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Collaborating Sites

Data collection for the ABC-CT will take place across five sites:

  • Duke University
  • Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Children's Hospital Los Angeles
  • University of Washington
  • Yale University

All of these sites are overseen by faculty members who are highly experienced in multi-site collaborative clinical research in children with ASD using the methods to be utilized for this project.

Duke University - Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D.

Collaborating Implementation Site Director
Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D.
Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D., Duke Collaborating Implementation Site (CIS) Director. Dr. Dawson is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, and Neuroscience and Director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development at Duke University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on recognizing and understanding the neural bases of the earliest manifestations of autism and early interventions that can improve outcomes. Her laboratory pioneered the use of electrophysiological measures with very young children with autism to study the brain basis of impairments in social and language development. She is an expert in the use of EEG measures to assess brain function in individuals with ASD and has been the PI on a NIH-funded randomized clinical trial that utilized EEG as an endpoint. She co-led the team that developed and empirically-validated the first behavioral intervention for infants and toddlers with autism (Early Start Denver Model). Dr. Dawson is currently Co-PI on a program of clinical trials research evaluating the efficacy of umbilical cord blood therapy for reducing core symptoms of ASD using eye-tracking and EEG as surrogate endpoints. She regularly collaborates with other autism researchers from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from genetics to animal models to community dissemination research.

Learn more about Dr. Dawson.