Dr. Nancy Minshew received her medical degree from the Washington University School of Medicine and she was trained as a behavioral child neurologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. Currently, Dr. Minshew is the director of the National Institutes of Health Autism Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh and of several other grants on new interventions in autism and is a professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where she has worked since 1984. For more than 25 years, Dr. Minshew has been an internationally renowned expert in the cognitive, neurological and genetic bases of autism. Dr. Minshew