Send a text CORRECTION: Dr. Bryna Siegel led one of several field sites involved in validating the DSM-III-R and DSM IV diagnostic criteria for Autism while professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. She was NOT the lead of the DSM Autism field trials, a position held by Fred Volkmar, MD (Yale University) Dr. Bryna Siegel is a Developmental Psychologist (PhD Stanford, 1980) who has co-founded one of the earliest US Autism Clinics (Stanford,1983), then founded and led the Autism Clinic at University of California, San Francisco from the late 1980s to early 2010s, serving as Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry there. She has authored five books on autism by peer-reviewed publishers, written several chapters and research articles, and over 100 research abstracts on autism, and headed two DSM field-trial sites for the validation of diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorders. Over the past ten years, she founded and has served as Executive Director of the Autism Center of Northern California which provides training to clinical psychology graduate students considering a career in autism, focusing on refining a public health model for affordable, university-quality autism diagnostics and patient training to low income families living with autism. In the last 40 years, Dr. Siegel has lectured and trained teachers, therapists, parents and fellow academics across the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Her most recent book is The Politics of Autism (Oxford University Press, 2018). BrynaSiegelPhD@gmail.com Executive Director, Autism Center of Northern California Professor, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, UCSF (Ret.) 870 Market Street, Suite 401, San Francisco, CA 94102 T: 415-391-3417 / www.ACNC.org/ www.BrynaSiegel.com https://brynasiegel.com/about.php
