Schedule is subject to change.

  • 8:00 am - 8:20 am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
  • 8:20 am - 8:30 am: Opening
  • 8:30 am - 9:45 am: Poster Sessions (2)
  • 9:45 am - 10:05 am: Break

Trainee talks 

  • 10:05-10:15  Items related to repetitive behaviors and play may place females at a disadvantage for screening positive for autism – S. Hu
  • 1:15-10:25 Seizures and Pediatric Brain Tumors: Understanding Medical and Sociodemographic Risk Factors and Neuropsychological Impact – A. Shah    
  • 10:25-10:35 Pre-Pregnancy Anxiety and Depression as Predictors of Obstetric Complications: An Analysis of The All of Us Research Program National Database – A. Sinyan
  • 10:35-10:45 THC Vaping During Pregnancy Disrupts Neurodevelopment and Induces Chronic Structural and Functional Brain Changes in Offspring – L. Guyer 

BREAK 

Staff/faculty talks 

  • 10:50-11:00 Creating a Community: The Association of Belonging with Mental Health Symptoms Among Autistic Adolescents  - J. Becker
  • 11:00-11:10 AAV9-DARS2 Gene Therapy Rescues Pathology in Spinal DARS2-Deficient Mice – A. Holmes     
  • 11:10-11:20 NIH Toolbox for Cognitive Assessment in Individuals with Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome – R. Xu
  • 11:20-11:30 From Evidence Mapping to Platform Analysis: A Scoping Review-Informed Descriptive Observational Study of Concussion Content on Social Media – A. Jawed 

Meet Our Keynote Speaker

Dr. Rachel Reetzke headshot.

Presentation Title: From Examination Rooms to Living Rooms: Measuring Autism-Relevant Behaviors with AI-Driven Methods

Bio: Rachel Reetzke, PhD, CCC-SLP, is Director of the EEG Core and a faculty member in the Center for Autism Services, Science and Innovation, and the Center for Movement Studies at Kennedy Krieger Institute, and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Leveraging behavioral, neuroimaging, and biosensor methods, Dr. Reetzke’s research characterizes early developmental trajectories and predictors of different neurodevelopmental outcomes to advance early assessment and intervention efforts. A recipient of the 2023 ASHA Early Career Contributions in Research Award, Dr. Reetzke’s work has been funded by the U.S. Department of Defense Autism Research Program, the National Institutes of Health, the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, Kennedy Krieger’s Goldstein Innovation Grant, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Wendy Klag Center for Autism & Developmental Disabilities Pilot Grant.