EVENT: Raine Lecture

Professor Joseph Piven is currently Director of the federally-funded University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) at the University of North Carolina and NICHD-funded Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, while leading an NIH-funded T32 Post-Doctoral Research Training Program in Neurodevelopmental Disorders. He is also the Principal Investigator of an NIH-funded, multi-center Autism Center of Excellence (ACE), which examines early brain and behavior development in infants at high familial risk for autism. Other NIH research projects include studies of brain and behavior development in children with Fragile X Syndrome, as well as examinations of late life manifestations and issues in elderly individuals with autism. Professor Piven is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the new Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (Springer 2009), the aim of which is to promote interdisciplinary research on the pathogenesis of a range of neurodevelopment disorders.