Professor; McGill University
Eric Fombonne, MD, FRCP, is a professor of psychiatry and an epidemiologist. He directs the child psychiatry division at McGill University in Canada and the psychiatry department at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, where he played a crucial role in the launch of its autism clinic. Fombonne is also the Canada Research Chair in child psychiatry. His research focuses on epidemiological investigations of childhood mental illness and related risk factors, focusing on the epidemiology of autism. Fombonne is a permanent member of a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study section and has been appointed to a special National Institute of Health (NIH) advisory board for autism research programs. In October 2002 he became the president of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of Canada (APCAPC).
Projects
- The ASD Demonstration Project: Neuroimaging and Function
- The ASD Demonstration Project: Next-Generation Genome Sequencing and Identification of Rare DNA Variants
- The ASD Demonstration Project: Clinical Utility Studies
- The ASD Demonstration Project: Identifying Early Behavioural Biomarkers
- The ASD Demonstration Project: Sleep: A Comorbidity Across Disorders
- The ASD Demonstration Project: Translation of Genomic Discoveries into Clinical Practice
