About Conference

AGENCY FOR STRATEGIC INITIATIVES, Autism Research Institute (USA), AUTISM CHALLENGES CENTER, PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE "PREVENTIVE MEDICINE", MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE "IMMUNCULUS"

Dear colleagues!

The 2^nd International Research and Practice Conference in Moscow dedicated to the wide range of problems of autism takes place from 10^th to 12^th of April 2014.

This is the first conference of such scale in Russia, which gathers world’s key specialists in autism – today’s most challenging "epidemic”.

We will have the honour to attend the lecture of James Adams, professor at Arizona State University and co-chair of ARI's Scientific Advisory Committee. Among other foreign speakers are: dr. David O. Black, Ph.D, licensed psychologist with great clinical experience, pediatric neuropsychologist, the head of Neuroscience branch in children’s development at National Institute of Mental Health; Professor Eric Hollander, M.D., director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, director of the Autism and Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Program at Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY) with a talk on diagnostic innovations and approaches in psychiatry; Professor Richard Frye, Director of Autism Research at Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute, will address the meeting on biomedical innovations in the area of treatment of autism. Jill M. Young, Ph.D., BCBA-D with a lecture about such a form of observational learning as  Video modeling. Her clinical experience in early-stage integrated diagnostics will shared by Dr. of Psychology, clinical psychologist, expert in DENVER Model of early-stage surgery Tali Gev, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

The Conference is organized together with The Autism Research Institute (US). ARI’s director, Stephen M. Edelson, Ph.D., is co-chair of the organizing committee, as well as famous Russian scientist, professor Alexander Poletaev. The agenda of the conference covers the most urgent areas in world’s research of autism.

The main subjects of the conference:

•   Epidemiology of autism
•   Search of potential biomarkers for the laboratory diagnostics of autism. Presentation of the first stage of the research project of the Medical Research Centre "Immunculus".
•   The correction and the therapy of autism, master classes and trainings from the key specialists.
•   Pathogeny of autism from the point of view of the Genetics and Epigenetics.
•   Autism in Behavioral Sciences
•   Autism in Neuroscience
•   International professional community of autism. Experience exchange.

Representative of the Organizing Committee: Ms. Anastasia Glukhareva

Phone: +7 (495) 780-72-87; E-mail: info@prev-med.ru