The Integrated Mental Health Treatment Guidelines for Prescribers in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Please join us for the next presentation in our 2022-2023 Duke Center for Autism Speaker Series! Our speaker will be Jennifer McLaren, MD, associate professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and The Dartmouth Institute at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. McLaren is the medical director for the New Hampshire Bureau of Developmental Services and the Chief Medical Advisor for the National Center for START services. Dr. McLaren's clinical practice focuses on caring for children, adolescents and adults with autism and neurodevelopmental disabilities. She is the director of the Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental Service Program at Dartmouth Health. Dr. McLaren has several grants focused on enhancing and expanding services for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder in New Hampshire. She is also part of the Vulnerable Children's Research Group at The Dartmouth Institute. The aim of this group is to improve mental health and social services for vulnerable children and their families through research, policy, partnerships with people with lived experience, and clinical services.