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Brief Biographical Statement March 16, 2019 Fred R. Volkmar, M.D. is the Goodwin Endowed chair of Special Education (part time) at Southern and also (par time) the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the Yale University Child Study Center, He has served as Director (chair) of the Child Study Center as well as Chief of Child Psychiatry at Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT. A graduate of the University of Illinois where he received in undergraduate degree in psychology in 1972 and of Stanford University where he received his MD and a master's degree in psychology in 1976 Dr. Volkmar was the primary author of the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV autism and pervasive developmental disorders section. He is the author of several hundred scientific papers and chapters as well as a number of books including Asperger's Syndrome (Guilford Press), Health Care for Children on the Autism Spectrum (Woodbine Publishing), the Handbook of Autism (Wiley Publishing) and the 3rd edition of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders (Cambridge University press) published this year. He has served for a number of years as the Editor of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders and the Encyclopedia of Autism. He has been an n Associate Editor of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and the American Journal of Psychiatry and now serves as Editor of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities. He has served as co-chairperson of the autism/intellectual disabilities committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In addition to having directed the internationally known autism clinic he also served as director of autism research at Yale before becoming chairperson of the Department. Dr. Volkmar has been the principal investigator of three program project grants including a CPEA (Collaborative Program of Excellent in Au

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Science, University of Illinois

… → 2013

Psychology, Yale Univeristy

… → 1999

Psychology, Young children's responses to discrepant social communications., Stanford Uinviersyt

… → 1976

Medicine, Stanford University

… → 1976

Psychological, Dendritic complexity and environmental Enrichment, University of Illinois

… → 1972