Autism Speaks Names VUMC an Autism Treatment Network (ATN) Site: AUCDigest submission

2008

Autism Speaks awarded a 3-year grant to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) as part of its expansion from 5 to 15 ATN sites across the US and Canada. ATN treatment and research centers are dedicated to improving medical care for children and adolescents with autism. "Being part of the national ATN will facilitate our naturally collaborative nature in the Medical Center to bring the highest level of care across medical disciplines for children with autism and their families," said Pat Levitt, Ph.D., director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development (VKC) and the Annette Schaffer Eskind Chair. "We expect that our initiative will help families in their continuing struggles with the medical and behavioral complexities of autism." Participating institutions benefit from access to standardized protocols and assessments, a national database, and a community of autism physicians and empirically derived treatment practices. Principal investigators for Vanderbilt are Wendy Stone, Ph.D., director of the VKC Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD), and Beth Malow, M.D., director of the Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Center and a VKC Investigator. For information contact [email protected]

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