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Connor Kerns and Roma Vasa
University of British Columbia, Kennedy Krieger Institute - John Hopkins University
Dr. Kerns is an Assistant Professor of Psychology, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, and Director of the Anxiety, Stress and Autism Program (ASAP) laboratory at the University of British Columbia. Prior to this appointment, she as an Assistant Research Professor at the AJ Drexel Autism Institute from 2013 – 2018. She completed her doctoral training in clinical psychology at Temple University and predoctoral internship at the AI DuPont Hospital for Children.
Dr. Kerns has expertise in the assessment and treatment of anxiety and stress-related disorders in children with autism spectrum disorder. Her research considers essential questions regarding how anxiety and stress-related conditions in autism spectrum disorder are defined and differentiated, and the implications of these definitions to clinical and epidemiological research. Dr. Kerns’ research also aims to improve clinical practice, by providing guidelines and measures for determining when someone with ASD is experiencing anxiety or trauma and by effectively treating these conditions in community settings. Dr. Kerns has received grant funding from the Autism Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health as well as private foundations to conduct her research. She has also published extensively on the overlap, assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders in ASD, including numerous articles, chapters and the book: Anxiety in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence Based Assessment and Treatment, co-edited with Patricia Renno, Philip C. Kendall, Jeffrey W. Wood, and Eric A. Storch
Dr. Vasa is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and the director of education and training at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Vasa is the director of education and training at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. In her clinic, she sees children and adolescents with a variety of psychiatric disorders with specific focus on anxiety. Dr. Vasa is board-certified, and an active member of the Maryland Regional Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Vasa has conducted extensive research on psychiatric outcomes after pediatric traumatic brain injury. More recently, her research focuses on brain-behavior relationships in pediatric anxiety disorders. She is the primary investigator of an fMRI study investigating the neural correlates of three common childhood anxiety disorders: separation anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and social phobia.
Recorded on July 25, 2019
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