IACC Full Committee Meeting Agenda
Friday, October 22, 2010
10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern
The William H. Natcher Conference Center
45 Center Drive
Conference Rooms E1/E2
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
This meeting will also be available to the public by live videocast. The materials for the meeting can be found here.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. | Onsite Registration Desk Opens |
| 10:00 | Call to Order and Opening Remarks Thomas Insel, M.D. Director, National Institute of Mental Health Chair, IACC |
| 10:10 | Review and Approval of July 16, 2010 Minutes |
| 10:15 | Alexa Posny, Ph.D. Assistant Secretary of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education |
| 10:45 | Wandering and Autism: The Need for Data and Resources Wendy Fournier President, National Autism Association Lori McIIwain Board Chair, National Autism Association |
| 11:15 | The CLASS Act Richard Frank, Ph.D. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services |
| 11:45 | Neural Signatures of Autism Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D. Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry, Child Study Center and Child Neuroscience Lab, Yale University |
| 12:15 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 | Public Comments |
| 1:30 | Meeting Update: NICHD Workshop "Disparities in the Identification of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders," August 19, 2010 Alice Kau, Ph.D. Health Scientist Administrator, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Regina Smith James, M.D. Director, Division of Special Populations, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |
| 1:40 | Meeting Update: NIEHS Workshop "Autism and the Environment: New Ideas for Advancing the Science," September 8, 2010 David Armstrong, Ph.D. Senior Investigator, Chief of the Laboratory of Neurobiology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
| 1:50 | Meeting Update: "Genetic Risk Factors for Autism Spectrum Disorders: Translating Genetic Discoveries into Diagnostics" Symposium, September 1-2, 2010 Stephen Scherer, Ph.D. Director, The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children Director, McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Toronto |
| 2:00 | Meeting Update: Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) Annual Meeting, September 12-14, 2010 Gerald Fischbach, M.D. Scientific Director, Simon's Foundation Autism Research Initiative |
| 2:10 | Research Update: Study of Health Outcomes in Autistic Children and Their Families Ann Wagner, Ph.D. Chief, Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of Mental Disorders Branch, National Institute of Mental Health |
| 2:20 | Data Sharing Update: National Database for Autism Research (NDAR) Michael Huerta, Ph.D. Director, National Database for Autism Research, National Institute of Mental Health |
| 2:25 | Committee Business
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| 2:30 | Break |
| 2:45 | Committee Business
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| 5:00 | Public Comments Discussion Period |
| 5:30 | Closing Comments and Adjournment |