Zachary J. ("Zack") Williams, BS
Co-Founder, Autism PROMnet Joint MD/PhD Candidate at Vanderbilt University Pronouns: He/Him/His Zack Williams is an autistic MD/PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Graduate Program and Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University, as well as the co-founder of Autism PROMnet. He is also an affiliate of the Vanderbilt University Frist Center for Autism and Innovation, a member of the Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health (AIR-P) Autistic Researchers Review Board, and co-chair of the INSAR Autistic Researchers Committee. He received his bachelors in Psychology from Yale University, where he was heavily involved in autism research at the Yale Child Study Center. Zack's research focuses on the sensory manifestations of autism in adulthood, the assessment and treatment of co-occurring physical and mental health problems in autistic adults, and the development of novel questionnaires to assess core and associated features of the autism phenotype. As a psychiatrist-in-training, Zack is particularly interested in using PROMs and other outcome measures to improve routine mental health care, and he hopes to one day develop a comprehensive system of measurement-based psychiatric care specifically for autistic adults. He has also authored a number of PROMs himself, many of which are freely available within the Autism PROMnet measure repository. You can follow him on Twitter at @QuantPsychiatry.
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Hillary K. Schiltz, PhD
Co-Founder, Autism PROMnet Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Dr. Hillary Schiltz is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently working with Dr. Catherine Lord and Dr. Carla Mazefsky to develop a self-reported measure of loneliness for autistic adults using PROMIS guidelines. Hillary completed her Clinical Psychology Internship on the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Assessment Track at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Marquette University and her MS in Child Development from the University of California, Davis, and she is a graduate of the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) program. Hillary’s research interests center upon the measurement, trajectories, and mechanisms of well-being among autistic youth and adults within various family and social contexts. Hillary greatly enjoys being involved in the autism research community; she has been an active member of Student and Trainee Committee (STC) of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) for the past three years and is the current Co-Chair of the STC.
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Ellie A. Kaplan-Kahn, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Autism Research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Dr. Ellie Kaplan-Kahn is a psychology postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Autism Research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Dr. Kaplan-Kahn received her Ph.D. in School Psychology at Syracuse University and completed her Clinical Psychology Internship on the Autism track at CHOP. While on internship, she also completed the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) program. She is currently working with Dr. Benjamin Yerys to develop a comprehensive transition to adulthood program at CHOP. Dr. Kaplan-Kahn’s research interests include using participatory research methods to improve the measurement of QoL outcomes among transition-age autistic youth.
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Hannah E. Morton, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Oregon Health & Science University Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Dr. Hannah Morton is a neurodivergent postdoctoral fellow at Oregon Health & Science University working in Dr. Joel Nigg's ADHD research lab. Her research examines neurocognitive development and environmental stressors that impact social expectations and outcomes for autistic and ADHD youth. Hannah also has a particular interest in diagnostic validity and measurement precision related to the experiences of autistic youth and young adults. Her work in this area includes developing a measure of bullying victimization for autistic and neurodivergent youth—the Assessment of Bullying Experiences questionnaire (ABE).
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Kashia A. Rosenau, PhD
Assistant Professor, UCLA Department of Medicine Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Dr. Rosenau is a developmental psychologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at UCLA. She is also the Training Director for the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (UC-LEND) program and the Clinical Director of the UC-LEND Clinic. Her work focuses on cognitive behavioral therapy for gender diverse neurodivergent adults and increasing access to knowledgeable providers. Dr. Rosenau is collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to improve primary care for autistic individuals and is actively working to improve inclusive disability curriculum in medical and dental schools.
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Shuting Zheng, PhD, BCBA
Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSF Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Dr. Zheng currently is a postdoctoral scholar at UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Her research interests are around profiling developmental heterogeneity in autism and identifying novel treatment targets to promote treatment individualization, with a focus on mental health. Dr. Zheng devotes efforts to measurement development and psychometric analyses, with the goal to promote high-quality measures for screening, diagnosis, and progress monitoring in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders across diverse samples. Dr. Zheng is also an active member of the Cultural Diversity Committee of International Society for Autism Research.
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