Jessica Brian

Clinician Investigator, Holland Bloorview & Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Jessica Brian is a Psychologist and Clinician-Investigator at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto. She co-leads the Autism Research Centre through the Bloorview Research Institute. Jessica received her Ph.D. from the clinical-developmental program at York University which included a full-year internship at the Princeton Child Development Institute in New Jersey. She has been heavily involved in several multi-site research programs aimed at understanding the emergence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in infancy and development across childhood, including the Canadian Infant Siblings Study. Jessica co-developed the Social ABCs, which is a naturalistic parent-mediated intervention for toddlers with ASD or related social-communication challenges.

Also see: Researcher in Focus: Spotlight on Dr. Jessica Brian