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Geraldine Dawson (2013). Interview: A career devoted to improving the lives of people with autism. Neuropsychiatry, 3(2), 139-145. OMICS Publishing Group.
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Professor Dawson is Chief Science Officer for Autism Speaks (NY, USA) where she oversees US$25–30 million in annual autism research funding. She is Research Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC, USA), Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University (NY, USA) and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Washington (WA, USA). Dawson is a licensed clinical psychologist and researcher, and has published over 200 scientific articles and nine books related to autism, with a focus on early detection and intervention, brain development and plasticity. She developed and empirically validated the Early Start Denver Model, the first comprehensive intervention for toddlers with autism with Sally Rogers. From 1996 to 2008, Dawson was Founding Director of the University of Washington Autism Center where she directed three consecutive NIH Autism Center of Excellence research programs on genetics, neuroimaging, early diagnosis and treatment. She also oversaw a...
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