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Editorial Board


Editor-in-Chief

Christina Nicolaidis, MD, MPH
Portland State University
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR, USA
autisminadulthood@pdx.edu

Managing Editor 

Karen Cloud-Hansen, PhD
Brookfield, WI, USA
kcloudhansen@liebertpub.com
 

Editors

Kristen Bottema-Beutel, PhD
Boston College
Boston, MA, USA

 

Anne Kirby, PhD, OTR/L
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
 

Brenna Maddox, PhD
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

 

Dora Raymaker, PhD*
Portland State University
Portland, OR, USA
 

Noah J. Sasson, PhD
The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX, USA

Deputy Editors


Monique Botha, PhD, MSc*
University of Stirling
Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

 

Eilidh Cage, PhD
University of Stirling
Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

Sarah Cassidy, PhD
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, United Kingdom

Lisa Croen, PhD
Kaiser Permanente Northern California
Oakland, CA, USA
 

Jennifer Frymiare, PhD
Ursinus College
Collegeville, PA, USA
 

Brittany N. Hand, PhD, OTR/L
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA


Darren Hedley, PhD
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia



Barry J. Ingham, DClinPsy
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom


Amy Pearson, PhD, MSc*
University of Sunderland
London, United Kingdom


Insight Essay Editor

Dora Raymaker, PhD*
Portland State University
Portland, OR, USA

 

Social Media Editors

Ava N. Gurba, BS*
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY, USA

 
Mirabel K. Pelton, MSc
Coventry University
Coventry, United Kingdom

 

Editorial Board

Julia Bascom*
Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Washington, DC, USA
 

Teal Benevides, PhD, OTR/L
Augusta University
Augusta, GA, USA
 

Nancy Cheak-Zamora, PhD
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO, USA
 

Gerri Collins-Bride, RN, MS, ANP, FAAN
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA


James Cusack, PhD*
Autistica
London, United Kingdom


Marc Fabri, PhD
Leeds Beckett University
Leeds, United Kingdom

 

Eric Fombonne, MD
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR, USA


Finn Gardiner, MPP*
Brandeis University
Boston, MA, USA

Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, MA*
Autism Women’s Network
Houston, TX, USA

 

Steven Kapp, PhD*
University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth, United Kingdom

 

Clarissa Kripke, MD
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA

 

Alice A. Kuo, MD, PhD, MBA
UCLA Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

Wenn Lawson, PhD*
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, United Kingdom

Kristina Lopez, PhD, MS
Arizona State University
Phoenix, AZ, USA

Katherine E. McDonald, PhD
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY, USA
 

Kim Musheno, BA
Autism Society of America
Rockville, MD, USA

 

David Nicholas, PhD
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Jeremy Parr, MD
Newcastle University
Newcastle, United Kingdom

Alexia Rattazzi, MD
PANAACEA
Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Catherine Rice, PhD
Emory Autism Center
Atlanta, GA, USA

Scott Robertson, PhD*
Consultant
Washington, DC, USA

Khalilah Robinson Johnson, PhD, MS
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

 

Ralph Savarese, PhD
Grinnell College
Grinnell, IA, USA

Stephen Shore, EdD*
Adelphi University
Garden City, NY, USA

Nidhi Singhal, PhD
Action for  Autism
New Dehli, India
 

Kevin Stoddart, PhD
The Redpath Centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

TC Waisman, EdD*
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

 

Akio Wakabayashi, PhD
Chiba University
Chiba, Japan

 

* Editorial Board members bring expertise as researchers, scholars, clinicians, advocates, and/or community leaders. Individuals whose names are followed by an asterisk (*) openly identify as being on the autism spectrum. Many board members also bring personal experience as family members, caregivers, friends, and allies of autistic individuals.
 

The views, opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations set forth in any Journal article are solely those of the authors of those articles and do not necessarily reflect the views, policy or position of the Journal, its Publisher, its editorial staff or any affiliated Societies and should not be attributed to any of them.