her arrival at UCLA. Dr. Bookheimer has written over 100 scientific articles using PET and MRI, including much work on developing new MRI acquisition and analysis approaches for hippocampal and memory imaging. She is past Council member for the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (2003-05) and is Chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the annual meeting, and has served on the NIMH Council Work Group on MRI Research Practices and on the NIH Working Group on Pediatric Imaging, and was co-leader of the CPEA-STAART Neuroimaging sub-committee, which developed shared protocols across sites for combining brain-imaging data on individuals with autism.

Dr. Bookheimer is the PI of the UCLA Autism Center of Excellence. She has extensive experience administering large grants and programs; she serves as the Director of the UCLA Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC); she has been Imaging Core Director for the ACE, the Conte Center for Translational Research in Enhancing Cognitive Control (TRECC; James McCracken, PI) and other UCLA imaging program project grants, as well as PI of several R01s.  Dr. Bookheimer is an active member of IMFAR, serving as Chair of the Membership Committee, and is a member of the Scientific Program Committee; she is also past chair of the Scientific Program Committee for IMFAR (2007). She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the HELP Group, which runs the largest school for children with autism in the country. Dr. Bookheimer has published over 170 scientific articles using brain-imaging technologies and is a leader in the field of brain imaging in autism and developmental disorders.



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Laura Lee McIntyre, PhD, BCBA-D
Professor & Co-Director, School Psychology
Associate Director, Child and Family Center
Prevention Science Institute
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