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John Constantino

Chief of behavioral and mental health
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

John N. Constantino is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist and chief of behavioral and mental Health at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, as well as professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine. He is an international leader in autism trait phenotyping, sex differences in autism, and endophenotypic analyses.

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