Agenda
SESSION I: ETIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF AUTISM
8:30 - 8:35am Opening Remarks
Marie McCormick, MD, ScD
Chair, Immunization Safety Review Committee
8:35 - 9:00 Neurobiology and neuropathology of autism
Margaret Bauman, MD
Department of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
9:00 - 9:30 Etiology of autism and NIH research
Marie Bristol-Power, PhD
Special Assistant on Autism
Office of the Director, NICHD
National Institutes of Health
9:30 - 10:00 Diagnosis and assessment of autism
Fred Volkmar, MD
Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology
Yale Child Study Center
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:45 Epidemiological evidence on rates of autism and time
trends
Eric Fombonne, MD, FRCPsych
Reader in Epidemiological Child Psychiatry,
Institute of Psychiatry
King's College London
10:45 - 11:00 Trends in students with autism in IDEA programs
Louis Danielson, PhD
Director of Research to Practice Division
Office of Special Education Programs
Department of Education
11:00 - 11:45 Discussion
Discussion Panel:
Kathryn Carbone, MD
Chief, Laboratory of Pediatric and Respiratory Viral Diseases
DVP/OVRR/CBER/FDA
Ezra Susser, MD
Division of Epidemiology
Columbia University
Karin Nelson, MD
Senior Investigator, Neuroepidemiology Branch, NINDS
National Institutes of Health
11:45 - 12:30 Lunch
SESSION II: MMR/ IBD/ AUTISM HYPOTHESIS
12:30-1:30pm Hypothesis and data linking MMR/IBD/autism
Andrew Wakefield, MD
Royal Free & University College Medical School, United Kingdom
Scott Montgomery, PhD
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
1:30 - 2:00 Overview of epidemiological studies examining MMR, IBD, and
autism
Michael Stoto, PhD
Chair, Department of Epidemiology
George Washington University
2:00 - 2:30 New data and research findings regarding the link between
MMR, bowel symptoms, and autism
Eric Fombonne, MD, FRCPsych
Reader in Epidemiological Child Psychiatry
Institute of Psychiatry
King's College London
2:30 - 2:45 Break
2:45 - 3:45 Discussion
Discussion Panel:
Brian Ward, MD
Associate Professor (Medicine & Microbiology), McGill University and Montreal
General Hospital Research Institute
Kathryn Carbone, MD
Chief, Laboratory of Pediatric and Respiratory Viral Diseases
DVP/OVRR/CBER/FDA
Fred Volkmar, MD
Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology
Yale Child Study Center
Karin Nelson, MD
Senior Investigator, Neuroepidemiology Branch, NINDS
National Institutes of Health
3:45 - 4:00 Study of autism and the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting
System (VAERS)
Jane Woo, MD, MPH
Fellow, Vaccine Safety Branch
Division of Epidemiology
OBE/CBER/FDA
4:00 - 4:30 Public Comment Session
4:30 Adjourn
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