Peter Szatmari, M.D.

Affiliation

Offord Centre for Child Studies, Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University

Mailing Address

Offord Centre for Child Studies
CHEDOKE SITE
Patterson Building, Room 207
Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5

Tel: (905) 521-2100 ext. 77367
Fax: (905) 574-6665
E-mail: szatmar@mcmaster.ca

Appointments, cross appointments, fellowships

  • Director, Offord Centre for Child Studies
  • Professor, Dept of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
  • Professor - Associate Member, Dept of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Research Interests

  • Autism
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Genetics
  • Epidemiology
  • Child Psychiatry
  • Evidence Based Health Care

Publications

  1. Szatmari, P. et al. (2007). The Autism Genome Project Consortium: Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements. Nature Genetics, 39(3), 319-328.
  2. Georgiades, S., Szatmari, P., Zwaigenbaum, L., Duku, E., Bryson, S.E., Roberts, W, Goldberg, J. & Mahoney, W. (2007). The structure of the autism symptom phenotype: A proposed multidimensional model. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 46(2),188-196.
  3. Feuk, L., Kalervo, A., Lipsanen-Nyman, M., Skaug, J., Nakabayashi, K., Finucane, B., Hartung, D., Innes, M., Kerem, B., Nowaczyk, M.J., Rivlin, J., Roberts, W., Senman, L., Summers, A., Szatmari, P., Wong, V., Vincent, J.B., Zeesman, S., Osborne, L.R., Cardy, J.O., Kere, J., Scherer, S.W., & Hannula-Jouppi, K. (2006). Absence of a paternally-inherited FOXP2 gene in developmental verbal dyspraxia. American Journal of Human Genetics, 79(5), 965-72.
  4. Mitchell, S., Brian, J., Zwaigenbaum, L., Roberts, W., Szatmari, P. (2006). Early language and communication development of infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Developmental and Behavioural Pediatrics, 27(2 Suppl), S9-78.
  5. Szatmari, P., Georgiades, S., Bryson, S.E., Zwaigenbaum, L., Roberts, W., Mahoney, W.J., et al. (2006). Investigating the structure of the restricted, repetitive behaviours and interests domain of autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47(6), 582-590.

Books

Szatmari P. A Mind Apart. Understanding Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome Guilford Press, New York City. 2004

 

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