Jennifer Foss-Feig is assistant professor of psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and faculty member at the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment in New York.
Jennifer Foss-Feig
Assistant professor
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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