Silvia De Rubeis

Assistant professor
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Silvia De Rubeis is assistant professor of psychiatry at the Seaver Center for Autism Research and Treatment at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

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