Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School/Children's Hospital

Keynote: “National Institutes of Health MRI Study on Normal Brain Development: What Is It & What Will We Learn?” [see description & schedule]

Dr. Waber is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Senior Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Boston. She is also Senior Neuropsychologist in the Learning Disabilities Program in the Department of Neurology at Children's Hospital, Boston.

Dr. Waber is a developmental neuropsychologist who has a long standing interest in learning disorders and in the neuropsychological impact of medical illnesses in children. She has been principal investigator on numerous funded grants in these areas. Dr. Waber has authored more than 80 peer reviewed papers, book chapters and editorials, serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals in the area.  She has also served on numerous NIH review panels. Her clinical practice focuses on learning disorders in school age children.

Workshop: "The Developing Brain: How Poverty Shapes Cognition & School Function" [see workshops page for schedule]

Description: Why do children living in poverty so consistently perform more poorly than their more economically advantaged peers on tests of cognition and school achievement? This workshop will review findings from contemporary developmental cognitive neuroscience that provide new perspectives on this very troubling and seemingly intractable problem. Participants will have opportunities to learn about these new perspectives and discuss potential implications for educational approaches.

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