People | Center for Research In Autism, Intellectual, and Other Neurodevelopmental Disabilities

Zakia Alavi

Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, Medical Education

Colleen M. Allen

President and CEO
Autism Alliance of Michigan

Melissa Allman

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience Program

Andrea Amalfitano

Dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

Lindsay Athamanah

Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education

Atikah Bagawan

Student Affiliate
Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Jenna Beffel

Student Affiliate
Department of Human Development and Family Studies

Gary Bente

Professor, Director of the Center for Avatar Research and Immersive Media Applications (CARISMA)
Communication

Dr. Andrea Benyovszky

Director of the Conductive Learning Center
School of Education, Aquinas College

Subir Biswas

Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Denice Blair

Education Team Co-Manager
MSU Museum

Michael Boivin

Professor
Department of Psychiatry, Department of Neurology & Ophthalmology

Emily Bouck

Professor
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Ryan Bowles

Associate Professor
Department of Human Development and Family Studies

Matthew Brodhead

Assistant Professor
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Susan Weber Buchholz

Associate Dean for Research
Director-PhD Program

Alex Burt

Professor, Clinical Psychologist and Behavioral Geneticist
Department of Psychology

Tamara Bush

Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Daniel Campbell

Assistant Professor
Pediatrics and Human Development

Courtney Carignan

Assistant Professor
Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

John Carlson

Professor
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Karis Casagrande

Student Affiliate
Department of Psychology

Christina Chan

Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

June Chen

Former Hegarty Fellow

Eunsoo Cho

Assistant Professor
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Stacy Clifford

Former Hegarty Fellow

Charles "Lee" Cox

Professor and Neurophysiologist, Chair of Physiology
Department of Physiology

Yuehua Cui

Professor
Department of Statistics and Probability

Sarah Louise Curtiss

Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Kellie P. Dean

President and Owner
Dean Transportation

Pallav Deka

Assistant Professor and PhD Pipeline Program Coordinator
Health Promotion and Risk Reduction

Laura Dilley

Associate Professor
Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Sarah N. Douglas

Associate Professor
Department of Human Development and Family Studies

Amy Drahota

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology

Todd Elder

Associate Professor
Department of Economics

Keith English

Professor and Chair
Pediatrics and Human Development

Isabella Felzer-Kim

Student Affiliate
Department of Kinesiology, College of Human Medicine

Jodene Fine

Associate Professor
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Marisa Fisher

Associate Professor
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Kyle Frost

Student Affiliate
Department of Psychology

Barbara Given

Interim Associate Dean for Research, University Distinguished Professor Emerita
Nursing

Ian Gray

C-RAIND Co-founder and Former Vice President of Research and Graduate Studies

Amanda Hampton Wray

Assistant Professor and Director of the Brain Systems for Language Lab
Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Mona Hanna-Attisha

Pediatrician, Hurley Children's Hospital & Assistant Professor
Pediatrics and Human Development

Jonathan Hardy

Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

Janet Hauck

Assistant Professor
Department of Kinesiology

Kristin Houck, M.S., CRC

Student Affiliate
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Edward Hurvitz

Professor and Chair, James W. Rae Collegiate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
University of Michigan

Anthony Ianni

Motivational Speaker
Michigan Department of Civil Rights

Scott Imberman

Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Department of Educational Administration

Brooke Ingersoll

Associate Professor and Director of the MSU Autism Lab
Department of Psychology

Rebecca Irvine

Former Hegarty Fellow

Florian A. Kagerer

Associate Professor
Department of Kinesiology

Rebecca Kammes

Department of Human Development and Family Studies

Hyun-Ju Kang

Former Hegarty Fellow

Dana Kanhai

Student Affiliate
Department of Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education

Jean Kerver

Assistant Professor, Nutritional Epidemiologist, Registered Dietitian
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Kelly L. Klump

Professor
Department of Psychology

Rebecca Knickmeyer

Associate Professor, Co-director of C-RAIND
Pediatrics and Human Development , Institute for Quantitative Health Sciences

