Jed Elison, PhD

Jed Elison is the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Development at the Institute of Child Development and in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. He conducted his senior thesis on brain development in children with autism and ADHD in 2004-2005 with the Utah Autism Research Project at the University of Utah, and thus has been doing research on autism from ~20 years. He completed his Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill in 2011 and conducted postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology from 2011 – 2013 before joining the faculty at UMN in 2013. To launch his program of research, he was awarded a Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS) from NIMH. Professor Elison is currently advancing an interdisciplinary program of research, situated at the intersection of infant social cognition, the development of the social brain, and the emergence of clinically impairing behaviors during the toddler and preschool-age periods. He has worked on the Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS) Network since 2007 and has had continual funding from NIH since 2014. Jed is currently the Chair of the Baby Siblings Research Consortium (BSRC).

Disclosures:

Financial: Salary- University of Minnesota and Honorarium for FSU Summer Institute

Non-Financial: None