User:RBCanty/sandbox Catherine Lord

Catherine Lord, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology in Pediatrics and Psychiatry as well as the DeWitt Wallace Senior Scholar at Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University. Dr. Lord has studied autism spectrum disorder focusing on management and diagnostics. She was involved in the creation of both the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule and the Autism Diagnostic Interview (ADI-R). She is the founding director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain.

Dr. Lord received a B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles in 1971 and a Ph.D. in (field) from the Harvard University in 1976. She has completed a clinical internship at Division TEACCH at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a licensed clinical psycologist and in employed by the Weill Cornell Medical College at Cornell University as Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Pediatrics and the DeWitt Wallace Senior Scholar.

She has authored over 275 publications and her research has been funded by federal programs (such as the United States Department of Defense and the United States Department of Health & Human Services), national programs (such as the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke, and the National Institutes of Health), as well as private programs and foundations (such as the Autism Intervention Research Network on Behavioral Health, Autism Speaks, and the Simons Foundation).

In 2013, she was awarded the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Distinguished Career Award.