2024 Family Conference Speakers

Listed below are our confirmed speakers for this year’s Family Conference. Speakers will be added as they are confirmed.

CURE SPEAKERS

Alex Kolevzon, MD

Clinical Director, Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Audrey Thurm, PhD

Director, Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Phenotyping Service, Intramural Research Program

National Institutes of Mental Health

Jimmy L. Holder, Jr. MD, PhD

Co-Chair BCM Medical School Admissions Committee, Joan and Stanford Alexander Chair for Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology

Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine

Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD

Departments of Pediatrics, Neurological Sciences, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Director, RUSH Pediatric Neurosciences F.A.S.T. Center for Translational Research

Rush University Medical Center

 

 

CARE SPEAKERS

William E. Bennett, MD, MS

Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition; Scientific Director, Indiana CTSI Patient Engagement Core; Adjunct Associate Professor of Urology

Indiana University School of Medicine

Sid Srivastava, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital

Ann Neumeyer, MD

Medical Director and Child Neurologist, MGH Lurie Family Endowed Chair in Autism, Associate Professor of Neurology

Lurie Center for Autism, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Tess Levy, CGC

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry , Clinical Trials Manager 

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Antonio M. Persico, MD

Full Proessor in Child & Adolescent Neuropsychiatry; Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Teresa M. Kohlenberg, MD

Member, Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Neuropsychiatric Consultation Group (ECHO)

Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Hala Harony-Nicolas, PhD

Associate Professor; Director of the Summer Undergraduate Research Program for Underserved Scholars (SURP4US); The Department of Psychiatry; The Department of Neuroscience

Seaver Autism Center, Friedman Brain Institute Scholar, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Xian Gao, PhD

Director of Translational Research at Emugen Therapeutics. 

MIT Research Affiliate

Guoping Feng, PhD

Poitras Professor of Neuroscience; Associate Director, McGovern Institute for Brain Research; Director, Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research; Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Director of Model Systems and Neurobiology, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research Institute; Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Michael Schön, MD

Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology

Ulm University

Liza Squires, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Neuren Pharmaceuticals

Daniel Gallo, PhD

Head of Medical Affairs at Jaguar Gene Therapy

CONNECT SPEAKERS

Cathy Bottini

Mom to Christopher, age 43

Kris Graff

Mom to Ryan, age 24

Andrea Papageorgiou

Mom to Olivia, age 15

Jamie Vande Hey

Mom to Colt, age 7

Dana Winrow, PT, CT-LANA

Rick Wood

Pam Kurtz

Stacy Brandjord

Laraleigh Windom

Meredith Coerner

Kiley Richards, LISW

Brandon Barnett

Chardell Buchanan, MA, RDN

Janet Wilson

Amy O’Donnell

Kate Ahern, MEd

Cindy Barnett, LCSW

Mike Riley

Mike Cento

PMSF FOUNDERS

Katy Phelan, PhD

Past Director, Co-Founder

Susan Lomas

Past President, Co-Founder

Nick Assendelft

Past Vice President, Co-Founder

Curtis Rogers, MD

Chairman Emeritus, Co-Founder