Catherine Lord

Director, Center for Autism and the Developing Brain
Weill Cornell Medicine

Catherine Lord is distinguished professor of psychiatry and education at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in diagnosis, social and communication development, and intervention in autism.

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