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Lawrence Fung, MD, PhD | Director, Stanford Neurodiversity Project | Director, Neurodiversity Clinic | Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Dr. Lawrence Fung is an associate professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is the director of the Stanford Neurodiversity Project, director of the Neurodiversity Clinic, and principal investigator at the Fung Lab. His work, which focuses on autism and neurodiversity, traverses from multi-modal neuroimaging studies to a new conceptualization of neurodiversity and its application to clinical, educational, and employment settings. His lab advances the understanding of neural bases of human socio-communicative and cognitive functions by using novel neuroimaging and bioanalytical technologies. Using a community-based participatory research approach, his team devises and implements novel interventions to improve the lives of neurodiverse individuals by maximizing their potential and productivity. His work has been supported by various agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, Autism Speaks, California Department of Developmental Services, California Department of Rehabilitation, and philanthropy. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Cornell University and his M.D. from George Washington University. He completed his general psychiatry residency, child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship, and postdoctoral research fellowship at Stanford.
This session introduces a working definition of neurodiversity-informed care (NIC) and its goals, principles, target populations, and key components, grounded in input from neurodivergent community members and providers in clinical settings.
Participants will learn to
(1) understand NIC definitions and principles
(2) understand the two-stage consensus process that produced the framework. The session is designed for clinicians (especially mental-health and primary-care), researchers, and community stakeholders, including neurodivergent individuals and family members.
Over the past year, the team has employed the Delphi method by designing the first version of the NIC survey with a working group and distributing it to the community stakeholders. Following the results from the community, the survey was refined and distributed to experts in the neuroidversity field. Synthesizing feedback across rounds, we finalized the NIC framework that now anchors this session’s content.