Arjun Krishnan

Assistant Professor
Department of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Michael J. Leahy

University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, C-RAIND co-founder and inaugural Co-director
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Heekyung Lee

Student Affiliate
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Gloria K. Lee

Professor and Director of the Master of Arts in Rehabilitation Counseling
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Mei-Hua Lee

Assistant Professor
Department of Kinesiology

Yuemei Lu

Department of Kinesiology

Jed Magen

Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Psychiatry

Troy Mariage

Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Special Education Program
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Devin McAuley

Professor and Director of the Cognitive Science Program
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience Program

Ilce G. Medina Meza

Assistant Professor
Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering

Dar Meshi

Assistant Professor
Department of Advertising + Public Relations

Sharon Milberger

Director, Michigan Developmental Disabilities Institute (MI-DDI)
Wayne State University

Deborah Moriarty

Professor of Piano and Chair of the Piano Area

Kendra Moyses

Senior Educator, Children and Youth Institute
MSU Extension

Sriram Narayanan

Professor
Department of Supply Chain Management

Amy Nasamran

Research Project Manager
Counseling, Educational Psychology, & Special Education (CEPSE)

Nicole Neil

Former Hegarty Fellow

Mackenzie Norman

Student Affiliate
Educational Psychology and Special Education

Amy Nuttall

Assistant Professor
Department of Human Development and Family Studies

Lauren O'Connell

Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician
Pediatrics and Human Development

Dionne O'Dell

Associate Director of Arts and Cultural Management
Outreach and Engagement, Theatre

Cynthia Okolo

Professor
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Christiana Okyere

Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Esther Onaga

Faculty Emeritus
Human Development and Family Studies, MSU

Nigel Paneth

University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, inaugural C-RAIND Co-director
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Jiyoon Park

Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Karin Pfeiffer

Associate Professor
Department of Kinesiology

Joshua Plavnick

Associate Professor and Director of the Early Learning Institute
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Derek Polischuk

Associate Professor and Director of Piano Pedagogy
Department of Music

Matthew Pontifex

Assistant Professor
Department of Kinesiology

Jeremy Prokop

Assistant Professor
Pediatrics and Human Development Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Tongbin Teresa Qu, Ph.D., P.E.

Associate Professor
School of Planning, Design, & Construction

Paul Quinlan

Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Department of Psychiatry

Rajiv Ranganathan

Assistant Professor
Department of Kinesiology, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Zoie Reed

Graduate Student and Advocate
Central Michigan University

Kristin Rispoli

Assistant Professor
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Brian Schutte

Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Department of Pediatrics and Human Development

Jeff Searl

Associate Professor
Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders

John Shinsky

Associate Dean of Community Impact and Professor
Grand Valley State University

Carolyn Shivers

Former Hegarty Fellow

Lori Skibbe

Associate Professor
Department of Human Development and Family Studies

Brian Smith

Associate Professor and Director of Lansing Clerkship
Department of Psychiatry

Alicia Strain

Student Affiliate
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Diondra Straiton

Student Affiliate
Department of Psychology

Rita Strakovsky

Assistant Professor
Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition

Connie Sung

Associate Professor
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Nicole Talge

Assistant Professor
College of Human Medicine, Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Katharine Thakkar

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology

Barbara Thompson

Assistant Professor
Pediatrics and Human Development

Erica Tobe

Director of Children and Youth Institute
Human Development and Family Studies

Adrea Truckenmiller

Assistant Professor
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Jane Turner

Professor
Department of Pediatrics and Human Development

Alexa H. Veenema

Associate Professor
Department of Psychology & Neuroscience

Courtney E. Venker

Assistant Professor
Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Daniel Vogt

Assistant Professor
Pediatrics and Human Development

Martin Volker

Associate Professor, Co-director of C-RAIND, Director of C-RAIND Research Assessment Support Unit
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education