Cheryl Klaiman

Cheryl Klaiman is a Professor in the Division of Autism and Related Disorders within the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and Director of Clinical Research Operations at the Marcus Autism Center. She was the director of our NIH Autism Center of Excellence Clinical Assessment Core and she is responsible for clinical characterization of individuals enrolled in the various research studies, contributing to best estimate diagnoses and training other staff psychologists, post-doctoral fellows and psychology interns as well as research assistants on diagnostic and other assessment tools.

Cheryl Klaiman has been working in the field of autism spectrum disorders since 1993, graduating with her PhD from McGill University in 2003. She completed her pre- and post-doctoral internship at the Yale Child Study Center. She was an Associate Research Scientist at Yale for 6 years prior working at the Children’s Health Council where she was the Director of the Autism and Developmental Disabilities multidisciplinary team.