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2007 Speaking of
Children Lecture Series
Autism - A Developmental Pediatrics Perspective Monday, August 27th, 7:00-9:00 pm Dr. Adrian Sandler is Medical Director, Olson Huff Center for Child Development, at Mission Children’s Hospital in Asheville, NC. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. A native of Zimbabwe, Dr. Sandler was educated at the University of Cambridge, England. He did his Pediatrics residency at Duke University Medical Center and Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics fellowship with Dr. Mel Levine at UNC Chapel Hill. Since September 1994, he has been the director of a busy regional multi-disciplinary center for children with disabilities, where his responsibilities have been largely in program development and service provision. Dr. Sandler's research interests have included placebo effects, autism, attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, spina bifida and megalencephaly. He and his team published the first clinical trial of secretin in autism. He has published several peer-reviewed studies, and authored a book entitled Living with Spina Bifida (UNC Press). Dr. Sandler is very active in the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is immediate past-Chairperson for the Committee on Children with Disabilities and served on the Task Force on CAM. He is a member of a number of professional societies, including the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, and the Society for Research in Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida. He has been an invited speaker and faculty member at AAP meetings and at many other national and international conferences. He is engaged in ongoing clinical work and training initiatives in Belize related to children with disabilities. He is happily married and has two young adult
sons. As his mid-life crisis develops, he engages enthusiastically in
running, skiing, tennis, biking, music-making and dancing. What he lacks in
talent he makes up for in vigor.
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