International Meeting For Autism Research

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IMFAR

International Meeting For Autism Research

November 9 - 10, 2001

San Diego, California

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear Colleagues

We are pleased to announce that plans are now under way for the first annual

International Meeting For Autism Research (IMFAR). The meeting, a satellite

event of the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, will take place in San Diego,

California on November 9–10, 2001.

As currently conceived, IMFAR is a two-day scientific meeting comprised of

keynote presentations as well as slide and posters sessions All types of

research, from molecular biology, to neuropsychology, to treatment research

are to be represented at the meeting. Funding for this meeting is

underwritten collaboratively by Cure Autism Now, the M.I.N.D. Institute and

the National Alliance for Autism Research.

A Call for Abstracts will be issued shortly. The Program Committee will soon

begin the selection of keynote presenters and to organize the abstracts into

cohesive sessions.

Please reserve the dates of this important meeting. We would greatly

appreciate your assistance with the distribution of this announcement to all

of your colleagues who have an interest in autism research.

For more information, please email to barbara.david@....

With kind regards,

IMFAR Planning Committee

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Program Committee:

Amaral, Ph.D

Margarel Bauman, M.D.

Diane Chugani, Ph.D.

Edwin Cook, Jr., M.D.

Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D.

Fombonne, M.D.

Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D.

Francesca Happé, Ph.D.

Tom Insel, M.D.

Ian Lipkin, M.D.

Lord, Ph.D.

Merzenich, Ph.D.

Karin , M.D.

Sally Ozonoff, Ph.D.

Margaret Pericak-Vance, Ph.D.

Joe Piven, M.D.

Sally , Ph.D.

Schultz, Ph.D.

n Sigman, Ph.D.

Helen Tager-Flusberg, Ph.D.

Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.

Yolken, M.D.

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