Joseph Piven is Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and director of the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also director of the NIH Autism Center of Excellence Network’s Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS). He served on the American Psychiatric Association committee that wrote the new definition of autism spectrum disorder for the DSM-5.
Joseph Piven
Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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