Special Seminar: Improving Individual Outcomes for Autistic People: Methodological Strategies and Current Evidence

Dr. Susan Faja is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a Research Associate at Boston Children's Hospital. She earned her bachelor's degree in neuroscience from the University of Michigan and her doctoral degree in child clinical psychology from the University of Washington. As a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in neuroscience, Dr. Faja is uniquely positioned to employ interdisciplinary methods to improve the lives of autistic people. Her research focuses on understanding social and cognitive functioning, evaluating novel interventions and assessment tools, and investigating individual differences in brain development and intervention response. She is the recipient of an NIMH BRAINS award to examine the early development of executive control among autistic toddlers and preschoolers and a K99/R00 Career Development Award (K99/R00HD071966) to examine the response of autistic children to a novel executive control intervention. She directs the consortium-wide clinical workgroup the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials and co-founded the Adolescent/adult, LGBTQ, Love, and Intimacy in Autism-Northeastern CollaborativE (ALLIANCE) network.