Global Senior Leaders Representatives

Global Senior Leaders: National Representatives


INSAR established a new Global Senior Leaders Committee (GSL) in April 2019. The main purpose of the committee is to create a global network of senior leaders in autism research that will support INSAR's value of representing and serving a diverse and global community. The National Representatives will serve as their Country’s point of contact for the INSAR Board about issues of national or international importance relating to autism research in their country.

 

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GSL National Representatives

Eastern Mediterranean Regional Leader: Naoufel Gaddour, MD

  • Watfa AL-Mamari, MD, FRCPC - Oman

African Regional Leader: Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige, MBChB, MMed, PhD

  • Muideen Bakare, MD, FMCPsych - Nigeria

  • David Griessel, MB Ch B , MMed(Ped) - South Africa

North America Regional Leader: Evdokia Anagnostou, MD

  • David B. Nicholas, PhD - Canada

  • Maureen Samms-Vaughan, MD, PhD - Jamaica

  • Joseph Buxbaum, PhD - United States of America

South America Regional Leader: Alexia Rattazzi, MD

  • Sebastian Cukier, MD - Argentina

  • Cristiane Silvestre de Paula, PhD - Brazil

  • Gabriela Garrido, MD - Uruguay 

South East Asia Regional Leader: Gauri Divan, MD

  • Sheffali Gulati, MBBS (AIIMS), MD (AIIMS), FAMS, FIAP, FIMSA - India

  • Sunita Maleku Amatya, MD - Nepal

  • Samanmali P. Sumanasena, MD - Sri Lanka

European Regional Leader: Jan Buitelaar, MD, PhD

  • Herbert Roeyers, PhD - Belgium

  • Anneli Kylliainen, PhD - Finland

  • Christine Freitag, PhD - Germany

  • Louise Gallagher, MB BCh BAO, MRCPsych, PhD - Ireland

  • Idan Menashe, PhD - Israel 

  • Antonio Persico, MD - Italy

  • Hilde Geurts, PhD - The Netherlands

  • Roald A. Øien, PhD - Norway

  • Agnieszka Rynkiewicz, MD, PhD - Poland

  • Joaquin Fuentes, MD - Spain

  • Sven Bolte, PhD, MA - Sweden

  • Jonathan Green, BA, MA (Cantab), MBBS (Lond), FRCPsych., DCH. -United Kingdom

  • Tatjana Zorcec, PhD - Republic of Macedonia

Western Pacific Regional Leader: Cheryl Dissanayake, BSc Hons, PhD Monash, MAPS

  • Mark Stokes, PhD - Australia 

  • Chongying Wang, DPhil/PhD - China

  • Wing Chee So, PhD - Hong Kong S.A.R.

  • Susan Shur-Fen Gau, MD, PhD - Taiwan

  • Cong Tran, PhD - Vietnam

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