Speaker #1: Christopher McDougle, M.D.

Title: Psychopharmacology of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Director, Lurie Center for Autism and Nancy Laurie Marks Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Christopher McDougle, MD, Received a B.A. in Chemistry from Valparaiso University in 1981 (with Highest Distinction) and an M.D. from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1986 (with Highest Distinction). He subsequently completed a residency in psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine in 1990 and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center in 1995. 

Dr. McDougle is an internationally recognized expert in the neurobiology and neuropsychopharmacology of childhood-onset neuropsychiatric disorders including autistic disorder. His research interests also include the etiology and pathophysiology of intellectual disability syndromes.  

Dr. McDougle has been awarded two Young Investigator Awards from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), an Independent Investigator Award from NARSAD, a grant from the Theodore and Vada Stanley Research Foundation, a Research Unit on Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) contract, a RUPP-Psychosocial Intervention (PI) grant, an Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) Network grant from NICHD and additional research grants from the National institutes of Health for the study of autism and related pervasive development disorders.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants should be able to identify the target symptoms associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), such as irritability, motor hyperactivity/inattention, and anxiety, that may improve with pharmacological treatment.  

2. Participants should be able to identify the medications that may be effective for treating these target symptoms associated with ASD.  

3. Participants should be able to identify the potential side effects associated with medications used to treat these target symptoms associated with ASD.  

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