Fred Volkmar
Director, Yale Child Study Center
Fred R. Volkmar M.D., is the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology and Director at the Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine. He also serves as the Chief of Child Psychiatry at Yale New Haven Hospital. A graduate of the University of Illinois and Stanford Dr. Volkmar is the primary author of the DSM-IV autism and pervasive developmental disorders section. He has authored several hundred scientific papers and has co-edited numerous books. He has served as associate editor of the Journal of Autism, The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and the American Journal of Psychiatry and currently is the editor of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
