CANDI Education & Training 2021 Speakers
January 12, 2021
Philip Feinberg
MD/PhD Candidate, UMass Chan Medical School (Schafer lab)
Autism Speaks Predoctoral Fellow
Presentation title: “Microglial-derived innate immune mechanisms governing neural circuit excitability”
January 26, 2021
Julie LeMoine
IRC Enterprise Scholar, sponsored by Microsoft
PhD Candidate, UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering (Ireland)
Neurobehavioral Technologies Program Team member, E.K. Shriver Center
Presentation title: “The Digital Helper Research”
February 9, 2021
Isha Jalnapurkar, MD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School
Julie LeMoine
See above
Mo Modarres, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School
Presentation title: “Virtual Reality Extension of the PEERS Program for Young Adults”
February 23, 2021
Curt Deutsch, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School
Presentation title: “Embryologically-Derived Phenotypes in Autism and Schizophrenia”
March 9, 2021
David Cochran, MD PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Pediatrics, UMass Chan Medical School
Barrett Family Term Chair in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Medical Director, Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (CANDO)
Director, Neurobehavioral Technologies Program, E.K. Shriver Center
Presentation title: “Why would I change my entire protocol halfway through my grant? A data-informed approach to study development”
March 23, 2021
David Kennedy, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School
Co-Director, Child and Adolescent Neurobehavioral Initiative (CANDI)
Director, Division of Neuroinformatics
Presentation title: “What Can Diffusion MRI Tell Us About Premature Birth?”
April 6, 2021
Adrian Fanucci-Kiss
MD Candidate (2022), UMass Chan Medical School
Presentation title: “Welcome to CANDI Land: A Survival Guide for Coding Conundrums”
April 20, 2021
April Bowling, ScD
Assistant Professor, Public Health and Nutrition, School of Health Sciences, Merrimack College, MA
Presentation title:
“Using Physical Activity Interventions to Improve Overall Quality of Life in Youth with ASD”
May 4, 2021
Julie Bates, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School
Program Director, ReproNim: A Center for Reproducible Neuroimaging Computation
Presentation title: “The ReproPub: An Introduction to the Re-Executable Publication”
June 1, 2021
Steve Hodge, MA
Instructor, Psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School
Data Analyst, ReproNim: A Center for Reproducible Neuroimaging Computation
Presentation title: “Help Me Help YOU”
June 15, 2021
Jean Frazier, MD
Robert M. and Shirley S. Siff Endowed Chair in Autism,
Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, UMass Chan Medical School
Professor, Psychiatry and Pediatrics, UMass Chan Medical School
Executive Director, E.K. Shriver Center
Co-Director, Child and Adolescent Neurobehavioral Initiative (CANDI)
September 7, 2021
Satra Ghosh, PhD
Principal Research Scientist, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, M.I.T., &
Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School
Presentation title: “Sensors and The Brain”
October 21, 2021
Travis Faust, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Neurobiology (Schafer Lab), UMass Chan Medical School
Presentation title: “Microglia-Astrocyte Crosstalk During Activity-Dependent Synaptic Remodeling”
November 2, 2021
Jonathan D. Santoro, MD
Medical Director, Neuroimmunology and Demyelinating Disorders Program
Attending Physician, Division of Neurology
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, USC
Presentation title: “Down Syndrome Disintegrative Disorder”
November 16, 2021
Curt Deutsch, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School
Presentation title: “Down Syndrome Dementia Research”
November 30, 2021
Christopher Hemond, MD
Assistant Professor, Neurology, UMass Chan Medical School
Presentation title: “Emerging MRI biomarkers in Multiple Sclerosis”
December 4, 2021
Julie LeMoine
IRC Enterprise Scholar, sponsored by Microsoft
PhD Candidate, UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering (Ireland)
Neurobehavioral Technologies Program Team member, E.K. Shriver Center
Presentation title: “AR Digital Helpers for ASD Research”