James McPartland
Yale Child Study Center, Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health
Dr. Jamie McPartland is the Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry and Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center. He is a practicing licensed child psychologist and Director of Yale’s Developmental Disabilities Clinic. Dr. McPartland’s career has focused on understanding brain function to improve diagnosis and therapeutic support for autistic people, and he leads a national consortium working to identify biomarkers for autism. Dr. McPartland has published 7 books and more than 210 articles on autism. He is active in public scientific communication and has been featured in popular media, such as the A&E docuseries, The Employables. Dr. McPartland has received numerous awards for his research, and he was named the top-funded international autism researcher during the past decade. The objective of Dr. McPartland’s clinical and scientific work is to maximize the quality of life for autistic people and their families.