AUTISM CANADA / AUTISM CALGARY
2010 CONFERENCE

CHANGING THE COURSE OF AUTISM

Whether you are a parent, educator, medical professional, researcher or individual dedicated to improving the life of individuals with autism, you will not want to miss:

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CHANGING THE COURSE OF AUTISM

Friday, October 1 and Saturday, October 2, 2010
Mount Royal University
Roderick Mah Centre for Continuous Learning
Calgary, Alberta

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This 2-day conference, including a clinician workshop, features some of the most highly respected names in the autism community, including:

Keynote speaker: Martha Herbert, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and a Pediatric Neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Herbert is a member of the MGH Center for Morphometric Analysis, and an affiliate of the Harvard-MIT-MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. She is also the director of the TRANSCEND Research Program. Dr. Herbert has received a number of important awards, including being named a Cure Autism Now Research Scholar, a Cure Autism Now Innovator Award and appointed Director of the Brain Development Initiative for the Cure Autism Now Foundation.

Derrick MacFabe, MD is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Kilee Patchell-Evans Autism Research Group, Departments of Psychology (Neuroscience) and Psychiatry (Division of Developmental Disabilities) at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario. His groups published research concerning the possible role of gut bacterial metabolites in autism has been listed among the top 50 scientific discoveries in Canada by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Other speaker includes: Richard Frye, MD, PhD, Evodokia Anagnostou, MD, Wendy Edwards, MD, Doreen Granpeeshed, PhD, Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, Dennis Debbaudt, Heather McCracken, Laurette Janak and Lindsay Moir.

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Changing the Course of Autism

will feature lectures related to clinical and basic science, educational therapies, advocating for autism and much more.

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