Ami Klin Explained

Ami Klin
Nationality:American
Occupation:Psychologist
Notable Works:An agenda for 21st century neurodevelopmental medicine: lessons from autism

Ami Klin is an American psychologist who studies autism. He is the first chief of autism and related disorders at the Marcus Autism Center, a wholly owned subsidiary of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Klin will also be a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at Emory University and director of the Division of Autism and Related Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Pediatrics at the Emory University School of Medicine.

Background and education

Klin has obtained BA degrees in Psychology, Political Science and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel in 1983 and his PhD in Psychology at University College London in 1988 under the co-supervision of Uta Frith.[1] He is board-certified in Clinical Psychology.[1]

Klin has worked as an autism and Asperger syndrome researcher and a Harris Professor of Child Psychology and Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center,[2] [3] [4] where he has been active since 1989.[5]

Awards

Klin has received numerous professional and academic awards and recognition including Researcher of the Year from Business New Haven in collaboration with Yale, Pearl H. Rieger Award for Excellence in Clinical Science from the Rush Medical Center in Chicago, and the Robert McKenzie Prize for Outstanding PhD Thesis from the University of London.[1] [6]

Publications

Klin has published research in numerous medical journals and is the author or co-author of the books:

Lectures

Klin was the keynote speaker at the 14th Annual Alabama Autism Conference on February 27, 2015. His lecture was Bringing Science to the Community: A New System of Healthcare Delivery for Infants and Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Curriculum vitae: Ami Klin, Ph.D. . Yale Child Study Center . 2008-01-15 . January 2009 .
  2. Web site: 2009-03-30. WebMD.com. Ami Klin: Reaching Children With Autism. 2010-01-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20100123051429/http://blogs.webmd.com/breaking-news/2009/03/ami-klin-reaching-children-with-autism.html. 23 January 2010. dead.
  3. Web site: Hitti, M . WebMD.com . Autism: New Clue to Earlier Detection . 2010-01-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091231162108/http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/news/20090329/autism-new-clue-to-earlier-detection . 31 December 2009 . live .
  4. Web site: Yale Child Study Center . Ami Klin, Ph.D. . 2010-01-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100618180455/http://www.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/faculty/klin.html . 2010-06-18 .
  5. Web site: Hughes, V. 2008-05-06. Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. Ami Klin & Warren Jones: Melding art and science for autism research. 2010-01-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20100713230851/https://sfari.org/spotlights/-/asset_publisher/lVf7/content/ami-klin-warren-jones-melding-art-and-science-for-autism-research?redirect=%2Fspotlights. 2010-07-13. dead.
  6. Web site: People & Blogs: Ami Klin Ph.D. . This Emotional Life. PBS. 2010-01-15.
  7. Web site: Ami Klin, Harris Professor of Child Psychology and Psychiatry: Biography . Yale School of Medicine . 15 July 2019 . 14 January 2024.

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