Bryna siegel biography sample

Dr. Bryna Siegel has a Ph.D. in Child Development () from Stanford University. She has spent her career working in the fields of autism diagnosis and treatment bringing a developmental perspective to both a research and clinical understanding of this disorder. Her career at Stanford spanned 14 years as a graduate student, post-doctoral fellow, research associate, and senior research associate.

For 24 years Dr. Siegel served on the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, as an assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor of child and adolescent psychiatry where she founded and headed its Autism Clinic, taught medical students, and supervised child psychiatry and child neurology fellows in her clinic. During her years at UCSF, she wrote four books, numerous chapters, research abstracts and papers, and normed and published a screening test for autism, and participated in the standardization of the APA’s diagnosis of autism, DSM-III-R and DSM