Darold Treffert is a psychiatrist in the behavioral health department and research director of the Treffert Center at St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He has been doing research on savant syndrome since 1962.
Darold Treffert
Psychiatrist
St. Agnes Hospital
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